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Friday, February 17, 2006 9:04 AM

HanselMinutes #4

Scott Hanselman has started a podcast called HanselMinutes to talk tools and utilities. Episode #4 on Continuous Integration caught my attention because of 2 names mentioned during the discussion of the Ruby Watir library. Both Dustin Woodhouse and Travis...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 1:11 PM

Watir Hint for Working with ImageButtons

Dustin, one of my co-workers, ran into a problem accessing the "alt" attribute on image buttons using Watir and discovered a useful trick: Who knows if this will ever be useful to anyone else, but I've been trying to work with imageButtons, which have...
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Friday, April 08, 2005 2:41 PM

Introducing Agile to a Legacy Project

Brian Marick has another great post . This time he talks about how to transition a team working on legacy code to a more agile approach.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:13 AM

Clarke Ching's Secret Ingredient

A teaser from Clarke's book . If you want to know what the secret ingredient is take a look at his Sticky Minds article . Craig interrupted my thoughts, It doesn't surprise me that you are in the mess you are in. My education and experience are in Quality...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:00 PM

Practical Agile Testing

Elisabeth Hendrickson has a great post about the practicalities of agile testing where she takes Brian Marick's breakdown of testing vectors and talks about what to actually do differently to achieve agility in testing. Agile project teams generally reject...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 11:08 AM

Bumper Stickers for Testers

Saw this on StickyMinds today: Bumper Stickers for Testers My favorites: Software Testers: "Depraved minds...Usefully employed." Software Testers: We break it because we care. A good tester has the heart of a developer...in a jar on the desk. Friends...
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Friday, April 16, 2004 8:46 AM

Marick on FIT

Check out Brian Marick's series on FIT if you are at all interested in how this stuff works in real life.
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Monday, March 22, 2004 1:39 PM

When Tests Aren't Tests

There has been a great discussion on the XP and XP-Testing mailing lists about what “tests” are and how Exploratory Testing relates to XP/Agile development. According to James Bach the mission of a tester is “ to learn enough important...
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Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:31 AM

Presenting at XP Users Group in Portland, OR

I will be presenting "Writing Testable Code: Where XP meets QA" Are the XP testing practices sufficient to release products to real end users, or does QA have a significant role in XP and how do we as developers assist QA using the XP values and practices...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:27 AM

Is FIT Testing Useful?

A question came up yesterday as I was explaining the virtues of FIT to the development team (see my previous entry ). The question was “Is FIT testing actually valuable?” The argument being does FIT testing eliminate or reduce the need to...
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