Agile Testing
Where do testers fit in on an Agile team? As a company transitions to Agile, are testers expected to do pretty much what we did before, just faster? At this talk, you’ll hear how Agile methods encourage tester involvement upstream, and how this increases the value of testers and makes …
FitNesse: Slim Comparison Operators
A quick demonstration of the comparison operators used in Slim Tables. [vimeo 2455304 480 360] FitNesse home page
Working Outside-in with Cucumber and RSpec
Look at the idea of working Outside-in and the importance of focusing on customer value. Introduce Cucumber a testing tool which allows writing plain text feature documentation which through Ruby steps is executed. Examine how to use it, why it is useful and how it compares with existing tests such …
Wanted: Context-Driven Test Designer
In order to succeed with your assignment as tester you need to adapt to every project’s specific needs. There is no universal solution regardless of what self-appointed test specialists or so called universal standards may tell you. I will give you examples of two projects I have worked in with …
Interaction Based Testing with Rhino Mocks
Beyond the simplest scenarios, all objects had collaborators that they work with. This flies in the face of testing objects in isolation. This is the problem that mock objects were created to solve. In this talk you will learn what mock objects are, how to utilize them and best practices …