Energized Work

I want to play more with the combination of behavior-driven development and Selenium IDE. Stuff isn't clear in my head yet and I'm not entirely sure what I'm aiming for. Maybe it's that, given my interest in usability and interaction design, I want greater emphasis on the user in our acceptance tests.

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Thursday, 1 December 2005

Talking about Selenium with Luke Closs

Posted by Simon Baker

Tags: acceptance testing, selenium, testing

Luke Closs talks about how Sophos use Selenium.

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Tuesday, 29 November 2005

Story Telling with FIT

Posted by Simon Baker

Tags: acceptance testing, conference, fit, story, testing, xpday

This session was presented by Steve Freeman and Mike Hill. Using FIT is a great way to produce automated acceptance tests, but the underlying message of the session was: The act of designing and writing the FIT documents can be an effective means of communicating with the customer. This can help us understand the details of a user story and identify suitable acceptance criteria, which tell us when we're done. The role playing between Steve [the techie] and Mike [the busy customer] was a giggle and demonstrated how well this communication mechanism can work.

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Monday, 24 October 2005

Test infection breeds quality

Posted by Simon Baker

Tags: acceptance testing, fit, fitnesse, selenium, tdd, testing

Generally, the acceptance testing and unit testing performed by an agile team facilitates collaboration and communication, creates feedback loops, and gives developers the courage to attempt things they would perhaps normally shy away from. A test-driven approach to development causes high-quality solutions and implementations to emerge.

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