Agile testing at Trader Media
Trader Media runs the autotrader.co.uk website, which sees 500,000 unique visitors a day generate 20,000,000 page impressions. When the business decided it was time to re-vamp the platform, they decided they would adopt an Agile delivery methodology to help deliver a huge project with higher quality than before, within budget and on time.
The software was to be crafted using Test Driven Development (TDD) and eXtreme Programming (XP), testing would be automated and run from within a Continuous Integration environment. With all this testing done by the development team, it was hard to see where the QA would fit into the new delivery methodology and how QA would add value. What we didn't know is that QA would have to work harder than ever before.
New tools (selenium/web driver), new frameworks (twist) and new challenges (automated performance testing in a CI).
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ABOUT STUART TAYLOR
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Stuart Taylor is an ISEB certified Test Practitioner and Agile Evangelist, a very technical Internet application tester, team lead, mentor and coach to the development team of autotrader.co.uk. Stuart has worked extensively with web and internet tech
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ABOUT VIVEK PRAHLAD
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Vivek Prahlad is a Technical Lead at ThoughtWorks Studios, where he helps build Twist, a next generation Functional Testing tool. He has been with ThoughtWorks for the past 7 years. During his career, Vivek has been a Technical Lead, Agile Coach and
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ABOUT THE AGILE TESTING UK
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This group aims to provide a meeting place and regular events for anyone involved in testing products which are developed in an Agile environment. Come to meet fellow testers, share stories and experiences about tools and techniques which may, or may not, have solved testing problems on other Agile projects.
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PODCAST AGILE TESTING AT TRADER MEDIA
This session took part at the Agile Testing & BDD eXchange 2010. You can view the other 6 podcasts here.
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