Testing PyTDDmon

One of the things I like about GothPy is that lots of the people in the group enjoy writing code in their spare time, and like to share with us what they’re up to.A little while back, Olof came up with this little tool, PyTDDmon, which is to help you when...

big UI changes and their effect on tests

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...

PyUseCase 3.0

Geoff has been working really hard for the past few months, writing pyUseCase 3.0. It has some very substantial improvements over previous versions, and I am very excited about it. He’s written about how it works here.It’s a tool for testing GUIs with a...

Jens Östergaard on Scrum

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...

TestNG – my opinions

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...