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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
Three user group talks next week
Next week I’m in Oslo and Tallinn and I’ll be doing three user group talks – so this is a nice chance to meet up if you’re in the area. Breaking the TDD mould at XP Meetup, Oslo, Norway, October 24 Busting BDD Myths at NNUG, Oslo, Norway, October 25th…
xpday Archive
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Building a successful agile team
Posted on December 12, 2008 | 1 CommentJohn Rae and James Shiell presented tips and tricks for hiring the right people for an agile team yesterday during their session titled “Building a successful agile team” at XPDay 08 yesterday. Their startup grew rapidly last year, and was almost constantly hiring. The traditional hiring techniques and practices did... -
How do you decide when to pair program?
Posted on December 12, 2008 | 5 CommentsAt the XpDay 08 conference today, I participated in a workshop on pair programming organised by Matt Wynne and Laura Plonka. The participants were spit into several groups, discussing various challenges for the adoption and implementation of pair programming. I was in a group which was given a task to... -
Quality comes from cooperation
Posted on December 11, 2008 | 1 CommentChris Ambler, European test manager for Microsoft games, spoke about how games companies are testing software during his keynote Testing games is not a game – it’s serious stuff at XPDay 2008 today in London. Ambler said that the game industry is from a technology perspective doing much more bleeding... -
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... -
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...
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