• Dark Patterns For Disabled People

  Years ago, I wanted to buy a car, so I tested the car. Everything went smooth, until I drove fast. “Huh?”. The sound of the car was different. I could not figure out why. Afterwards I told the owner about this strange sound. His reaction was: “The car has winter tires.” I was driving in … Continue reading Dark Patterns For Disabled People →

  30.11.2021 | 12:37 קרא עוד...

• Agile Testing Days 2021 – 1 of ? – Asking new questions

  I haven’t made time to blog here much this year because of pair blogging with Janet Gregory on AgileTestingFellow.com, along with other writing commitments. I want to write about some of my Agile Testing Days 2021 takeaways, to reflect on them and reinforce them in my own head. So here goes. Might be the only one I get done, yet I do have lots of takeaways I’d like to write about! I was so happy to see Jutta Eckstein was doing a keynote at ATD. It’s about time! Jutta inspired me in the early days of Extreme Programming. She was a pioneer in applying agile values and principles to large enterprise organizations. Last summer, I participated in one of her Bossa Nova workshops on enterprise agility, and it resonated so much with me. Even with my high expectations, I was blown away by Jutta’s keynote on sustainability. She urged us Question Askers to change the questions we ask. How does our product, our company, affect people and the planet? What economic impact, perhaps unintended, are we having? Looking at agile principles from these different viewpoints definitely leads to new conversations. Watch for diversity, equity, inclusion. What gates in our employment pipeline are keeping people out? Are we accountable for energy consumption? Are we responsible for our product causing harm? And we have a new principle to live by – Eckstein’s Law: “An organization produces a design that reflects the organization’s biases.” If this makes you think of Conway’s Law –[…]

  30.11.2021 | 9:21 קרא עוד...

• Check the Effectiveness of Your Automated Tests

  Have you ever found yourself working on an automated test suite and wondered if it's worth the effort? It's probably a typical thought that goes through the minds of every developer and tester working on test automation. Even in all of my years of building and maintaining automated tests, I admittedly find myself thinking this way occasionally, wondering if there's a better use of time elsewhere on the project.Whenever I notice teams of developers and testers not putting any emphasis on test automation, it's usually because there's a level of uncertainty in the effectiveness of automated tests. The team might think it would help their work but can't or won't dedicate some time to know for sure. Worse yet, some teams believe that test automation is an added burden to the software development and testing process with little to no reward. These developers and testers proceed with the belief that they can deliver quality work faster by skipping these types of tests.Even teams with a solid test automation strategy in their workflow have some reservations about the effectiveness of their test suite. They can't figure out how to gauge the success of their testing work and try to find ways to measure it, like counting the number of automated test cases or keeping track of code coverage. While these seem like good metrics, they're not as valuable as you might think.If you're in a team trying to determine if your test automation work is worth the effort, how can you[…]

  30.11.2021 | 5:00 קרא עוד...

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