View into test planning at the release level
View into test planning at the release level One of the common pitfalls of agile teams is “Forgetting the big picture”. Lisa Crispin and I wrote an article for informIT in […]
Upcoming public courses and talks
I’m getting ready to go on a 2 month road trip through Europe and South Africa. I thought I’d put my schedule up here so folks can join me at […]
Graphic Recording of Awareness Session at Agile Testing Days
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]