Raji Bhamidipati and I co-facilitated a day-long workshop at ExpoQA Madrid in June. We shared techniques testers can use with their teams to build shared understanding at the product, release, feature, iteration and story levels. Participants worked in teams to try out the various techniques and contribute their own experiences with ways to enable shared […]
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Overcoming test automation challenges
Janet Gregory and I enjoyed participating in the Quality in Agile conference in Vancouver April 20-21. We paired on a keynote: “Do testers need to code… to be useful?” Our opinion in a nutshell: testers need technical awareness to collaborate effectively with all their team members, but our software delivery teams already should have expert […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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I joined the Pivotal Tracker team as a tester on August 13. I felt so lucky to get on board there, it’s a wonderful team, and Pivotal Labs has an amazing culture. But in spite of having amazing helpful teammates, I struggled to get to a point where I felt like I was contributing. Every […]
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