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My team is off the spike project we had, and I wanted to share a bit about exploratory tests. The idea is to spike let's say some 3rd party component. Just spiking is good, but not always enough. How to ensure that we transfer the knowledge we acquired...
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First my personal impression - this book is a very good "business case" to introduce   things like automated builds, CI server, DB continuous integration (loved the word CDBI), automated deployment, automated inspection - most of the things...
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I learned from a wise man that celebrating small successes as important as the having big one, if not even more. So today I would like to thank my team for the effort they made in such a short period of time and with a quiet a steep learning curve they...
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Today was a great day. One of the things we do with the team is experiment how we write our test. Experimenting seems the most effective way of figuring out what should be our testing approach. At this point we are mostly doing specification driven tests...
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I am extremely excited to be a part of a team that has deliberately decided to follow the Agile path and TDD way of producing results. Along with that I am learning myself tones. As a team, the decision was made to use strict mocks to understand better...
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Something I have learned from JP Boodhoo lately (and NOT the only thing): Filename: {SomeComponent}Specs     TestFixture: When{specification} SetUp: establish the context Test: Should {expected behaviour} SUT: exercised component   ...
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The goal of the application is to allow specifications for search (criteria’s) to be specified by the client in order to perform a custom search. Figure 1 demonstrates the requirement. I intestinally keep it simple for the sake of the exercise. Where...
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This post is not going to be technical at all - pure theory of how to generate a change in minds of those who cannot accept what agility and test driven development are proposing. One of the biggest questions is "why". Why would someone bother...
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