The Daily Scrum just takes fiveteen minutes and is the central tool for every agile team, to coordinate and structure the day. You should expect that every minute counts and everybody values the meeting with the priority and usefullness it deserves. Still, experience shows, that it happens that team members show up late for Daily Scrum. What’s the best way to deal with that situation?
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Who Is Late For Daily Scrum?
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This post is written on 29. July 2010 by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum.
Debugging XPath and CSS locators with Selenium IDE
On the robotframework-users mailing list was a question about how radio buttons can be properly handled with the SeleniumLibrary. There was apparently a problem somewhere in the generated xpath expression, and the user found it difficult to debug where things went wrong.
Since I failed to explain to the user in a private e-mail conversation how to debug the situation with the selenium IDE, I made a short screencast. At the end, I had to briefly pause the cast, since I was getting close to the 5:00 restriction, but I hope you’ll catch everything. (read more…)
category: Agile Testing | no comment
This post is written on 23. July 2010 by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum.
How to Structure a Scalable And Maintainable Acceptance Test Suite
You started to write automated acceptance tests, so that you don’t need to retest all the results from earlier sprints at the end of every sprint. Greate, we too. After a while of successful test automation, tests start to look like a big ball of mud instead of a cleanly designed test suite. Darn, same for us. Where did we go wrong? Over time, we established a few patterns and best practices, that lead to a scalable and maintainable test infrastructure, which I would like to present in this post. (read more…)
category: Agile Testing | 2 Comments so far
This post is written on 20. July 2010 by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum.
File Downloads With Selenium — Mission Impossible?
When starting to automate acceptance tests that include a web UI, you probably will hit a wall quite quickly: how to verify a document that is available for download against some criteria? If you tried that one you know: doing file downloads automatically seems to be a mission impossible … or … is it really?
category: Agile Testing | 5 Comments so far
This post is written on 9. July 2010 by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum.
Wrap-Up meettheexperts Agile 2010
Two weeks ago, the first meettheexperts@codecentric took place this year. After successfull events last year, we can conclude not without pride, that again the participants were very happy with the day. Before I drift off into more details about the day, I would like to share some pictures with you, so that you can get an impression about how it was like. (read more…)
category: Agile, meet the experts | no comment
This post is written on 1. July 2010 by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum.
Survey Result on Usage of TDD
Last week I conducted a little survey. The results I now would like to present and discuss here.
In total 17 people shared their opinion. Thank you for taking the time. Of course this cannot lead to statistically sound statements, but we can show tendendcies, opinions, and food for thought.
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category: eXtreme Programming | 3 Comments so far
This post is written on 27. May 2010 by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum.
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