The blog is moving…
August 9, 2009
I’m starting to set up redirects to move (hopefully) painlessly across to the new WordPress blog. Hopefully there’s minimal impact and everything is up by Monday.
Context-driven testing website update
July 30, 2009
I may be a bit slow, but when checking the links in my last post, I noticed that there have been updates to the Context-driven website. It’s worth a read – http://www.context-driven-testing.com. You can see the old version at http://web.archive.org/web/20020727051040/http://www.context-driven-testing.com/
I will be attending STANZ 2009
I hadn’t originally planned to go to the STANZ conference this year, but at the last minute they added two additional keynote speakers, James Bach and Julian Harty of Google, and it’s hard to pass up an opportunity to catch up with James when he’s in the country. Also, as someone aligned with the Context-driven […]
Thinking about Test Strategy – A mnemonic device
July 21, 2009
I’ve recently been on the move a little, and have had a lot of chances to work on test strategy. I generally have historical documents to work from, but decided I should try to come up with a mnemonic device to ensure that I have all of the critical conversations that I need. One of […]
Session tester – A tool for note-taking (for now)
July 9, 2009
I’ve been helping out testing Jonathan Kohl’s Session Tester over the last few months. While the second release was the first that appeared to meet my needs to a degree, it had a few critical problems that lead to data loss. If I’m taking notes, the most critical feature is that my notes be preserved. […]
Another blog…
July 6, 2009
I’m going to be trekking around Korea later in the year, and have started blogging in preparation. It will cover some of my last trip, some of my dabblings in the language, and plans for my upcoming trip, which is going to be themed around Korea’s food and drinking culture. It’s also a good chance […]
More agile and software-development Haiku
July 3, 2009
Time has passed, and I thought it was time to update my thoughts on what’s critical to successful software testing (and development). While originally, I started noting important ideas for agile teams, Increasingly, I find most of these apply no matter what environment I’m working in. Check them out on my Haiku page.
Running Watir cross-browser using Internet Explorer, Firefox and Celerity
July 2, 2009
Since reading about Celerity, I’ve been excited by the idea that I might be able to take my Watir scripts and run them more quickly by using a browser simulator. It also raised the possibility of taking scripts and running them in different environments and on different platforms, because Celerity runs under JRuby without a […]
Test automation models, dehumanising testers and Agile dysfunctions
June 23, 2009
This tweet was forwarded to me yesterday: martinfowler: Manual scripted testing should be a human rights violation It bothered me on a few levels. Firstly, the simplicity of phrasing around manual and scripted testing. Secondly, that agile developers might view themselves as the saviour of oppressed testers everywhere, and the perpetuation of the concept of […]
Trying out this new-fangled twitter thing
June 17, 2009
As I seem to be somewhat time poor, I thought I might be able to squeeze in some blogging-light at http://twitter.com/xflibble.