Janet Gregory and I offer our new five hour introduction to agile testing, based on our books, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, and More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team. “Agile Testing Essentials” is for anyone working on or with a software delivery team who wants to learn the basic principles […]
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Recently I did a short webinar with Agile Testing Days “AgileTD Mondays” series on “Transferring Testing Skills to the Whole Team. It’s about 20 minutes long, I hope it will inspire you to spread some testing love around your agile team! How do you help non-testers on the team learn testing skills? I’d love to […]
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My day got off to a bright start with day 2 of Lean Coffee, it was a full room in spite of the fun social events of the previous evening! I had no more sessions to do myself, so I could relax and focus on learning. Diana Larsen Lifts Off! I have six pages of […]
Read MoreThe Twitterverse and other social media continue to host many discussions on topics such as “Do testers need to code?” As Pete Walen points out in his recent post, the “whole team” approach to delivering software, popularized with agile development, is often misunderstood as “everyone must write production code”. The “Whole Team Approach” in practice […]
Read MoreI pair on all my conference sessions. It’s more fun, participants get a better learning opportunity, and if my pairs are less experienced at presenting, they get to practice their skills. Big bonus: I learn a lot too! I’ve paired with quite a few awesome people. Janet Gregory and I have, of course, been pairing […]
Read MoreMy team currently has more than 20 programmers, and two testers. One of those testers is also the testing and support manager, and I also help with support. In terms of the quintessential “tester-developer ratio”, that sounds a bit dire. But we take a whole-team approach. The programmers pair all the time, they are excellent […]
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