Wrap-up

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: June 18, 2003April 25, 2011. 1 Comment Posted in Automated Testing, Conference Reports, Development, Testing Tagged acceptance testing, Agile Fusion, agile testing, Bret Pettichord, Brian Marick, Cem Kaner, change detection, exploratory testing, James Bach, John Elrick, objectives, risk, testing role, XP1 Comment

Cem prepared this list to help us discuss the outcome of this workshop. We spent this morning discussing and refining it (with John moderating, which I mention so that he can get his Toastmaster’s credit 🙂 ). All of these things are in the context of testing on an agile project, where people typically shift […]

Dinner conversations

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: June 18, 2003April 24, 2011. Posted in Business Analysis, Conference Reports, Testing Tagged Agile Fusion, Bret Pettichord, Brian Marick, Cem Kaner, Chris Sepulveda, criticizing code, Jeremy Stell-Smith, pair programming, patterns, programming skills for testers, psychological barriers, required knowledge, test-specific tasks, testing role

A few tidbits from dinner conversations: First, a couple of nights ago, Bret was talking about psychological barriers that hold us back. The example he gave was that maybe he wasn’t as successful as a developer because he didn’t want to redesign people’s code. This got me to pondering. I’m generally prone to avoid controversy. […]

Group discussion

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: June 13, 2003April 24, 2011. Posted in Conference Reports Tagged Agile Fusion, BC Holmes, blogging project, Cem Kaner, James Bach, Mike Feathers, Mike Hewner, planning game, testing role, XP

Did some stories, did some code mining, did a feature walkthrough (so they know where they’re going). Talked about what scenario testing is and what the role of testing is on projects. They’ve already found a big stack of bugs in the existing code. Synopsis of their discussion of scenario testing: Got through the demo […]