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Many of the most common problems people have with implementing BDD or agile acceptance testing come from a misalignment of conceptual models. By changing our view at the specifications/tests we can make most of those issues go away instantly. This post explains the principle of symmetric change: one small change in a business model should require one small change to executable specifications.
This blog post is about the fact that testers are probably the biggest generalists on any team and they should try to pair with other development roles to increase their knowledge.
Rspec is a great tool in the behavior driven design process of writing human readable specifications that direct and validate the development of your application. Follow these practices to write elegant and maintainable specifications.
Keyword Driven Testing is the next generation test automation approach that separates the task of automated test case implementation from the automation infrastructure.
“Metrics for Implementing Automated Software Testing” presents metrics that you can use to manage the transition towards automation of software tests.
This post about exploratory testing and review discusses the misapprehension that the advocates of exploratory testing suggest that review or other forms of testing should be dropped.
Defects are not so much a technological as a sociological problem. So the measures we take to control them can be expected to lie largely in the sociological plane, affecting the structure and organization of projects, the allocation of goals, and the fostering of new attitudes. Tom DeMarco, “Controlling Software Projects”, Yourdon Press
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