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Continuing the mission… and continually improving

November 6, 2014 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, collaborating, learning for testers, test automation, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 5 Comments

In my previous post I described how my teammate JoEllen Carter (@testingmojo) and I have been pairing for an iOS UI smoke test automation spike. By working together, making use of a book, online resources, and examples sent by a colleague in another office, we were getting some traction. However, we ran into a lot […]

Teamwork for building in quality

September 14, 2014 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, agile testing, collaborating, experiments, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 1 Comment

I can’t say it enough: it takes the whole team to build quality into a software product, and testing is an integral part of software development along with coding, design and many other activities. I’d like to illustrate this yet again with my experience a couple days ago. Recently our team has been brainstorming and […]

How to help developers grok testing

January 10, 2014 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, agile testing, collaborating, communicating, experiments, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 7 Comments

I presented a session called “Developers who grok testing: Why I love them and how they mitigate risk” at CodeMash. We did a mini workshop, dividing into groups to brainstorm what devs need to learn about testing in order to grow towards grokking it. How can testers and developers communicate and collaborate better? Take a […]

Codemash: Advanced Topics in Agile Testing Workshop

January 8, 2014 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, agile testing, brainstorming, change, collaborating, communicating, conferences, experiments, impact mapping, Lean Coffee, learning for testers, Uncategorized / 1 Comment

Thanks to the participants in today’s workshop! We tackled quite a few tough testing-related issues that many agile teams encounter. The slides, pictures of all the outcomes such as topics, impact maps and brainwriting pages, are available here. After each table group identified their most burning testing issues, they created SMART goals for each one […]

Improving and Enjoyment

June 23, 2013 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, collaborating, donkeys, fun, learning for testers, magnificence, Whole Team Approach / No Comments

Warning, this post is going to be a bit touchy-feely. But it’s good for us to get that way every so often. In my previous post, I recounted how I’ve been working with my donkey trainer, Tom, to break old, bad habits and learn how to give my donkeys fast, clear feedback. I’ve been practicing […]

Advancing collaboration

June 16, 2013 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, collaborating, communicating, learning for testers, pairing, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 5 Comments

You know how some topic will come up, and suddenly you notice it’s coming up over and over in different contexts? Lately, for me, that topic has been collaboration among roles on software teams. My own team practices a “Whole Team” approach to development, and we testers work closely with the developers on a daily […]