Test Obsessed

When I moved my blog, I didn’t do a good enough job of verifying that all the assets moved over. Several folks have contacted me asking for their favorite content to be restored. Whoopsie! Many many thanks to everyone who contacted me. Please accept my apologies both for breaking links and also for taking so [...]

This week, I’m investing a bunch of hours on my side project. Today, I’m working on a feature where a field is supposed to remain invisible until a user enters a combination of values. There are a variety of ways to test this code including testing the javascript with something like Jasmine. However, in this [...]

It seems like everyone is suddenly talking about Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) these days. I have worked with several organizations as they’ve adopted the practice. And I’ve watched each struggle with some dimension or another of it. The concept behind the practice is so simple: begin with the end in mind. But in order [...]

A while ago I blogged about how I define Agile: Agile teams produce a continuous stream of value, at a sustainable pace, while adapting to the changing needs of the business. I’ve gotten a little flack for it. A handful of people informed me that there is only one definition of Agile and it’s in [...]

A question from my mailbox this morning (paraphrased): Our organization is transitioning to agile. I often hear that not everybody will suit an agile team. I’m concerned that some of the non-agile-minded will drop out. How do we keep everyone on board? My correspondent had heard statistics and advice like “20% of the people in [...]

For years, whenever someone asked me if I thought testers had to know how to write code, I’ve responded: “Of course not.” The way I see it, test automation is inherently a programming activity. Anyone tasked with automating tests should know how to program. But not all testers are doing test automation. Testers who specialize [...]