I wrote an article about teamwork and effective communication for the latest issue of Agile Record. It’s called The psychology of workgroups. Have a read!
WarmShowers Android app status update
The latest version (1.1.0) should take care of the problems caused by the WarmShowers.org site redesign.
WarmShowers Android app status
The WarmShowers.org website has undergone a redesign recently. Unfortunately some of the functionality that the Android app relies on (most noticeably messaging) has changed, meaning that the app is currently not working properly. I am currently on the road without…
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Splitting Robot Framework tests into batches for parallel execution
If you have been using Robot Framework for a while, chances are that you have racked up a sizable collection of tests. If the majority of these tests are UI tests, executing them in a single batch might take too…
WarmShowers for Android released!
I just released a little pet project of mine to the Google Play market: WarmShowers for Android. The name refers to WarmShowers.org, an online service that connects touring cyclists to people willing to host them for a night or two.…
Agile Business Analysis
I attended the ScanAgile 2012 conference the other day and thought I would reflect a bit here on the talks and workshops that I attended. First up are some thoughts on Chris Matts‘ session on Agile Business Analysis (actually the…
Agile acceptance testing with Robot Framework
I’ve been using Robot Framework for the better part of a year now. Starting out, we used Robot Framework mostly for getting an old legacy web application under test, writing lots of Selenium test cases that excercised the web application’s…
Robot Framework proves its worth
I was recently hired to work on a project that involves a rather complex web application with a ten-year-old codebase and very little in the way of tests. It’s a textbook example of what Uncle Bob would call a “rigid…
About element qualifiers in XMLUnit
While writing unit tests for a piece of XML-generating software I’ve recently come across XMLUnit, which takes XML testing to a wholly different level as compared to simple, bug-prone string comparisons. In general, XMLUnit is a very well-designed tool (kudos…