On Friday August 13, I accepted the Agile Alliance’s Gordon Pask award at the Agile 2010 conference in Orlando.
I wasn’t even aware that I had been nominated, so when David Hussman called me at home shortly after 7:30AM on Tuesday August 10 to tell me that I had won, I was beyond surprised. Gobsmacked? Flummoxed? Yes, . . . → Read More: On Winning the Gordon Pask Award at Agile2010
Some years ago I had lunch with a QA specialist who invited me to visit him at work. He wanted to show off how he had used a macro recorder to automate his testing. Over lunch I offered the opinion that test automation is a programming activity. The QA specialist vehemently disagreed with . . . → Read More: Random Thoughts on Record-and-Playback
There’s a discussion going on over on the software-testing discussion group about a customer’s delivery requirement that the software be handed over with an acceptance test script.
I want to illustrate my perspective on this topic with a short story. If stories aren’t your thing, skip to the end of the post. I make my real point . . . → Read More: Acceptance Tests as a Customer Deliverable
“We can’t automate everything. It costs too much.”
I’ve heard that concern—that test automation costs too much—multiple times when talking with folks in the middle of an Agile transition.
They know that automated regression testing is important in an Agile context. But they’re concerned about the costs. And they can’t even imagine getting to a point where all . . . → Read More: Why Test Automation Costs Too Much
So what have I been up to for the last 7 months? There’s the usual stuff: a fair bit of client work, some conferences, and a whole lot of travel: Finland, Germany, Japan, and various locations in the US.
But the most exciting news is that Agilistry Studio is open! We’ve held a bunch of events there . . . → Read More: Look! An Update!
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