Contents tagged with Agile QA
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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 Illig got mentioned because of tools they have written to integrate the Watir functionality at development or test time. Travis wrote RubyTestExecutor which hooks Ruby/Watir scripts up with NUnit. Dustin wrote WatirNUt which is a utility that creates a portable, testable NUnit binary wrapper around Watir test scripts and supporting files.
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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:
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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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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.
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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.
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Bumper Stickers for Testers
Saw this on StickyMinds today: Bumper Stickers for Testers
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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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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.
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Presenting at XP Users Group in Portland, OR
I will be presenting "Writing Testable Code: Where XP meets QA"
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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).