My new book Effective Software Testing: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Testing (Addison Wesley, Dec 2002) is now available in bookstores (on-line and brick &...
... Good points all. I'd not be surprised to find that a team trying XP was having trouble if its stories were not customer-value focused, if they were doing ...
Call for Participation Fourth Annual Austin Workshop on Test Automation (AWTA) January 25-26, 2003 - Austin, Texas http://www.pettichord.com/awta4.html ...
... You're right. I was wrong. The snarky "faster to run, slower to program" crack is facile in many ways. ... I hope you'll consider coming to the workshop. ...
On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 02:16 PM, Janet Gregory ... Yes, but this is only (I think) a matter of programmer convenience: - she's guaranteed to know the...
Hi Jamie, It sounds like your company has made a commitment to move to an agile process, so you've overcome what I think is the biggest hurdle. Apart from...
Hi Jamie, It sounds like your company has made a commitment to move to an agile process, so you've overcome what I think is the biggest hurdle. Apart from...
As a testing consultant, I've worked with a couple teams using XP. And i've also talked to a number of other testers on XP projects. The teams that i worked...
... The times I have used a "remote-eval" it's been for server-based systems. In a development context, the ability to connect to any server, inspect, modify,...
Brian, I have included by thoughts below. ... wrote: <snip> ... (possibly like acceptance tests, possibly with the acceptance tests) - at least > as an...
... I think these are good points. I wouldn't draw the line between "language that supports eval" and "language that doesn't", though. Thinking about it, I...
... In fact if your application is written in any language that has "eval", i.e. Smalltalk, Lisp/Scheme, Ruby, etc. then the easy thing to do is support at...
For those interested in more along the same lines as my position paper, here's a writeup of an interview I did with Sam Guckheimer for Rational Edge magazine: ...
... You're welcome. And thank you. ... (DTSTTCPW = do the simplest thing that can possibly work.) A remote procedure call / remote method invocation interface...
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Hubert Matthews
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Dec 19, 2002 7:22 pm
Hi Guys Is anyone else receiving spam from IIST? They seem to have obtained my e-mail address from somewhere (this list, perhaps) and keep sending me ...
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 10:51 PM, Janet Gregory ... Unit tests could be run from a separate process, I suppose, but I wouldn't. I think my point is...
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Dec 19, 2002 1:19 pm
Hi Jamie I'm working on an 'agile' project for a large organisation that has always followed the classic V model/waterfall approach. The challenges I've ...
Brian, I have reviewed your paper, and think you have some good ideas, but I have a few questions. Are you saying that all the tests, unit tests included, can...
Jamie, My first question is: "How familiar are you or anyone else in the company with Agile methods?" The answer to that question will help determine the best...
I've joined a small company as the lead tester (and really only tester)that is looking to move toward an XP based process, I've volunteered to help drive this...
Brian, Thank you for a thought provoking paper. I have been using the resources on your site for years now and I still haven'y explored them all. A worthy ...
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 11:51 AM, Lisa Crispin ... That isn't clear, is it? I started by showing this test code as a sample of what a user might...
Hi Brian, I like the paper, I think it does a good job of demonstrating your position. I'm not sure if I would have understood it as well if I hadn't seen you...
Shine Technologies is running a survey on the adoption and use of Agile Methodologies and processes in the IT industry. If you have heard of, investigated or...
I've written a position paper for a workshop. It touches on architectures to support product-level tests, the way I use test automation to explore design, and...
... I'd like to suggest that this slogan is another way of saying "test that every case you thought of has been implemented as you intended". Put that way,...
