-
Learn how to do Specification by Example
I’m speaking here:
- Agile Practitioners 2012, Tel Aviv, Israel, 30-31 January 2012
- Software Passion Summit, Göteborg, Sweden, March 19-20, 2012
- Scandinavian Developers conference, Göteborg, Sweden, April 17, 2012
- Dutch Testing Conference, Bussum, NL, 18 April
- Testing and Finance, London, 17 May 2012
Three user group talks next week
Next week I’m in Oslo and Tallinn and I’ll be doing three user group talks – so this is a nice chance to meet up if you’re in the area. Breaking the TDD mould at XP Meetup, Oslo, Norway, October 24 Busting BDD Myths at NNUG, Oslo, Norway, October 25th…
agile Archive
-
Seven key ideas of real quality assurance
Posted on November 3, 2010 | 1 CommentTom Gilb spoke today at the Next Generation testing conference in London, arguing that testing is only part of the larger area of quality assurance. Gilb said that “real quality assurance” consists of seven ideas which are all clearly lean. “They are frugal, effective, non wasteful and early, which are... -
How Google does test engineering
Posted on October 15, 2010 | 10 CommentsJames Whittaker, test engineering director at Google, talked yesterday at the Agile Cambridge conference on how Google does ‘Test Engineering’. He likened software testing to healthcare – in particular patient care in hospitals. Whittaker started by saying that software development was like manufacturing 20 years ago, and that the cost... -
Bug tracking for agile teams
Posted on October 5, 2010 | 5 CommentsLisa Crispin presented a keynote titled “Limbo lower now: An agile approach to defect management” today at the Agile Testing Days 2010 in Berlin today. She compared defect management to Limbo dancing where the bar is progressively lowered. “We want to lower the bar and reduce defects”, said Crispin. -
Clean Acceptance Tests, August 3rd, central London
Posted on July 26, 2010 | No CommentsThe next meeting of the UK agile testing user group is on the 3rd of August in central London. Here are the details of the talk: Dan Leong on Clean Acceptance Tests This presentation discusses how our agile team renewed our focus and understanding of our acceptance tests when the... -
Guardian pulling the plug?
Posted on July 21, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe Unite union (of the let’s screw BA travellers for several weeks every few months fame) created a Facebook group to stop jobs in the technology department being outsourced and offshored at Guardian News Media Ltd, publisher of the Guardian, the Observer and guardian.co.uk. According to the group web site,...
|
|