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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 […]

Just ask!

May 20, 2013 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, exploratory testing / No Comments

Our team is working on an epic to provide some new features in both our product’s UI and our API. Today, I tested a delivered user story for the API. When I add things to our product via the API, I like to check them out in the UI. The basics of the story worked, […]

Fun with Easter Eggs

March 9, 2013 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, fun / No Comments

While searching around for 2012 tax records, I found a file with printouts of the “Easter Egg” my team put into our website back in 1999. This Easter Egg was on the error screen. If you typed a particular search value, you’d get a page that looked like our standard error page, with the text: […]