by Emily Bache | Dec 9, 2010 | Conference information
I’ve just been appointed to the role of Industry Programme Chair for XP2011, which will be held in Madrid in May. I’ve been to 7 of the previous 11 XP conferences and I am so pleased to be asked to contribute to the success of the conference this year by...
by Emily Bache | Dec 28, 2009 | Coding Skills
I recently read this post in Brian Marick’s blog, and it set me thinking. He’s talking about a test whose intention in some way survived three major GUI revisions. The test code had to be rewritten each time, but the essence of it was retained. He says: I...
by Emily Bache | Dec 10, 2009 | Opinion
Today I listened to a presentation about “Scrum for Managers” from Jens Östergaard. He’s a big, friendly Dane who grew up in Sweden, and now lives in the UK. I first met Jens at XP2003 in Genoa, when he had just run his first successful Scrum...
by Emily Bache | Nov 22, 2009 | Review
It’s Java Forum next week, here in Göteborg. I’m giving a short talk about TestNG, a tool I’ve been using lately.My basic conclusion is that TestNG is a very easy step from JUnit, and one you don’t need to take if all your tests are true unit...
by Emily Bache | Apr 21, 2009 | Experience Report
Recently I’ve had the priviledge of working with a team of developers where I sit in the same room as half of them, and the other half are in China. My role is to help them to develop a suite of automated system tests alongside the production code. After a few...
