Specification by Example workshops
I’m speaking here:
- Testing and Finance, London, 17 May
- NDC, June 16-18 Oslo
- Agile Testing Days, November 19-22, Potsdam, Germany
testing Archive
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Changing the role of test managers
Posted on October 13, 2009 | 2 CommentsDuring the ‘Agile Quality Management – Axiom or Oxymoron?’ talk at Agile Testing Days today in Berlin, David Evans from SQS talked about several aspects of agile development that often confuse and scare traditional test managers. One of the aspects that was particularly interesting to me is the fact that... -
Are agile testers different?
Posted on October 13, 2009 | 6 CommentsLisa Crispin gave a keynote at Agile Testing Days conference in Berlin today, discussing the topic of staffing an agile team with testers, in particular whether any tester can be on an agile team or are agile testers different from the rest. Crispin and Janet Gregory interviewed a lot of... -
Putting Selenium in the right place
Posted on October 6, 2009 | 3 CommentsAlthough Selenium is an essential trace element, it is toxic if taken in excess. That is what Wikipedia has to say on the chemical element Selenium, but pretty much sums up my feelings about the web testing tool of the same name as well. I like very much how easy... -
Saving the game in enterprise software
Posted on September 28, 2009 | 5 CommentsThe most important take-away idea from CITCON Europe this year for me was probably building ‘save game’ functionality as an integral feature in software systems. Antony Marcano talked about this, not as part of the official programme but over beers which is another example of how informal chatting at conferences... -
An excellent agile testing experience report
Posted on July 23, 2009 | 2 CommentsThe agile testing evening sessions at Skills Matter are getting better and better. I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday’s session with an experience report given by Nathan Bain and Anand Ramdeo. Anand and Nathan talked about their work at Global Radio focusing on how they implemented agile testing, and the topic turned...

