Tomorrow I’m off to Austin for the Austin Workshop on Test Automation (awta). Every year I’ve wanted to attend this, but this is the first year I’ve made it. I was especially motivated because the subject is Watir. We’ve been using Watir for about 4 years. We have a robust suite of tests and I […]
Read MoreTeaching Values vs. Process
I had the good fortune to be in Salt Lake City last Friday and attend the last 1.5 hours of the Salt Lake City Agile Round Table. Participants included Alistair Cockburn, Kay Johansen, Zhon Johansen, Jeff Patton, Jonathan House, Sean Landis, John Major and other smart people (sorry, I am bad with names!) I got […]
Read MoreTesting Task Cards
From my previous post 12/24, Mykhailo Poliarush asked about testing task cards. I’ve seen several different approaches to planning testing tasks during iteration planning and managing them throughout the iteration. One approach is to use stickers on each development task cards. For example, a yellow sticker could denote the task is ready for testing, a […]
Read MoreTeam Commitment to Quality
This sprint has been an excellent example of why the whole team must commit to quality for the team to succeed. In the past few sprints, we started to slide into the bad practice of having leftover testing task cards that got carried over into the next sprint. Some of these were cards to write […]
Read MoreWelcome to My New Website
I’m transitioning over to this new website. Please visit often and see what is new. You can find links to articles and so on at my old site. I’ll be blogging here too. Stay tuned! And Happy Holidays.
Read More