February 25th, 2016
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I’ve had the privilege to work with a several teams and Scrum Masters over the last few years. On many occasions I had some interesting discussions. I’ve combined some of these subjects into one virtual conversation with an imaginary Scrum Master.
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November 23rd, 2015People who are familiar with BDD and ATDD already know how useful the three amigos (product owner, tester and developer) session is for talking about what the system under development is supposed to do. But somehow these refinement sessions seem to drain the group’s energy. One of the problems I see is not having a clear structure for conversations.
Example Mapping is the brainchild of Matt Wynne. He created a simple technique that can steer the conversation into breaking down any product backlog items within 30 minutes.
October 8th, 2015Last week, the first TestWorks Conf was held in Amsterdam. This hands-on conference featured a plethora of test automation tools and allowed the participants to gain practical experience with them. Since we feel and expect that all participants will take next steps towards improving their test automation practices, we decided to take a glance into the future and discuss the future of testing and automation together with Alan Richardson.
In a series of blogposts, we would like to share parts of our vision on testing and automation in the near future. First stop will be: the role of the tester in 2020.
June 12th, 2015We have been building automated acceptance tests using web browsers, mobile devices and web services for several years now. Last week Erik Zeedijk and I came up with the (crazy) idea to implement features for a robot using ATDD. In this blog we will explain how we used ATDD while experimenting with Lego Mindstorms EV3.
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October 17th, 2014People who practice ATDD all know how frustrating it can be to write automated examples. Especially when you get stuck overthinking the preconditions of examples.
This post describes an alternative approach to writing acceptance tests: write them backwards!
October 3rd, 2014September 21st, 2014Last week we had our first Hands-on Test Automation sessions.
Developers and Testers were challenged to show and tell their experiences in Test Automation.
That resulted in lots of in depth discussions and hands-on Test Automation Tool shoot-outs.
In this blogpost we’ll share the outcome of the different sessions, like the famous Cucumber vs. FitNesse debat.
Stay tuned for upcoming updates!
September 7th, 2014Last week I talked to one of my colleagues about a tester in his team. He told me that the tester was bored, because he had nothing to do. All the developers wrote and executed their tests themselves. Which makes sense, because the tester 2.0 tries to make the team test infected.
So what happens if every developer in the team has the Testivus? Are you still relevant on the Continuous Delivery train?
Come and join the discussion at the Open Kitchen Test Automation: Are you still relevant?
April 27th, 2012Couple of weeks ago I realised something. As an Agile tester it’s really hard to communicate bugs! Testers are known for bringing bad news, but it is not easy to do it correctly. Specially when you’re in a Scrum Team and the heat is really on with bugs or issues flying all around.