I love Weekend Testing and the chance it gives to collaborate with and learn from testing practitioners around the world. However, weekends are my only time to play with my donkeys and catch up with friends and family, so I rarely have time. In past years, I was able to participate in Weeknight Testing Europe, […]
Read MoreDevOps Dojo at Agile Roots 2015
This is the second of possibly a few posts about my “aha moments” at Agile Roots. In addition to pairing with Janet on two sessions (see previous post), I was lucky enough to pair with Amitai Schlair (see his awesome Agile in 3 Minutes podcasts) for a DevOps Dojo. The code’s ready. Wait, what is […]
Read MoreA tester’s life
I work every day as a tester on the Pivotal Tracker team. Some people think that because I’ve written books and speak at conferences I must be a full time consultant, but my passion lies in being a member of a great team and doing hands-on testing. It’s easy for me to go around telling […]
Read MoreFacing Fears, Pairing
This post benefits from a bit of context: my day job is as a tester on the Pivotal Tracker team. Tracker is a project tracking tool with an awesome API. Our API doc is awesome too. It’s full of examples which are generated from the automated regression tests that run in our CI, so they […]
Read MorePausing to reflect
In the past couple months I blogged about the spike that JoEllen Carter (@TestingMojo) and I have been doing on automating UI smoke tests for our team’s iOS app: Pairing on a Mission and Continuing the Mission… and continually improving. Today we did a tech talk for our team reporting on what we’ve done so […]
Read MorePairing On a Mission
Most of us have more we’d like to do than the time to do it, even if we’re in an experienced agile team working at a sustainable pace. A couple of us that work on our iOS team wanted to try automating some UI regression tests. The programmers write their code using TDD with good […]
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