Exploration Through Example

Example-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick

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Wed, 14 May 2003

Blogging at STAR East

I'm at STAR East, sitting with Bret. We're preparing for a birds-of-a-feather session on weblogs about testing. I'm showing him how I use Blosxom.

Yesterday, Bret and I taught a tutorial on scripting for testers. Our goal was to teach non-programming testers the kind of programming that helps testers. I thought it was a disaster. Bret thought it went well. Fortunately, the participants generally agreed with Bret. It went well enough that we'll be doing it again at STAR West and at PNSQC. (The PNSQC version will be not quite as geared to beginners.) We'll also be teaching a two- or three-day version through SQE next year. (And we'll be teaching it in-house, too, I hope.)

So I guess I'm a happy guy.

Today, I gave another talk about agile testing. (And just now, Mark Taylor came up to say he liked the talk. So that went well too.) In this talk, I spent half the time talking about problems with requirements documents, how agile projects get along without them, and how I think testers should help. Then we spent the second half brainstorming tests for a feature I want to add to my time tracking application. A good time was had by all. I wore funny hats.

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