Gojko Adzic

Lisa Crispin gave a keynote at Agile Testing Days conference in Berlin today, discussing the topic of staffing an agile team with testers, in particular whether any tester can be on an agile team or are agile testers different from the rest. Crispin and Janet Gregory interviewed a lot of testers while working on their book and found that lots of people they interviewed had similar experiences and traits. According to Crispin, an agile tester mindset is such that they: Continue Reading »

There’s a new community web site dedicated to agile testing in the UK, where you’ll find announcements of new events, videos from the past events and a forum to discuss these ideas with the community. Point your browser to www.agiletesting.org.uk.

It was a real pleasure to speak at the 23rd Test Management forum on Wednesday – I hope that you found the talk and the discussion interesting and fun.

Here are the presentation and the links:

• B2 Bomber crash (”all the systems were functioning normally”)
• Tank exercise (34% requirements matching)
• Crevasse of Doom talk at QCon 07 (printing in java)
• Agile acceptance testing portal
• UK Agile testing meetings & community
• Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing – my book with Specification Workshops as one of the central themes (also available as a PDF)
• Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs
  by Ellen Gottesdiener
• Acceptance Testing portal with lots of additional resources and a video on the importance of realistic examples and acceptance testing
• Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design by Donald Gause and Gerald Weinberg
• Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein

The agile testing evening sessions at Skills Matter are getting better and better. I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday’s session with an experience report given by Nathan Bain and Anand Ramdeo. Anand and Nathan talked about their work at Global Radio focusing on how they implemented agile testing, and the topic turned out to be so thought-provoking that the presentation often turned into a free discussion and the event lasted twice longer than expected. In spite of that, some attendees complained that it was too short. Luckily the local pub is open till much later than Skills Matter so we continued the discussion there. Continue Reading »

It was a great pleasure to present yesterday on agile testing tools together with Elizabeth Keogh and David Peterson. Here are the links to the tools that we presented:

• JBehave
• FitNesse
• Concordion
• TextTest
• Robot Framework

You can download my slides from http://gojko.net/resources/skillsmatter_20090527_aattools.pdf. David and Elizabeth will probably publish their slides soon on their blogs, http://blog.davidpeterson.co.uk/ and http://lizkeogh.com/.

Thanks a lot to everyone who attended, and I’m really impressed that the room was almost full especially as we had to compete with the final of the Champions league. As more than half of the people were at the previous agile testing events as well, it seems to me that we’re creating a nice community and I hope that you’ll keep coming to future events as well. The plan for the next few months is this:

• 23/6: Testable Software is Good Software by (David Evans and Mike Scott from SQS UK).
• 22/7: Agile Testing: Tools and Approaches (Nathan Bain and Anand Ramdeo)
• 26/8: Fast Track Test-Driven Development – Testify your project (David Evans and Mike Scott)

All events will be free, but up-front registration is required for capacity planning. You can sign up now for the June event at http://skillsmatter.com/event/design-architecture/testable-software-is-good-software.