In the last day, after being in Germany for just over 4 days, I decided to still attend the morning talks and take a look at the sketching workshop (which I left after the break: I was tired, and I’m really poor at drawing, which meant that I couldn’t even concentrate on what we were asked to do, so I thought I’d give it another go another time). Here are the key points in the morning talks I attended.
“Natural born testers. Are you one? If not, then become one!” by Graham Thomas
- A natural born tester is someone who tests by default. Whatever. Not destructively, or maliciously, just out of habit, or compulsion, a what if?;
- who is a natural born tester in this picture?
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- why lemmings?
- skills - multi-tasking, parallel processing, problem solving, time management, goal oriented, fun
- why play railroad tycoon?
- all about planning, management, different views by context
- monitoring, measuring and predicting
- controlling
- adapting to change
- reacting to change
- fun
- angry birds:
- teaches you to explorer your content
- simple solution is not always optimal
- different techniques
- combine techniques
- plan
- think in the abstract
- playing angry (test) birds - hit different parts of the code
- learn through play - raspberry pi, penguin puzzle
“Don’t you trust me?” by Seb Rose
- Go through the behaviours with the business, everyone involved, stakeholders, look for the knowns and the unknowns;
- our systems can be described as behaviours of our system;
- Cucumber is good because it will bring everyone together to specify software - developers, testers, BAs, product owners;
- it also helps you give live documentation which is why it has some advantage over other tools;
- what is the problem with this collaboration in BDD?
- some places aren’t quite as agile as they think they are
- talking to each other - BDD actually helps with this because you need to speak to each other
- look at different components, don’t just test drive them;
- regaining trust
- too many organisations are; agile in the way that are not what we would like to think about it - they are still too structured;
- Ron Jeffries - No Estimates;
- testing pyramid (unit/integration/end-to-end/exploratory&manual);
- ice-cream collapse pattern
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- don’t treat acceptance tests as system tests - both are different and have a different audience;
- be careful what you test with BDD - it’s expensive, certain things you can go directly to the method and test it there
