Yesterday I gave a TDD primer for a crowd of mostly testers at DevGeekWeek 2014. It was under an “agile testing” track, and most of them don’t work with developers who test. Most of them don’t have test automation at all. I started the talk going back to the agile manifesto, and we talked about
When I started my career as a developer, there were testers on my team. That was a new concept for me, since before that I didn’t need any testing, because I didn’t have any bugs. I learned to work with them, although they were a kind of an annoyance, since, suddenly, They discovered I had
You think that Arnold and Sylvester movie careers were head to head? Let me tell you the story of what happened before that. <Dissolve Effect> Arnold and Sylvester had a struggling software development business. Arnold wanted better code design. Because he was after better design, he chose TDD, with all the design goodness it brings.
Remember the days when bugs were just part of life? I mean a big part. If you recall those dark ages, we’ve spent most of our time fixing bugs and introducing others. In our spare time, we got to work on new stuff. Today is different, there are a lot less bugs. So we get
Writing end-to-end automated tests. They are important, but I don’t like to write them. Just thinking about setting up a system all ready for testing just a single test case, then cleaning up after it. Trying to think about all the things that can go wrong and can stop the build, because some environmental god
Recently posted on the Typemock blog: why our builds should be evergreen. Go check it out.
“What gets measured, gets done”. We all know this. By the way, did you notice that it says: “done”, not “done well”? We like metrics, because we base decisions on them. If we didn’t have them, then we would just be guessing. Yet sometimes, metrics deceive us. Well not exactly, it’s our interpretation of them
I’ve recently watched a session called “Chasing the golden GOOS”. From the cunning name, you probably get that it’s about developing an app using the “Growing Object Oriented Systems Guided by Tests” approach. The whole thing was interesting, and then there was a question in the end. Someone in the audience asked about the ratio
Lior Friedman asked whether a tester should know how to program or become obsolete. Lanette Creamer said the same fate awaits programmers who can’t test. This kind of discussion only happens in the dark corner of the software world. Within our small community. In most companies, nobody thinks about this. Human Resources “When we hire
It’s time to talk about when I’m going to talk next. January 29-30th is Israeli 2nd annual Agile Practitioners conference. While having a 2nd year in a row in Israel is a success by itself. But wait, there’s more. Keynoting are Dan North and Boris Gloger, with more international speakers, as well as some of