Tag Archives: agile

ThoughtWorks Anthology: Agile vs Waterfall Testing

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Nat

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

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Nat

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

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Nat

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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Fitnesse, Ruby and the Mac

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Nat

I’ve recently started using Fitnesse, an acceptance testing framework. There really isn’t much around on how to get it working on the mac with ruby, so I decided to get it working and put up my findings… Installing the Fit … Continue reading →

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