Putting Some Testing Into Your TFS Build

Published November 11th, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Continuous Integration and scheduled builds are an important part of any development process. To get the best out of these tools, as much testing as possible should be wired into the post build process. With the 2010 release of Visual Studio we get the Lab Manager product that allows us to deploy our automated build to a virtualised test environment for either manual and?or automated testing. This session presents an end to end demo, showing how an application can be build, deployed and tested with the Lab Manager environment.

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CruiseControl.rb Five Minute Installation

Published November 8th, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This is a 5 minute video that takes you through the steps of getting CruiseControl.rb up and running with a Ruby on Rails project.

The Whole Team Approach to Testing

Published November 8th, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Many test teams find themselves “squeezed to the end”, with code delivered too late to complete all the testing before the release deadline. They can’t get traction on critical activities such as test automation, and find themselves falling further and further behind. The software development organization is weighed down by increasing technical debt. Customers aren’t getting the software they wanted. Serious bugs get out to production, slowing the team down more as fixing one bug might cause two more. It can seem impossible to break out of this downward spiral. One way to turn this trend around is to get the whole team involved in building quality into the application, and solving testing problems together. In this session, Lisa Crispin will explain how to make quality a team responsibility, and testing a team’s problem to solve. She’ll explain how the “whole team” approach, leveraging multiple skill sets and planning in time for testing activities, leads to more testable code, better testing solutions. Participants will leave with some practical ideas to try right away.

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Lean Quality Assurance

Published November 2nd, 2010 Under Lean, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Quality Assurance (QA) in software worldwide has in fact degenerated into testing alone. Software?IT management has ignorantly allowed this to happen. Of course many parts of the industry have been well–aware of more cost–effective ways of delivering required quality in practice, but this has in fact been largely ignored; while granting very large resources to testing alone. We know how to do real QA much much better than testing alone, using smarter upstream engineering practices, based on design, prevention and upstream inspections.

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Seven Key Success Factors for Agile Testing

Published October 25th, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Agile development approaches present unique challenges for testers and test teams. Working in short iterations, often with limited written requirements, agile development teams can leave traditional testers behind. Common testing–related activities such as user acceptance testing, testing inter–product relationships, and installation testing need different approaches to fit into agile projects. Lisa Crispin explains seven key factors for testing success within agile projects that you can also apply to more traditional methodologies. Using a whole team approach and adopting an agile testing mindset are among the important components of a successful agile testing strategy. Learn how to overcome cultural and organizational obstacles and barriers to success in areas such as test automation. Discover the seven critical factors that provide a foundation for building your team’s focus on quality and that deliver maximum value to your business.

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C++ And TDD: Getting Started

Published October 20th, 2010 Under Software Testing, TDD | Leave a Comment

This video provides a demonstration of Test-Driven Development (TDD) in C++ using the Eclipse CDT and CppUTest.

Let’s Play TDD #2: Peering Dimly Into the Future

Published October 13th, 2010 Under Software Testing, TDD | Leave a Comment

James Shore continues his series on Test Driven Development in Java with Eclipse and JUnit with further development and test of the project application.

Video producer: James Shore

Let’s Play TDD #1: How Does This Thing Work, Again?

Published October 5th, 2010 Under Software Testing, TDD | Leave a Comment

James Shore starts this series on Test Driven Development by describing what his goals are and then starts with a new project in Java with Eclipse where he will apply TDD using JUnit.

Video Producer: James Shore

Session-Based Test Management

Published September 29th, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Paul Carvalho explains how testers should be involved in Agile and the core principles of session based test management that is used to monitor exploratory based testing.

Behavior-Driven Development in the Real World

Published August 27th, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Behavior-Driven Development is more than a technique for creating and organizing unit tests. It is also a wonderful way to communicate with customers and users about the software being created. This video demonstrates some techniques and tools you can use to start delivering software with BDD. : Using Behavior-Driven Development frameworks, this session explores ways to create software starting with solid Agile requirements, moving all the way through automated testing. We use .NET in C# and Visual Studio ALM, although none of these exact tools are required to accomplish the goals we set forth.


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