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setup and teardown for a ruby TestSuite
My Watir tests for a particular application are grouped into three subclasses of Test::Unit::TestCase. To run them all I have a top-level test suite that looks like this: require 'test/unit'...
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can downstream testing ever be the bottleneck?
Everywhere I go I find managers complaining that some team or other is short of staff; and (so far) that has always turned out to be a mirage. TOC’s 5 Focusing Steps say that adding resources to the...
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downstream testers: better is worse
This week I’ve been reflecting on why it is that some “agile” teams seem to really fly, while others never seem to get out of second gear. Part of the answer, at least in the teams I’ve looked at, lies...
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downstream testing implies a policy constraint
As usual, it takes me multiple attempts to figure out what I really want to say, and how to express myself. Here’s a bit more discussion of what I believe is implied by downstream testing: The very...
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A testing strategy
The blog post Cucumber and Full Stack Testing by @tooky sparked a very interesting Twitter conversation, during the course of which I realised I had fairly clear views on what tests to write for a web...
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