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Test Automation Pyramid Expanded

I was recently at Nashville attending Agile 2013 and had the great pleasure of finally meeting Janet Gregory. I have been tweeting with Lisa Crispin for years and it was fabulous to meet the Janet part...

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Agile Walls Part 2 – Architecture walls

This is part 2 of my 4 part series on agile walls and the uses we can have for them. The premise of the wall is big visible charts, constant and accessible updates and clarity for the entire team on...

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Agile Walls Part 3 – Testing Walls

My last post was about Architecture Walls, this one is a distillation of the architecture into the testing world. In this post I describe how testing can be displayed, tracked and managed on a wall for...

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SQL? NoSQL? NewSQL? What the….SQL??

I was doing some reading over the Christmas break and was honing my skills on NoSQL (as you do!) and then saw this article from InfoQ that talks about SQL making a come-back. I for one did not even...

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UAT – how much is it worth?

UAT (User Acceptance Testing) is a hugely powerful activity in the software development lifecycle. It is the phase where the development team gets the chance to prove that the new or modified software...

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I’ve got the HOTS for testing!

Anyone who knows me, knows this is true – but I have just been doing some work on building my own personal Rubric (structured assessment model) based on my testing knowledge and goals for that...

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It’s just a jump to the left….

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (stage version) was recently playing locally and I was humming along the lyrics the other day and was struck with how much this related to testing! The time warp is the...

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Metrics rock!

Yes! Metrics are fun, powerful and full of goodness. The key to making metrics like this is to understand what people want to know about your solution and the gather the information, via test...

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Three steps in improving UAT

 User Acceptance Testing (UAT) can sometimes be seen as a “nice to have” or a low priority activity in the software development process, but it is very important to help the development team understand...

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Mobile application testing checklists and references

Lately I’ve been working to generate a collection of mobile application checklists and documents for my own reference, but then I realized that there is probably a heap of people who are interested in...

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