I’m giving a Virtual Lunch and Learn talk this Friday, June 26, at 12pm Central Time. You may register here!
This has been my favorite talk for the last three years or so. I’m going through the content and updating it to reflect feedback I got during this time. I hope to see some of you there!
Testing in Agile: from Afterthought to an Integral Part
Many who try to start automating tests end up giving up the practice. Those tests seem really helpful at the beginning, but are abandoned over time. Even the practice of Test-Driven Development (TDD) faces similar issues, with many giving it up.
How do long-time practitioners do it? Or, perhaps more importantly, why do they do it?
Let me share my experiences in this area, starting with unit tests way back in 2004, navigating through lessons learned the hard way, and ending with my current approach to automated tests, code coverage, TDD/BDD, and how I use those techniques to bring together developers, QA, UX, Product Owners, and Business Analysts .