Designing good Cucumber feature files
Alister Scott wrote a really nice paper on designing good specifications with examples/bdd scenarios/acceptance tests – focused on Cucumber, but applicable to other tools as well. He captured how to evolve horrible scripts into something quite useful. I strongly recommend reading it, especially if you’re working with UI tests. Now…
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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... -
Acceptance tests are not a by-product of development
Posted on April 28, 2010 | 4 CommentsLong term maintenance cost is one of the biggest issues that teams face today when implementing agile acceptance testing. Tests that are just written and automated without any long term planning are guaranteed to cost you more than they are worth. But then again, a properly designed testing framework saves... -
Liz Keogh: learning through testing
Posted on April 16, 2010 | No CommentsSpeaking at the BBC QA Day today, Liz Keogh said that learning is often a constraint on software projects. Software projects deal with many risks and unknowns as they are mostly about new product development. Doing a project which took eight months again, with the same people and same technology,... -
Are tools necessary for acceptance testing, or are they just evil?
Posted on March 1, 2010 | 7 CommentsWhile doing research for my new book, I was very surprised to find out that Jim Shore gave up on acceptance testing. I use his “describe-demonstrate-develop” process description all the time in my workshops, so I guess I better stop doing that. Jim Shore wrote: My experience with Fit and... -
Next agile testing UG in London: Cucumber on February 4th
Posted on January 8, 2010 | No CommentsNext agile testing user group evening in London will be on the 4th February, at the new Skills Matter offices. I’ll be presenting Cucumber a tool for behaviour-driven development and agile acceptance testing. I will demonstrate how to use Cucumber for Java, .NET and Ruby applications, talk about new Cucumber...
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