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Learning

Agile Testing Days 2011

From monday to wednesday I had the chance to visit the Agile Testing Days in Potsdam. It was an awesome event: I met a lot of interesting people (delegates, speakers & tutors), had many interesting conversations, met former colleagues, listened to amazing talks, and learned a lot. Far too much to wrap everything up in one blog posting. Therefor I will use this article to list up all the articles about the Agile Testing Days 2011 (#agileTD), the list will be updated as a add articles, so drop in from while to while, or subscribe to the RSS-feed:

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Fun Testing

How to make your bug report most useless for your team mates

The idea of writing a blog post like this was in my mind for quite a while already, but as too often, I was just procrastinating. Today I have been busy retesting (and closing) a lot of items from our defect tracking system (DTS) and started writing down the following items, as I stumbled upon them (and as they came to my mind as I remembered them from previous projects).

Of course I´m exaggerating a bit on some of the listed items, but all of them are real examples of what I´ve experienced in the past. 😉

So here it is, my (not-yet-complete) list of things to do, to make your bug report most useless for your team mates (none ordered):

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Learning Testing

German Agile Testing and Exploratory (GATE) Workshop 2011

Short notice: I will participate at the German Agile Testing and Exploratory (GATE) Workshop 2011 on October 1st & 2nd in Hamburg, Germany. My topics will be „Shared responsibility for quality vs. separate QA teams“.
Other guys participating so far: Markus Gärtner, Maik Nogens, Meike Mertsch, Eusebiu Blindu & Sven Finsterwalder.
More info available on the GATE homepage: www.gate-workshop.de.

I´m looking forward to have a productive weekend full of learning and insights with these guys!

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Allgemein

QuickLinks for August 2011

Here a quick list of articles I´ve read during the last month:

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TestTools

Expand/ Collapse included FitNesse pages in CruiseControl.NET´s web dashboard

In this post I will explaing how to make included FitNesse wiki pages visible in CruiseControl.NET´s web dashboard result page.

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Allgemein

FitNesse & FitSharp: Some troubleshooting (2)

Could not load file or assembly…

When setting up FitNesse & FitSharp for a project recently, I ran into a really strange problem. I tried debugging using FitSharp´s RunnerW.exe and got the following error message:

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TestTools

FitNesse & FitSharp: Some troubleshooting (1)

Debugging FitSharp FitNesse tests

I´ve worked a lot with FitNesse & FitSharp during the last months in several software projects. Until lately it has always been a big pain to solve any problems when no tests have been executed at all when you clicked the „Test“ button in FitNesse or when tests have been executed via commandline, e.g. within the automated build. Most of the times it was more or less guessing in the wild, changing something here, adapting something there, until the tests ran again.

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Testing TestTools

Setting up FitNesse for Team Foundation Server

Lately my colleague Maxence Bonhomme and I set up FitNesse to be used within several .NET projects which are all build on one Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Since it was quite some work to do we documented all the steps, and as it was an official work project, we published the documentation on the Agile Partner blog: Setting up FitNesse for Team Foundation Server.

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Allgemein

QuickLinks for July 2011

Here a quick list of articles I´ve read during the last month:

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Allgemein

In an ideal world…

…when you arrive at the developer´s desk to let him know that his changes have broken the nightly build he tells you, that he´s already fixing the issues.

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