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 […]
Read MoreTesting 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 […]
Read MoreChoosing 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 […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
Read MoreJigsaw 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 […]
Read MoreJigsaw 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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreProgrammers 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 […]
Read MoreBook 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 […]
Read MoreATDD 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 […]
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