Adventures with Auto-Generated Tests and RSpec

This post started out as a quick little entry about a cool parlor trick you can do with RSpec to make it work for auto-generated test data. But in the middle of writing what was supposed to be a simple post, my tests found a subtle bug with bad consequences. (Yeah for tests!)

So now this post . . . → Read More: Adventures with Auto-Generated Tests and RSpec

Bay Area TD-DT Summit

A quick update on the Bay Area TD-DT Summit I mentioned in a previous post.

The response has been overwhelming. So overwhelming that I discovered today that I hadn’t responded to everyone that sent a request for invitation. I think I’m caught up now though. So if you sent a request for invitation already, . . . → Read More: Bay Area TD-DT Summit

Where are the Developer Testers and Tester Developers…

Jason Huggins has very kindly pointed me to two more places where Developer-Testers/Tester-Developers (DT/TD) hang out. Interestingly, both were in London.

Google hosted LTAC (the London Test Automation Conference) in September 2006. Antony Marcano mentioned LTAC on his blog. And the LTAC talks are available on Google Videos. And there’s a mail . . . → Read More: Where are the Developer Testers and Tester Developers…

Tester Developers, Developer Testers

I spent this last weekend at AWTA, the Austin Workshop on Test Automation. Our official topic was Open Source Testing Frameworks. Before the meeting, I figured we’d discuss experience reports about how folks used Watir/Selenium/xUnit/CruiseControl/etc. and Ruby/Perl/Python/etc. to cobble together totally automated, lights out, acceptance testing solutions.

We did discuss topics like that. Bob . . . → Read More: Tester Developers, Developer Testers