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Overcoming test automation challenges

April 26, 2015 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, conferences, continual improvement, experiments, learning for testers, mind maps, test automation, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 4 Comments

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 […]

Pausing to reflect

December 10, 2014 / Lisa Crispin / continuous integration, experiments, pairing, shortened feedback loop, test automation, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / No Comments

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 […]

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 […]