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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 […]

Pairing On a Mission

October 12, 2014 / Lisa Crispin / continuous integration, pairing, test automation, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / No Comments

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 […]

Fun experiments

January 13, 2013 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, agile testing, experiments, magnificence, requirements, test automation, Whole Team Approach / 5 Comments

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 […]

Ideas for Eliciting Examples and Specifications

July 24, 2012 / Lisa Crispin / business analysis, experiments, requirements, specification by example, Stickyminds Blog, test automation / No Comments

Check out my recent Stickyminds article, where I distill some ideas I’ve learned recently from folks such as Declan Whelan, Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman (see the links in the article for more on those wonderful, smart folks.) And my latest Stickyminds article is on how my team has found ease and joy (to borrow […]

“Where Should I Start Looking….”

January 29, 2012 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, test automation, Transitioning to agile, Whole Team Approach / 2 Comments

My friend and excellent agile coach Michele Sliger, co-author of The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility , recently emailed me this question that she hears a lot: “Where should I start looking to learn more about test automation and tooling?” Naturally, I replied with a typically long-winded answer. She must have liked it though, […]

“Bug Statistics Are a Waste of Time”

May 17, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, defect tracking, metrics, shortened feedback loop, test automation / 1 Comment

I was pleased to learn that my StarEast talk on an agile approach to defect management generated more discussion on the topic at the conference. Please read Gojko Adzic’s new post “Bug statistics are a waste of time” – it shatters a lot of illusions that organizations treasure about defect tracking and bug metrics.