Archive for the ‘Testing’ Category

Acceptance Test-Driven Development: An Overview

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Test execution beyond the traditional use of developer unit tests in the Agile community has been debated. Elisabeth Hendrickson has a great article shared on her blog here.

Agile Development Practices 2008: Brian Marick’s “Seven Years Later: What the Agile Manifesto Left Out”

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Here is the video of Brian Marick’s keynote talk at Agile Development Practices 2008.

IDE Feature Request: The YAGNI Development Assistant

Monday, December 8th, 2008

This article contains a funny feature request from Darren Smith for a YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It) development assistant.

Beware the Hero

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Elisabeth Hendrickson describes a classroom situation that shows pitfalls of the “hero” attempting to do too much in this article.

The WordCount Simulation

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

In her Agile Testing class, Elisabeth Hendrickson conducts an exercise called the WordCount Simulation that is described in detail with this blog post.

Agile-Friendly Test Automation Tools/Frameworks

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Elisabeth Hendrickson gives a run-down of test automation tools and their characteristics in this blog post.

Non-functional Requirements as User Stories on Agile Projects

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Mike Cohn has provided another great article on how a team can write non-functional requirements in a basic user story format.

Studies of Test-Driven Development

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

George Dinwiddie has collected studies on Test-Driven Development (TDD) in the software industry here.

Misconceptions with Test-Driven Development

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Mark Levison again provides great information about an important Agile development topic, Test-Driven Development (TDD), in this blog entry.

Dirty Rotten ScrumDrels

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Uncle Bob has provided another interesting piece that focuses on the responsibility of people to do good work on their software projects.