Gojko Adzic

At the Goosgaggle event last month, David Harvey and I ran an open space session on teaching TDD through exercises effectively. My goal with this session was to learn what are the good exercises, what’s common for them, and why they are effective. There were roughly 20 people in the room so we had a good discussion and lots of great ideas. As with any other open space session, it’s hard to remember who suggested what first so I’m sorry about the rest of this post being more or less anonymous, but here are the ideas we discussed: Continue Reading »

I’m currently interviewing lots of teams that have implemented acceptance testing for my new book. A majority of those interviewed so far have at some point shot themselves in the foot with UI test automation. After speaking to several people who are about to do exactly that at the Agile Acceptance Testing Days in Belgium a few weeks ago, I’d like to present what I consider a very good practice for how to do UI test automation efficiently. Continue Reading »

At the GOOSGaggle event last weekend, Nat Pryce gave a presentation on “System Test Driven Development” — an approach he uses to apply TDD when working with complex heterogeneous infrastructures. Continue Reading »

Today at the GOOSgaggle event in London, Brian Marick gave the presentation “I Think I Finally Understand Mocks”. Nat Pryce said that I was the person most likely to bother with entering the wireless key (64 character random code, they really do take their security seriously at Zuhlke), in order to blog in real time. In order not to disappoint Nat, here goes… Continue Reading »

I’m launching two new Behaviour-Driven Development workshops in late January.

Introduction to BDD is an intensive one day workshop which introduces behaviour-driven development to developers, business analysts and testers. The optional programming module is offered in Java or .NET, with Cucumber to automate BDD scenarios.

Hands-on BDD with Cucumber is a three day workshop which immerses the participants into a project driven by Specification by Example and Behaviour-Driven Development. The workshop is adjusted to fit your business domain and particular needs, so that the participants get real-world experience and instant benefits. It is combines the Introduction to BDD, a day of working on a realistic domain example taken from your recent project or a future phase of a project, and a day of programming exercises for test automation developers. During the workshop, we use Cucumber to manage BDD Scenarios. The programming modules can be either in Java or .NET.

These two workshops are offered at a 20% discount for all bookings made before 31st January 2010. For more information on these and my other workshops, check out the training page.

Both workshops are offered as on-site training only (there are no public workshops scheduled at this time). Contact my company, Neuri Ltd for more information and to book a workshop.