Learn how to do Specification by Example
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- 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
agile Archive
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Stop automating manual test scripts!
Posted on July 19, 2010 | 1 CommentCreating 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... -
How to do agile when we only have 50 crap developers?
Posted on July 5, 2010 | 19 CommentsWhy do people complaining that they can’t do agile development with 50 crap developers not see that the problem is in the second part of that statement, not the first? I got an e-mail last week that shows the point perfectly: We discussed whether an agile approach is right, and... -
Anatomy of a good acceptance test
Posted on June 16, 2010 | 10 CommentsThe 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... -
Agile in a Start-up Games Development Studio
Posted on May 19, 2010 | 4 CommentsAt the SPA 2010 conference today in London, Harvey Wheaton from Supermassive games talked about applying an agile process in a start-up games development studio. After leaving EA in 2008, he set up his own games development studio in an agile way, which is unusual for the games industry. The... -
The perfect agile test management tool
Posted on May 4, 2010 | 1 CommentDavid 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...

