Agile and Programming
Nov 25 2008
Michael Bolton won an award for his talk on two futures of software testing. The message of it is in essence for testers to focus on the needs of the business instead of the plan. Even though it’s a presentation it has lots of notes and a lot of nice stuff there that turns testers [...]
Sep 06 2008
It seems like Facebok is pretty agile in how it handles new features and roll outs. According to an article on the High Scalability site they actually do major releases every week. One of the things that struck me was this:
Be Innovative, Not Safe. Fear of failure often shuts down the organizational brain and makes [...]
Aug 12 2008
Found some really interesting stuff about automated testing with a tool they’ve dubbed Swim. It basically uses the tests as online documentation. By abstracting actions to the correct level, and supplying generated screenshots every step of the way, tests can be verified and used as documentation. Through Ole Mortens blog. Check out Jon Udells entry [...]
Feb 04 2007
In my current project we have a fair bit of integration. Loose coupling and all that is excellent, but it does create some challenges:
Integrating systems are only available inside the firewall. Sometimes it is relevant to test and develop outside our normal network.
Different integrating systems have different availability. You can’t rely on all of them [...]