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 list. ThoughtWorks sponsored […]
Archives for January 2007
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 Cotton […]
We Interrupt This Blog for a Special Announcement
Public Course: Developing Agile Teams I’m happy to announce that my colleague Dale Emery and I will be hosting a public offering of our course Developing Agile Teams. When: March 1 – 2, 2007 Where: Mountain View, CA Cost: US$799 This is a methodology-agnostic workshop in which we focus on the core values and practices […]
The “We Reframe”
A long time ago, when I was employed at a software company, I participated in an all-engineering offsite meeting in which we attempted to figure out what we needed to do to improve. First exercise: we went around the room, round-robin style, and everyone contributed an idea. A Tester said the Developers should write better […]
Just Who Am I Anyway?
Dave Simcox just brought something important to my attention: I hadn’t included contact information on my blog. When I was using one of the standard templates, I had a page with “About me” information, including contact info. But when I switched to a custom template of my own design, I forgot to include that. My […]