Category Archives: agile

ThoughtWorks Anthology: Agile vs Waterfall Testing

A pragprog book by the title “ThoughtWorks Anthology – Essays on Software, Technology and Innovation” has been hanging around the office gathering dust for the past few months. While waiting for a regression test run to finish today, I picked … Continue reading

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Lessons from a watir success story

There aren’t enough UI test automation success stories documented on the net, so here’s my contribution. This post is about  how we started with zero automated UI testing capability, and how a couple of months later we had the capability … Continue reading

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Quick and easy Watir test suites with Test::Unit

A test team usually has a need for a few fixed test suites, eg: a sanity suite or a suite which contains all tests for a full run. There’s usually also a need to be able to create suites with … Continue reading

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Book Excerpt on Acceptance Test Driven Development

Download the PDF from here: http://www.manning-source.com/books/koskela/Chapter9Sample.pdf I haven’t read the book, but the above excerpt is really quite good. Bookmark to:

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