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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
Google ads opinion of agile development
Google ad selection algorithms seem to be getting weirder and weirder. Here is what came out today related to a mail thread on agile development.
best practices Archive
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How to sell TDD to non-technical stakeholders?
Posted on December 11, 2007 | 2 CommentsHow do we sell the test-driven approach on a wider scale to business analysts and customers? How do we get them involved in that process? It seems that a lot of the problems and confusion obstructing that effort come out of the misleading name of the term “acceptance tests”. Dan... -
The waterfall trap for “agile” projects
Posted on December 4, 2007 | 11 CommentsJeff Patton from Thoughtworks held a very interesting session at XpDay last month in London, focusing on a common misconception that causes “agile” projects to fall into the same trap that the waterfall ones typically do. Incremental is not iterative Using a very interesting combination of pop music and rock... -
Golden rule of web caching
Posted on November 29, 2007 | 7 CommentsEffective content caching is one of the key features of scalable web sites. Although there are several out-of-the-box options for caching with modern web technologies, a custom built cache still provides the best performance. -
Who should write acceptance tests?
Posted on November 23, 2007 | No CommentsAcceptance tests should reflect customer’s perception of when the job is done, so they must be defined by a customer or a business analyst. That still leaves us with a question who should translate that definition into FIT/FitNesse tables. There was an interesting discussion on this topic at the XPDay... -
Effective user interface testing
Posted on September 25, 2007 | 2 CommentsUser interface tests are a bit tricky – it is easy to get carried away and waste quite a lot of time, without getting any real benefits. However, if planned properly, automated UI tests can have a great effect on the project. Here are a few tips on how to...
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