Posts Tagged automated tests
Putting Cucumber where it’s not supposed to go will hurt!
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, BDD/ATDD, Software Development, Software Testing on March 7, 2011
Today, I came across this post by Ryan Bigg where he talks of the pains he’s experienced with Cucumber. Fortunately for Ryan, the outcome was a positive one, he ended up finding what appears to be a nice looking API for automating test-execution. The experience he had with Cucumber, however, is a common one. Often [...]
Boredom: a Testing Smell?
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, Software Testing on July 9, 2010
This first appeared on my old blog in June 2005. Somebody I know who was doing some (unscripted) testing spoke of being bored the other day… I have always found boredom to be a sign that something is wrong. I believe, as has been said by Kaner et al, that testing is a brain-engaged activity. [...]
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Antony Marcano is a consultant in software craftsmanship, effective software processes, software quality and software testing. He has over fifteen years experience with... (read more)
