Things to look out for in your agile (or Agile) adoption
Jonathan Kohl pointed me at a position paper from Brian Marick for the Agile Coach Camp. If you’re in the middle of adopting agile, it’s well worth a read. You can find it here:...
View ArticleSoftware testing, art and productivity
In the Yahoo software-testing list, Shrini Kulkarni stated “…productvity as a term is “bad” for creative work like “testing” or “art”. That makes me to feel that I am a low skilled labour on a...
View ArticleINVESTing in User Stories, revisited
Mike Cohn’s “User Stories Applied” discusses using the INVEST mnemonic as a guide to writing better user stories. I was recently asked to dig up a reference for it, and found this presentation here,...
View ArticleTest automation models, dehumanising testers and Agile dysfunctions
This tweet was forwarded to me yesterday: martinfowler: Manual scripted testing should be a human rights violation It bothered me on a few levels. Firstly, the simplicity of phrasing around manual and...
View ArticleMore agile and software-development Haiku
Time has passed, and I thought it was time to update my thoughts on what’s critical to successful software testing (and development). While originally, I started noting important ideas for agile teams,...
View ArticleEven more agile Haiku
I’ve added a couple more agile haiku. The essence seems to be getting a bit less essential, so I think at some point a refactoring is going to be in order.
View ArticleDoes cucumber suck?
I’ve been having a lot of rants about Cucumber of late, as it’s the new shiny thing for agile teams. Does anyone else have issues with it? I’ve asked all of my programmer friends to convince me of...
View ArticleMore haiku updates
I’ve added some new ones, need to take one out. At some point, there should probably be a bunch of Scaled Agile haiku. See the agile haiku page.
View ArticleTools for thinking about context – Agile sliders reimagined
Philosophically, I’m aligned to the context-driven testing view of the world. Largely, this is influenced by a very early awareness of contextual factors to success in my first job, and the wild...
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How to write a test strategy
I’ve documented my overall approach to rapid, lightweight test strategy before but thought it might be helpful to post an example. If you haven’t read the original post above, see that first. This is...
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