Getting The Most From Automated Functional Tests

Published January 23rd, 2012 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Agile teams invest heavily in automated functional tests. When done well, this investment is paid back with fast feedback enabling teams to release software quickly and often. By structuring tests in the right way, teams can further leverage this investment by using these tests as a platform for exploratory testing that could find issues a regression test suite won’t. Read more

The Scrum Framework

Published October 25th, 2011 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Agile coaches need to be able to teach the agile framework their teams will use in 10 minutes or less. No joking. Why? Because they will have to teach it hundreds of times. Every time a new team member joins. Every time a manager stands in the team’s way. And many more times besides. This video shows how Lyssa Adkins teaches the Scrum framework. Use her example as a starting point and get good at delivering your own version. Lyssa is the author of Coaching Agile Teams, a book created for agile coaches who are ready help their teams to go beyond the mechanics of agile to produce astonishing results.

Video Producer: Lyssa Adkins

Effective Specifications and Tests for Agile Projects

Published October 3rd, 2011 Under Project Management, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This video presents a set of process patterns that facilitate change in software products to ensure that the right product is delivered efficiently with short iterations. Agile projects require that the specifications and testing processes fit into short iterations, which is a challenge for business analysts and developers when they start using an Agile approach.

Watch this video from http://ndc2011.macsimum.no/mp4/Day2%20Thursday/Track5%200900-1000.mp4

Measuring Technical Debt with Load Testing

Published August 29th, 2011 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Every development project has technical debt that accumulates over time. This debt must typically be repaid – with interest – at some point in the development lifecycle. QA testers can contribute considerable value to the organization by using load testing tools to better quantify the effect of technical debt on users. Knowing how technical debt might affect users can help management decide if, or even when, debt should be addressed.

Q&A of this webinar on The Seapine blog

Test Management Solution Can Help You to Improve your Testing

Published May 25th, 2011 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Software testing has always been a challenge. Companies are looking for testing methodologies and tools which will help them to improve their testing results, while improving software quality and cycle time. The SaaS revolution made it easier for new vendors to bring new solutions to the markets, offering high quality tools at a surprising price, with all the benefits of software as a service over old-time installed solutions.

One of these solutions is Testuff test management. A comprehensive suite, active for over 4 years now, with high standards of ease-of-use. Testuff flexible tool, allows different methodologies uers to implement theirs, keeping procedures and work-flows in place, while making testing a much easier job.

With a few unique features, such as video recording for defects, rich formatting test editor, dedicated test runner and more, Testuff also integrates with many other testing tools of various types such as bug trackers and automation applications. This integration requires only a simple and quick setup. Any user can import their tests to Testuff and get started with real testing within just a few minutes.

Video sponsored by Testuff

Setup Eclipse for Maven, TestNG, SVN and Selenium

Published May 18th, 2011 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This video will show you on the Mac, how to setup your Eclipse IDE to use Maven, TestNG, SVN, and Selenium. I will also quickly show you how to create a project and set it to use these tools.

More information and source code: http://jcwebconcepts.net/?p=409

BDD With Cucumber RSpec

Published April 26th, 2011 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This two videos show how to do Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) with Ruby, Cucumber and RSpec.

TickSpec Demonstration

Published January 12th, 2011 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

TickSpec is a lightweight Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework. It describe behavior in plain text using the Gherkin business language: “given, when, then”.

Continuous Integration with Signal

Published November 22nd, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Signal is an integration server written in Rails and integrated with metric_fu, rspec, cucumber and maven. It is easy to install and easy to use.

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Modularization, Testing and Technical Debt in a Large Agile Project

Published November 15th, 2010 Under Scrum, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This experience reports focuses on the major scrum–related technical challenges that arose during a 120 000 hour scrum controlled project. For each of them, we try to identify the cause and the consequence, and then follow up with any solutions we tried. Finally we sum up and assess whether the problem was successfully solved or not.

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