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In The Brain of Hemal Kuntawala & Michael Wagg: How we build quality software at uSwitch.com

How we build quality software at uSwitch.com
Hemal and Mike will provide an experience report on how we build quality software at uSwitch.com. Around 9 months ago the development team shifted from having a separate QA team to adopting a whole-team approach for building and delivering software with quality baked in. This talk will explain why we made this shift, provide an insight into how we achieved it from a people and process point of view and delve into tooling. This will include: - Why testing along the production line is better than testing end-of-cycle.

- How we make sure we get thorough acceptance criteria up front, before we start development.

- How we automate execution of acceptance criteria with cucumber and watir.

- How we run these continuously in TeamCity.

- Why we stopped using QTP and Selenium.

- How our developers learnt to think like testers.

- Why we stopped using the words 'tester' and 'testing'.

- The importance of BDD for writing testable code.

- How kanban principles help radiate information on development and provide tracking and reporting on quality.

- Peripheral activities that help us continuously release quickly and confidently.

ABOUT HEMAL KUNTAWALA

Hemal's testing pedigree includes consulting with Vizuri (now Sogeti) on various public and private sector projects.
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ABOUT MICHAEL WAGG

Michael is a senior consultant at ThoughtWorks.
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PODCAST HOW WE BUILD QUALITY SOFTWARE AT USWITCH.COM

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	ANTONY MARCANO & RACHEL DAVIES' AGILE QA
	FRANK COHEN'S TEST AUTOMATION BOOTCAMP
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	GOJKO ADZIC'S TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
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	KEVLIN HENNEY'S AGILE DEVELOPMENT
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AGILE TESTING & BDD PODCASTS

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	Product Development in the Land of the Simon Baker : 9th Jul 2010
	Becoming a Lean Startup Damon Morgan : 9th Jul 2010
	Using Kanban to Get Knowledge and Conti Benjamin Mitchell : 9th Jul 2010
	Value Stream Languages Eric Willeke : 9th Jul 2010
	A Kanban Multiverse Karl Scotland : 9th Jul 2010
	acceptance test Gojko Adzic : 10th Jun 2010
	Rethinking Unit Testing in C++ Kevlin Henney : 20th May 2010
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	Agile Business Analysis Antony Marcano : 18th May 2010
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	Frank Cohen's Test Automation BootCamp 2.5 DAY COURSE. Paris, Monday, September 13th
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