Posts Tagged Software testing
Scenario-Oriented vs. Rules-Oriented Acceptance Criteria
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, BDD/ATDD, Business Analysis, Software Development, Software Testing, Uncategorized on October 2, 2011
Acceptance Criteria, Scenarios, Acceptance Tests are, in my experience, often a source of confusion. Such confusion results in questions like the one asked of Rachel Davies recently, i.e. “When to write story tests” (sometimes also known as “Acceptance Tests” or in BDD parlance “Scenarios”). In her answer, Rachel highlighted that: “…acceptance criteria and example scenarios [...]
Old Favourite: Taking Repetition To Task
Posted by AntonyMarcano in BDD/ATDD, Business Analysis, Old Favourites, Project Management, Software Development, Software Testing on December 13, 2010
This originally appeared on my old blog on 16th March 2010… Others have talked about the virtues of stories as vertical slices of a problem (end-to-end capabilities) rather than horizontal slices (system layers or components). So, if we slice the problem with user stories, how do we slice the user-stories themselves? If, as I sometimes [...]
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)
