agile testing Archive

  • Creating an Executable Specification from existing manual test scripts might seem as a logical thing to do when starting out with Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing. Such scripts already describe what the system does, and the testers are running them anyway, so automation will surely help. Not really...

    Stop automating manual test scripts!

    Creating an Executable Specification from existing manual test scripts might seem as a logical thing to do when starting out with Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing. Such scripts already describe what the system does, and the testers are running them anyway, so automation will surely help. Not really...

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  • The long term benefits of agile acceptance testing come from live documentation – a description of the system functionality which is reliable, easily accessible and much easier to read and understand than the code. In order to be effective as live specification, acceptance tests have to be written in a...

    Anatomy of a good acceptance test

    The long term benefits of agile acceptance testing come from live documentation – a description of the system functionality which is reliable, easily accessible and much easier to read and understand than the code. In order to be effective as live specification, acceptance tests have to be written in a...

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  • Just got this question from a blog reader: I am evaluating whether to use FitNesse with FitSharp for acceptance testing some web services. In reading your book and searching online, I could not find a template or recommended approach to doing this. The following is a working idea on the...

    Using FitNesse to test web services

    Just got this question from a blog reader: I am evaluating whether to use FitNesse with FitSharp for acceptance testing some web services. In reading your book and searching online, I could not find a template or recommended approach to doing this. The following is a working idea on the...

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  • David Evans and I facilitated a session on designing a killer agile test management tool last week at the UK Test Management Forum, with the goal of learning what are the biggest currently unsolved problems for agile teams in the area of testing at the moment. So for any tool...

    The perfect agile test management tool

    David Evans and I facilitated a session on designing a killer agile test management tool last week at the UK Test Management Forum, with the goal of learning what are the biggest currently unsolved problems for agile teams in the area of testing at the moment. So for any tool...

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  • Here are the details on the May agile testing evening in London at Skills Matter. I hope you can join us for this fun workshop. May 4th, 18:30 to 20:00 Hands-On Root-Cause Analysis Even the best teams encounter costly, puzzling problems. Leaders and others concerned with improving software quality and...

    May agile testing evening in London: Hands-on root cause analysis

    Here are the details on the May agile testing evening in London at Skills Matter. I hope you can join us for this fun workshop. May 4th, 18:30 to 20:00 Hands-On Root-Cause Analysis Even the best teams encounter costly, puzzling problems. Leaders and others concerned with improving software quality and...

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