Tonight I held a presentation on acceptance test-driven development. The slides to my presentation are now uploaded to slideshare. They’re in German, so don’t try to fix your monitor if you can’t read a thing.
One of the themes I discussed later was related to Gojko’s blog entry on Simulating your way out of regression testing. When do we throw away an acceptance test and how to get rid of too much ballast? I would love to explore this question in more depth in the next few months. I sense a blog entry coming up here, so stay tuned about this.
It was a pleasant evening. Thank you all for attending.
“… we don’t need no thought control.” Today I heard this song during a sports course from CD, and was reminded about a piece I read last week, and my reaction on it. Before I start let me mention that I don’t intend to offend you if you have put work into the ISTQB (or any other test certification) syllabus, or if you are teaching it. I truly believe that your intentions were quite reasonable at the time when you started to work on it. That said, if your kids are watching over your should right now, send them to bed, or playing while you read the following.
It’s been a while sicne I left my previous employer in order to seek greener pastures, and get in the road towards the consulting business with it-agile GmbH. Since my trial period (we got six months here in Germany) ended on Tuesday, let me take a look back on the past half year.
This is my final report from the Testing Dojos at the Belgium Testing Days. Over all there have been roughly ten different persons attended in one mission or the other. We ran about eight missions in two days. On the first day we started with Google Refine, in the morning on the second day we had a look on Mind Mapping tools, at noon tackled a planning wizard, and finished in the afternoon with some exploratory note-taking tools. I learned a lot, and I hope so did the participants.
While leading the Testing Dojos at the Belgium Testing Days unfortunately I was able to attend just few presentations. One of them were the Lightning Talks on Tuesday evening by Dorothy Graham, Stuart Reid, Hans Schaefer, Lisa Crispin, Johanna Rothman, Julian Harty and Lloyd Roden on Looking into the future.
In November I had the opportunity to stay a whole week with Kent Beck. it-agile GmbH invited him for two courses – Responsive Design and Advanced TDD – and one workshop to Hamburg, Germany, and I took both courses and the workshop. Today I was contacted by Johannes Link who was surprised not to find a write-up of this week on my blog. It turns out somewhere during the past year I have turned into a reporter. So, here is my summary from what I could get from my notes. Initially I planned to write it via email to Johannes, but then I though why not share those comments on my blog. Maybe others are looking forward to it.
On February 2nd 2011 I was invited by Gojko Adzic to a seminar on Winning Big with Specification by Example. It was a half day seminar that took place in London. This is what I took away from the course.
In his talk on Micro-scale retro-futurist anarcho syndicalism Brian Marick about the retro-futurism portion of his movement. He says that he was promissed a jetpack, and wonders where his jetpack now is. Some time ago, Alistair Cockburn made me aware of the Martin JetPack. Let’s turn this into a testing challenge.
Mission: Test the Martin JetPack for any problems a daily user of it may run into. Check any usability problems, problems in functionality, and anything that could harm the health of the user. Please consider that we might want to get an approval from any public transportation law to use this.
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During the last week I made some experiences using the material form the Accelerated Learning method. Motivated from the enthusiasm from my colleagues Stefan Roock and Henning Wolf, I read the book from Sharon Bowman about Training from the BACK of the room! The insights I got from reading it are great, and I was lucky enough to immediately apply them during training courses over the past week. Here are my findings about it, what I did, and what I might do in the future with the insights I got.
