Following last week’s WeekNight Testing session, I recorded a video today using Inspectional Testing for FireFox 4. Here is the mindmap with the session and debrief notes that I took during the 10 minute session.
I uploaded the video to YouTube. I hope the video will still give you a hint what Inspectional Testing is about.
Last Wednesday we had a WeekNight Testing session. There was something special about this session. It was announced as a live session. Mike Scott contacted me in February, asking whether I could organize a live session in Hamburg, while they were bringing in a gig at SkillsMatter in London. Earlier in March we got also a session organized in San Francisco by Lisa Crispin. So we ran the session in parallel in three different locations. Besides the official session report, here are some thoughts on how I ran the session in Hamburg.
Continue reading WeekNight Testing LiveLast week I crossed the term “best practices” quite often. So I decided to share my thoughts on the term, and offer alternatives.
Continue reading Best practices for “Best practices”Tonight I held a presentation on acceptance test-driven development. The slides to my presentation are now uploaded to slideshare. They’re in German, so don’t try to fix your monitor if you can’t read a thing.
Akzeptanztests from Markus Gärtner
Some of the online resources and books I mentioned:
One of the themes I discussed later was related to Gojko’s blog entry on Simulating your way out of regression testing. When do we throw away an acceptance test and how to get rid of too much ballast? I would love to explore this question in more depth in the next few months. I sense a blog entry coming up here, so stay tuned about this.
It was a pleasant evening. Thank you all for attending.
“… we don’t need no thought control.” Today I heard this song during a sports course from CD, and was reminded about a piece I read last week, and my reaction on it. Before I start let me mention that I don’t intend to offend you if you have put work into the ISTQB (or any other test certification) syllabus, or if you are teaching it. I truly believe that your intentions were quite reasonable at the time when you started to work on it. That said, if your kids are watching over your should right now, send them to bed, or playing while you read the following.
Continue reading “We don’t need no education…”It’s been a while sicne I left my previous employer in order to seek greener pastures, and get in the road towards the consulting business with it-agile GmbH. Since my trial period (we got six months here in Germany) ended on Tuesday, let me take a look back on the past half year.
Continue reading Looking back on six months of a new job