September 17, 2018

Acceptance Criteria

Last week I asked questions about Definition of Done, one item that should probably be part of every DoD is Acceptance Criteria. Last week I left a lot of question with no answers, this week, I’m going to provide a few thoughts along with my questions. When do you write your acceptance criteria? Backlo What is the point of acceptance criteria? define boundaries get consensus and understanding of story serve as a basis for tests help with planning and estimations get definition of expectations of product owner What must Acceptance criteria include?

September 10, 2018

Definition of Done

When do I consider things done? Does everyone on my team know what it means for something to be considered done? Do we have a Team Definition of Done? Do we always follow the DoD? Do I speak up if I don’t think everything is really done? Do we see value in our DoD? Are there additional things that we can do to improve the quality of what we deliver?

August 20, 2018

Counterstrings created in Alfred Workflow

While attending the CAST 2018 I learned about the idea of a Counter String. Counter strings are self documenting strings with respect to their length. James Bach, describes counter strings as follows: “A counterstring is a graduated string of arbitrary length. No matter where you are in the string, you always know the character position. This comes in handy when you are pasting huge strings into fields and they get truncated at a certain point.

August 7, 2018

The Whole Team approach to Testing in Continous Delivery

Tutorial Day 2 Speakers This was a tutorial I was really looking forward to. This session was put on by Lisa Crispin & Ashley Hunsberger. I’ve read Lisa’s Agile Testing book, and I head Ashley speak at Selenium so I had a good idea of the people I was going to learn from. So not only were the people that I knew this is a topic that is going to fit perfectly in to some changes we had upcoming here at Miami.

August 6, 2018

Coaching Testing

Tutorial Day 1 I started my week of CAST 2018 with a Tutorial with Anne-Marie Charrett as she taught us about being a coach and what it looks like to coach those around us. Specifically she was teaching about coaching testers but it was more than just that. We spent the day talking about coaching, which is a lot like teaching but really a one-on-one experince. We did talk a little about coaching in a group setting, but most of it was doing individual coaching.

February 28, 2018

QA or the Highway - 2018

Columbus or Bust Another year and another good conference at OSU. Metrics & Measurements We have been working at Miami coming up with masurements and metrics that we can use to show that we are improving and getting better as an organization. So I wanted to point out a few tracks that really spoke to me and ones that I will definately be bringing back to Miami to share with others.