testing Archive

  • Here are my slides from the agile testing days 2011 keynote “5 key challenges for agile testers tomorrow” And by popular demand, here is the agile testing donut separately:

    5 key challenges for agile testers tomorrow – slides

    Here are my slides from the agile testing days 2011 keynote “5 key challenges for agile testers tomorrow” And by popular demand, here is the agile testing donut separately:

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  • Attending Belgium Testing Days last month got me thinking about a potentially radical approach to regression testing, mostly inspired by Julian Harty and Nathalie Roseboom de Vries van Delft. This might be an unpolished idea, so bear with me.

    Simulating your way out of regression testing

    Attending Belgium Testing Days last month got me thinking about a potentially radical approach to regression testing, mostly inspired by Julian Harty and Nathalie Roseboom de Vries van Delft. This might be an unpolished idea, so bear with me.

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  • I was very fortunate to attend a workshop on Robot Framework given by Pekka Klarck in London a few weeks ago. I’ve written about Robot basics already on this blog so I won’t repeat myself, but here are some new ideas I picked up at the workshop:

    Robot framework revisited

    I was very fortunate to attend a workshop on Robot Framework given by Pekka Klarck in London a few weeks ago. I’ve written about Robot basics already on this blog so I won’t repeat myself, but here are some new ideas I picked up at the workshop:

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  • James 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...

    How Google does test engineering

    James 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...

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  • Just got this question from a blog reader: I am evaluating whether to use FitNesse with FitSharp for acceptance testing some web services. In reading your book and searching online, I could not find a template or recommended approach to doing this. The following is a working idea on the...

    Using FitNesse to test web services

    Just got this question from a blog reader: I am evaluating whether to use FitNesse with FitSharp for acceptance testing some web services. In reading your book and searching online, I could not find a template or recommended approach to doing this. The following is a working idea on the...

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