Author Archives: Liz

I don’t know. Seriously, I don’t. I’ve never encountered any big barriers which have stopped me wanting to be in IT, nor have I met with any problems being involved with JBehave. I hear rumours that the Open Source world … Continue reading →

Do you find that your pair prefers to drive, even though he’s happy to navigate with others? Do you wish that you could concentrate on the words on the screen, instead of the disjointed letters under your hands? Do your … Continue reading →

http://blog.versionone.net/blog/2007/03/a_few_good_mana.html Once in a blue moon comes a piece of writing so funny that we stick it on our fridge.

Customers: do you wish you had a better idea of what your expensive app was doing? BAs: do you wish the Devs spoke your language? QAs: do you want to write executable acceptance tests in English? Would you like to … Continue reading →

The JBehave team is delighted to announce the release of JBehave 1.0! Please try it out and send us feedback. Features include: Behaviour runner – equivalent to JUnit 3.x Story runner – runs executable scenarios / acceptance criteria Story printer … Continue reading →

Marc challenged us today: Oh, and does anyone have a succinct definition of the difference between lean and agile? I’ve been thinking about this too, and had an epiphany. Agile focuses on early delivery; it handles changing values. Lean focuses … Continue reading →

Forty people in a meeting? Are you mad? No. At least, not in a relevant sense. But it’ll take half an hour! There are some tricks that you can use to keep the stand-up short. Rule 1: Only say things … Continue reading →

is at virtualnames.co.uk. I mention this because they have consistently responded to my support requests within 4 hours, sometimes going beyond the scope of my contract to allow me to do cool stuff. Good service rocks.

“Matthew has learnt that no one comes when he wants to pair.”