Today I crossed the path of a blog post on Why should we care about software craftsmanship. It’s basically a two part blog entry from Gael Fraiteur who visited the Software Craftsmanship conference in London, and reflected afterwards back on what Software Craftsmanship is to him, and where he sees problems with the notion of the term heavily influenced by a talk from David Harvey called Danger – Software Craftsmen at Work. Uncle Bob Martin wrote an excellent reply to the concerns here, which I won’t repeat. From my perspective there is one important argument missing: on customers, business representatives, and project stakeholders. That said, I agree to everything from Uncle Bob, but here is what I would add.
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What you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – Automation
Continuing the series of questions from the CONQUEST 2010 conference in September, this is the last piece we’ll take a closer into. Today is on test automation.
Continue reading What you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – AutomationWhat you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – Doing
Continuing the series of questions from the CONQUEST 2010 conference in September, we’ll take a closer look on questions regarding actually testing software.
Continue reading What you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – DoingOn Patterns
A few years ago, my superior at my job at that time asked me to try to note down what I had in mind about testing, and how to approach test automation. He also convinced me to try out the commonly in use form of patterns. Inspired by those Design Patterns, Fearless Change Patterns, Apprenticeship Patterns, xUnit Test Patterns, I sat down and started to write patterns on function test automation, and the thing we used to call ATDD…
Agile Testing Days: Alternative Paths for Self-Education in Software Testing
Last week, I attended the Agile Testing Days in Berlin. I presented on Wednesday afternoon on how to self-educate yourself in Software Testing. I uploaded the slides to slideshare.
Alternative Paths For Self Education In Software Testing Webinar from Markus Gärtner
In early September I did a webinar on the same presentation. You can access and download the webinar at the EuroSTAR pages.
Agile Testing Days: Reinvigorate Your Retrospectives
At the Agile Testing Days in Berlin, Jennitta Andrea held a keynote on how to reinvigorate your retrospectives. This is my write-up from her talk.
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At the Agile Testing Days in Berlin the last keynote on Wednesday was held by Janet Gregory on learning for testers.
Continue reading Agile Testing Days: About Learning (for Testers)Agile Testing Days: Hitting a Moving Target
At the Agile Testing Days David Evans presented on how to hit a moving target and fixing quality on unfixed scope.
Continue reading Agile Testing Days: Hitting a Moving TargetAgile Testing Days: Mitigating Agile Testing Pitfalls
At the Agile Testing Days Anko Tijman presented about mitigating Agile Testing Pitfalls. Here is my write-up from his session.
Continue reading Agile Testing Days: Mitigating Agile Testing PitfallsAgile Testing Days: Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business!
Wednesday’s morning keynote at the Agile Testing Days came from Michael Bolton, not the singer, not the guy from office space. Michael talked about testers should get out of the quality assurance business.
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