Duncan Nisbet - Software Delivery Consultant
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I’ve just finished up a role as an Agile Coach in an eCommerce enterprise helping their Financial Services teams adopt a more iterative approach to value delivery.
Before that, I was embedded in one of their development teams as an Agile Tester.
This post is a summary of our adventures as developers building relationships with our colleagues in Financial Services….
After nearly 3 years & 16 Liverpool Tester Gatherings, the 3 of us have learned several very valuable lessons in running free meetups to provide a platform for new & experienced speakers, with both local & international testing status.
This post aims to share some of our learning
The 3rd North West Exploratory Workshop on Testing is over & now is the time for reflection in order to weave those lessons learned into the future events.
I typically use the metaphor of an orchestra with Testers across different teams/products/squads within an organisation to help the understanding of how different testers can offer value within their teams.
The idea being that the argument “I test websites & they test data” is redundant when you’re thinking of the product or system as a whole
Continue reading “The Orchestra - Different Parts, Same Outcome”
And finally we come to the end of this exploration into the Testing Matrix, so what have I learned?
Continue reading “Dissecting The Testing Quadrants – Wrap Up”
This post outlines some examples of how I’m currently using our current incarnation of the test matrix
Continue reading “Dissecting The Testing Quadrants – Some Examples”
Whilst digging into the test matrix / agile quadrants, I’ve come across several different representations of the model.
This post is a collection of some of those representations (in chronological order as far as I can tell).
Continue reading “Dissecting The Testing Quadrants - Different Representations”
This is the 3rd in a series of posts where I dig into the Agile Testing Quadrants after a coaching session I had with James Bach. This post focuses on the left & right sides of the matrix; the columns.
Continue reading “Dissecting The Testing Quadrants - Columns”
This is the first post attempting to document some of the conversation James Bach & I had whilst trying to determine what my understanding of the Agile test quadrants actually was.
This post is a WIP as I’m sure I’ll be updating it as I walk through each of the quadrants & work with some of the different ideas & terminology we discussed.
Continue reading “Dissecting The Testing Quadrants - Rectangles”
I’m a fan of the (Agile) Testing Quadrants, first described by Brian Marick back in 2003 as a matrix & later popularised by Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory.
James Bach helped me to break down the quadrants in order to get a deeper understanding of what each quadrant meant. It was during this conversation I realised I had a very shallow understanding of the model & I was effectively diluting (& even twisting?!) the message the quadrants were trying to get across.
This post is WIP & under iterative development!
At my current client, we’re being coached in the Hexagonal Architecture pattern.
Admittedly, the primary focus is towards the Programmers, but the change in the development strategy has an impact on us Testers so we get a seat a table.
What is this change in the development strategy which will impact us Testers? The pattern considers integration tests as brittle & unneccessarily linking the business logic to the implementation. As such, with this pattern, you want as few integration tests as possible. So the question is:
As a Tester, how confident am I that the removal of (automated) integration tests have not decreased the stability of the code?
In this 3 part series, I hope to learn more about hexagonal architecture, what it does for the teams test strategy & what the impact is for Testers.
Continue reading “Hexagonal Architecture For Testers: Part 1”
You may have a read a very flattering post by David Greenlees regarding our collaboration on a Miagi-Do School of Software Testing challenge set by Matt Heusser
This post is my response…
2012 has been manic for me so I haven’t been able to blog as much I’d like to. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking of ideas.
These ideas have been racking up, so I thought I’d bang them into a post so I don’t forget. Also, writing them down means I’m committed to seeing them through!
