Monthly Archives: August 2005

OO acceptance tests (or behaviour)

Posted on August 18, 2005 by Liz

I’m sure this can’t be original – most of it has come about from talking to my colleagues, or is nicked from the way JBehave works and my attempts to use it – but I wanted to write it down … Continue reading →

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Acceptance tests: features vs. bugs

Posted on August 18, 2005 by Liz

Last week, we had a lunchtime get-together to talk about refactoring the functional tests. This week, we had another conversation about “things that were really good” about the project. A little gem came up between them: CardSuites. A CardSuite is … Continue reading →

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Gaming the system

Posted on August 18, 2005 by Liz

Lots of better people than I have written excellent posts about how, in any system, people will play it to get the best reward. It’s not just software: If a teacher is rewarded according to the success rate of his … Continue reading →

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When did we stop caring?

Posted on August 10, 2005 by Liz

Today, we had a lunchtime meeting about our ever-contentious functional test suite. Who cares about the functional test suite? The customers really care about our functional test suite. I know, because when I was on the dev team I had … Continue reading →

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Agile: another word for unhappiness?

Posted on August 9, 2005 by Liz

Reading about Neal Ford’s frustration when trying to explain Agile reminded me of this: “The best way not to be unhappy is not to have a word for it.”      Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy I guess … Continue reading →

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