Shoestring Agile QA
One of the off-putting factors for smaller companies implementing Agile is perceived cost and complexity. How much does is cost to implement a new process or guidelines? Well, nothing on the face of it – though there time for everyone to get up to speed, and maybe a few additional tools. Agile is a mixture [...]
Fitnium
Combination of FitNesse and Selenium, providing a domain specific langauge that allows non-developers to write selenium tests in plain english that are executed through the Fitnesse framework. Fitnium – the closest I have seen to decent attempt to use Selenium with Fitnesse. The reason I gravitate towards Fintesse is largely down to recent experience with [...]
Visual Studio Team Test and proxies
It’s not one of my favourite test tools but sometimes you have to use whats availbale. Team Test, the test tool for TFS/Visual Studio does a fair job of GUI recording tests, though an clunky maintenance nightmare. However this was a resolution given to me, regards problems when accessing websites through the inevitable company proxies.
It’s behind you
I try not to let anything get to me to much, but I am seeing a repeated pattern when I see managers attempting to deal with Agile process issues. And what is largely discussed and changed is … surprise, project management. Project management side is not usually the issue, but easier for managers to discuss [...]
Fitnesse + ATDD + DSL
[In TDD] first the developer writes a failing automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces code to pass that test and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards.
Fitnesse ATDD
Should a tester/developers become a combined entity? Or is this simply representative on the increasing demands on a tester? Stepping back from this boringly over-debated point, there are reasons that the question arises in the first place …From QA Management persepctive, there is weaknesses in the path from user story down to code, and the [...]
