Let’s change the tune
As a community, we’re very guilty of using technical terms and confusing business users. If we want to get them more involved, we have to use the right names for the right things and stop confusing...
View ArticleThe principle of symmetric change
One of the most important lessons that I’ve learned as the result of the research conducted for my upcoming book Specification by Example is that many of the most common problems people have with...
View ArticleAnatomy of a good acceptance test
The long term benefits of agile acceptance testing come from live documentation – a description of the system functionality which is reliable, easily accessible and much easier to read and understand...
View ArticleStop automating manual test scripts!
Creating an Executable Specification from existing manual test scripts might seem as a logical thing to do when starting out with Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing. Such scripts...
View ArticleLet’s break the Agile Testing Quadrants
Five years ago, Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory brought testing kicking and screaming into agile, with their insanely influential Agile Testing book. They are now working on a follow-up. This got me...
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