I attended Rob Lambert’s session “Do agile teams have wider awareness fields” at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany in November this year. The ‘doodle’ I have included in this blog is from that session. I learned about this medium from ImageThink who recorded all the keynotes at the Oredev conference in Malmo Sweden, and […]
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Testing the Big Picture
One of the top seven success factors that Lisa Crispin and I talk about in the summary chapter of our book Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams is “Look at the Big Picture”. We talk about using the agile testing quadrants to help think about all types of testing, and how […]
Choosing Functional Test Tools for Large Organizations
In one of my tutorials at StarWest 2011, someone asked the question about choosing tools – specifically functional automation tools. I do believe teams should chose the tools that work best for their application, but sometimes we have to think beyond our immediate project team. As large organizations adopt agile, many are running into a […]
I am a member of the Community of Thinkers
Jean Tabaka, Liz Keogh and others devised this statement and to me, it expresses the power behind a community of like thinkers. Patrick Wilson-Welsh mentions the idea of Network Weaving on his blog, and I like that idea as well; that also resonatated with me. Thank you Jean, Liz, Eric, and others for sharing. ——————————————————————————– A Community of […]
Jigsaw Puzzles & Small Chunks – The Ending
I was not able to finish the puzzle I described in the previous blog during the week I was at the cabin, but I decided to finish the story. One of the reasons iterative & incremental development is so powerful is that we can deliver the highest priority items first. Although I didn’t finish the […]
Jigsaw Puzzles & Small Chunks
One of the hardest things I find to get people to understand is how to think in small chunks when it comes to breaking up features and stories. One company I was recently talking to is still struggling on defining a release scope. They haven’t gotten the idea of thin slices, delivering small pieces and […]
The Power of Personas in Exploratory Testing
There are many great articles and books on exploratory testing and I’m not going to try to explain what other people do better. What I do want concentrate on is the power of approaching your exploratory testing from different persona’s point of view. It occurred to me that I haven’t heard people talk much about […]
Programmers as Testers?
There was an interesting and bit controversial thread on the agile testing yahoo group over the last couple of days. Some people thought that all agile testers should have programming skills. Others thought that programmers cannot possibly be good testers because they don’t consider overall quality. It raised a lot of thoughts in my mind, […]
Book Review – Jonathan Rasmusson “The Agile Samurai”
I first met Jonathan about ten years ago when he was a young programmer eager to prove to the world that he was the best he could be. At that time I was impressed with his willingness to be open to new ideas – even the idea that a tester could be valuable on an […]
ATDD vs. BDD vs. Specification by Example vs ….
At Agile 2010, there were about 20 of us at the AA-FTT (Agile Alliance Functional Test Tools) workshop. The emphasis was on “the state of the practice” of Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD). In one of the breakout sessions, we had an interesting discussion on what we actually meant by ATDD, which made me think […]