My new book titled "Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing" (ISBN: 978-0-9556836-1-9) is printed and it is now...
Good news! The Agile Alliance has approved funding for our program for 2009. We have $10K available to help with the logistics of our envisioning workshops...
Awesome, way to go, Jennitta! There were some AAFTTers at AWTA this year, but I think that generally only happens every other year. There were some great tools...
We might hold AWTA again in January 2010. I can consider shaping its agenda to fit AAFTT. Especially if there is funding. AWTA has a pretty well-defined...
Ruby (Rails/Merb) community is fairly active with aafttish things. Maybe next to RailsConf or RubyConf or one of the smaller regional conferences? Might get a...
As we consider what events to pair with - maybe it would help to determine some of our objectives. So what are we trying to achieve this year? BTW I'm still...
Friends -- I will always recommend Portland. http://opensourcebridge.org/ This is one event that has sprung up in Portland to replace the open source...
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Portland is good... ... -- Cheers, Mike Stockdale FitNesse.NET <http://www.syterra.com/FitnesseDotNet.html> Syterra Software Inc. <http://www.syterra.com>...
+1 on Portland ... -- Lisa Crispin Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009) ...
Portland is great for whale watching and it is so close, whoops that's Portland, Victoria, Australia.... Your Portland is not so close :( On Tue, Feb 17,...
As we start planning when and where to meet for 2009, it would nice to set out some goals so that we will know what were trying to achieve in our various...
I would like to participate more in the near future. I have not been able to do so up to this time due to other commitments. Portland would be a place that I...
Hello, AA-FTT workshops continuing is great news! Co-locating them with other events is a really good idea (worked well last year) and helps us not living in...
What about CITCON as a related event? http://www.citconf.com/ An AAFTT workshop would fit well into the Friday before or the Sunday after. And the CITCON event...
Hi folks, So, I've been thinking a lot about ATDD and tools and related things recently. It occurs to me that we have a fantastic selection of Agile-friendly ...
Elisabeth, I think the issue here is that the cost of an interpreter for a DSL is much less than building an IDE for it, although because of the recession the...
Hi Elisabeth, I wonder how "universal" a solution is possible. For our domain, spreadsheets work pretty well. This sprint we have a story to do a complex ...
My first thought was of Michael Bolton's post: "Wanting business people to write tests, to me, feels like a cook wanting the restaurant's patrons to sauté...
Expanding on my previous comment... Fitnesse comes with (1) an authoring environment (2) a distribution mechanism and (3) a mechanism for running the tests. As...
Although I've been doing software development for a long time, I'm a relative newbie to using tools such as Fitnesses and RobotFramework. In fact I'm currently...
The most love that I have seen has been for test editors that are embedded in Excel. Many testers and analysts love this approach. This is why i prototyped the...
Hi Lisa, ... I think it would be possible to the extent that the underlying framework understands the relationships among the chunks that make up the tests....
Hi Elisabeth, ... eclipse ... their UX plan, ... using it within CI. it produces an ant build xml that the CI can run, the reports are generated complete with...
This is not a complaint... just a very oddly formed question that in turn likely looks a lot like a complaint...  We quickly played with Twist and found...
Hi Martin, you are right, the documentation is terrible, and the product is evolving so quickly what what little documentation does exist is fast becoming out...
I think many of us would benefit from learning a bit more about TWIST, so I for one would like the conversation to continue. Please start a new thread though...
Hi Stuart, ... Hmmm. Surely the automated acceptance tests for TWIST are available, current, expressive, and exemplary. Dale -- Dale Emery, Consultant ...
Really makes you wonder, doesn't it? :-) I am really curious if this is the case or not. Anybody know? Pascal Roy, ing./P.Eng., PMP Vice-Président/Vice...