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More practical advice from the pragmatic crew.
This is another excellent book from the guys at Pragmatic. In this book Jared and William cover pragmatic project management with down to earth advic...
-Jack D. Herrington |
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Even though our group was already following many of the practices outlined in Ship It!, I believe the book paid for itself within the first day of purchase. When one considers the burn rate of a ty...
-Steve Mitchell |
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Ship It! is part manual of best practices, part software methodologies book and part a distillation of ideas and experiences of good and bad projects that the authors have been involved in. It migh...
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(Oct 15)
Last week in Washington, D.C. I was teaching a test automation class. The class ended up being composed of roughly half developers and half traditional, click-through testers.
An unexpected phenomenon surfaced when we started writing our first tests. The testers were having trouble with Java syntax and the developers were writing very poor tests. Rather than try to work with everyone myself, I used one of my favorite presenter tricks. I had everyone pair up.
It would sound more clever to tell you I planned it this way, but I didn't. And in hindsight, it makes perfect sense. But the give and take, the teamwork that emerged from those exercises was pretty incredible. We had strangers, from different companies, working together like old friends. Everyone in the class said they'd never worked like that before. Testers had worked with testers and developers with developers, but this was a whole new dynamic.
So first, let me encourage you to move beyond your traditional working model and try matching up developers and testers to get your test automation effort rolling. It really amazed me to see how well that worked.
Secondly, let me make an announcement. We'll be offering a discount on future training classes ~if~ you pair your developers and testers. I think the class will be much more effective for you and more fun for the entire group. Future course listings can be found at our website NFJS One. Also, a new and improved website is in the wings! Check back soon.
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