The following is an edited excerpt from our webinar that took place March 10, 2015. The entire recording may be viewed here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/737060184353086210. This is the first in a series of webinars on DevOps Engineering and discussed why DevOps Engineering is important. The webinar was given by Mr. Jeffery Payne and Mr. Richard Mills of […]
One of my all-time favorite sales books is entitled Hope Is Not a Strategy. It’s a book about how to properly manage sales teams and opportunities. But I often use this slogan when talking to senior executives about their unrealistic software project expectations. When teams push back on unrealistic project release schedules, story estimates, or […]
The concept of whole team quality is a good one. Everybody on a project should be responsible for quality. Unfortunately, there are often holes in our whole team quality approach. Here are a few I’ve seen: No definition of Done – It’s difficult to achieve quality if you don’t define what it means! So many […]
When talking about the activities critical to agile success, one often hears about daily huddles, continuous integration, and user acceptance testing, but I’ve found that the agile principle of Self-directed Teams is equally important. Teams should be allowed to estimate and assign their own work for a variety of reasons: 1) Estimates will be more […]
Introduction Last month wrapped up my Cucumber posts for a while. I’ve covered the full gamut of topics for Cucumber, and I don’t believe I have too many more nuggets of knowledge to offer without putting myself out of a job. While working with Cucumber over the past year I’ve done a lot of research. […]
I’m often asked what makes mobile testing so different that testing anything else? The simple answer is your goal. When we test a web application, per say, the goal of our testing is to often ensure that the application fulfills the requirements as directed by the product owner, that it meets any standards set by […]
As one of our resident security guys, I thought I might write up a quick guide about what not to do with password management. As long as you build a website or web service, at some point you’re most likely going to have to store a password. Unfortunately for many developers out there (in organizations […]
Tagging Basics Cucumber provides a simple method to organize features and scenarios by user determined classifications. This is implemented using the convention that any space delimited string found in a feature file that is prefaced with the commercial at (@) symbol is considered a tag. Any string may be used as a tag and any […]
Introduction The more I have gotten into developing testing frameworks based on Cucumber, the more I’ve seen how important writing effective cucumber tests are. The feature files provided earlier are not a good example of cucumber tests, and below we will cover why, and how to turn these into effectively written test cases. A badly […]
Introduction In the last blog post, we started down the road of BDD, utilizing the Cucumber-jvm, and using Webdriver to perform some acceptance tests on our web based application. This post will continue where the last one left off, and move us further along, by examining some of the issues with our testing code base, […]
