by Emily Bache | Mar 19, 2021 | Opinion
By Emily Bache There’s a frank discussion going on in the software industry at the moment about the words we use and the history behind them. Perhaps now is a good time to reconsider some of our terminology. For example, I’ve noticed we have several terms that...
by Emily Bache | Aug 11, 2020 | Opinion
By Emily Bache Or: is Given-When-Then Compulsory? In BDD you discover what software you should build through a collaborative process involving both software developers and business people. BDD also involves a lot of test automation and tools like Cucumber and...
by Emily Bache | Aug 8, 2019 | Code Kata
When you inherit difficult code it can take weeks to become productive. Having the right tools for the job and knowing how to use them makes a huge difference. These videos show you how. Note: this post originally appeared here...
by Emily Bache | Feb 22, 2017 | Review
I was in Finland recently, at the European Testing Conference. I both attended the conference and presented a workshop about “Approval testing with TextTest”. I won’t say any more about that, since Ben Linders did a brilliant write-up already that...
by Emily Bache | Oct 10, 2016 | Code Kata
I’ve been favouring an Approval Testing approach for many years now, since I find it pretty useful in many situations, particularly for acceptance tests. Not many people I meet know the term though, and even fewer know how to use the technique. Recently...