Does Your Team Have STDs?

Earlier in the week I was reading this post on STD's by Jared Richardson: Once one person catches an STD, it seems to spread quickly. STD, of course, stands for Shiny Things Development. — Agile Artisans::home Over the last few months I'
Comments (1) . Sunday, 24 August 2008

Automated acceptance testing in plain english

Earlier in the day I led a session on using Concordion for Automated Acceptance Testing at BarCamp Auckland 2: | View | Upload your own The session was well received and generated some interesting discussions,
Comments (2) . Saturday, 12 July 2008

Computerworld - Half a million dollars spent on scrapped IT project

If this isn't a clear reason for using agile based methodologies then I don't know what is: The Department of Building and Housing has been criticised by Parliament's finance and expenditure select committee for cancelling a project to register li
Comments (0) . Monday, 17 December 2007

Leopard and Pair Programming for the win...

I've just been watching the new Leopard Guided Tour from Apple and was impressed with the new desktop/screen sharing capabilities of iChat: Is it just me or does anyone else think this would rock for distributed pair programming, hell - this would
Comments (0) . Saturday, 20 October 2007

Automated Test Regression Reporting with TestNG and JIRA

Back in 2003 I wrote about my habit of annotating code with @jira javadoc tags, for a long time I've wanted to move these from javadoc annotations to JDK5 annotations and do something "smart" with them - well now I have... The other day on the Tes
Comments (1) . Saturday, 7 October 2006

TestNG-J broke :(

Doh - moments after uploading the new build of TestNG-J yesterday I noticed several problems: Javadoc conversion was using @testng.beforeClass instead of @testng.before-class. I should have checked the docs instead of wild assumption... @Param
Comments (0) . Monday, 18 September 2006

TestNG-J Plugins for TestNG 5.2 released

New builds of the TestNG plugin for the IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE have been uploaded for both Irida (5.x) and Demetra (6.0 EAP). Changes include: Updated to use TestNG 5.2 Updated JUnit conversion intentions to use new @BeforeXXX/@AfterXXX anno
Comments (0) . Sunday, 17 September 2006

Permission to Prosper - On Testing and Christ

Tonight I went to church for the first time in a few weeks, and as I ran out the door I grabbed my new Moleskinne notebook so I could take some notes and hopefully not drift off to sleep again like last time. People often talk about 'really get
Comments (3) . Monday, 5 June 2006

Selenium 0.7 Released

Congrats to the OpenQA and Selenium developers for the release of Selenium Core 0.7. Changelist , Download.
Comments (0) . Monday, 15 May 2006

[ANN] TestNG-J 0.3.4 - Another build, another reason not to use JUnit

Just pushed out TestNG-J 0.3.4 to the IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Repository with the following changes: Now picking up the language level again properly so that 1.4/javadoc classes are tested Before when "package.. in project" was used the source/out
Comments (0) . Thursday, 11 May 2006