Agile 2009 - Behavior Driven Development

Selenium and JBehave : A surprisingly successful shotgun wedding

paul Hammant — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:59:23 +0000

Selenium is the 800lb gorilla of open source web application testing. For four years it has been steadily gaining a following and making a difference for corporations large and small. Such tools have always been a trap for adept Agile teams though. Too often teams rely on functional testing and skimp on the much more effective ‘small’ unit tests. Now with JBehave steering Selenium, we’re seeing test scripts emerge that engage formerly perplexed management and business folks. The time has come for this type of tool pairing to be valued for its role in validating Agile in the enterprise

Feature Injection A Gentle Introduction

KentMcDonald — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:04:24 +0000

Despite what you may have heard, analysis is still an important aspect of projects done in an agile manner. Teams still need to understand what they are delivering in what order. The trick is to how to utilize traditional analysis techniques without introducing the corresponding waste that can be experienced with those techniques. In this session, we introduce Feature Injection and demonstrate how it combines traditional analysis techniques and the agile technique Behavior Driven Development to identify the business value delivered by a project without introducing analysis paralysis.