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Agile Testing & BDD eXchange 2012: Cirilo Wortel & Arjan Molenaar on Making FitNesse accessible to humans
Making FitNesse accessible to humans
Working in Agile software development just demands that you automate your work and have all stakeholders involved, including business analysts and functional testers.

Once you start working with people that have little or no experience with test automation it becomes painfully clear that collaborative test-automation tools with an intuitive feel to it are practically non-existant.

If you actually get people to use test-automation tools, while the weight should lie on team collaboration and setting up executable specifications, valuable time is lost with markup issues and tool support and often new users get scared of by the tools in-comprehensiveness. Both Arjan and Cirilo, while performing different roles, experienced these frustrations, but also recognized FitNesse has the potential of being a tool suited for bridging the gap and decided to get it into shape.

What does it take to get non-programmers involved in test-automation?

In this presentation Arjan and Cirilo will share their experience with test automation and what it takes to make automation available to non-programmers.

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Practical Agile Testing with Janet Gregory

Janet specialises in showing agile teams how testers can add value in areas beyond critiquing the product; for example, guiding development with business-facing tests. Janet Gregory is the co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams and a contributor to 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know.

This three-day Agile Testing course, authored by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, explains how testers can become valued agile team members, how they contribute to delivering a continuous stream of business value and much, much more. Understand how testers contribute on agile teams, learn how agile teams successfully cover all dimensions of software quality in short release cycles, collaborate to deliver the "right" business value at frequent, consistent intervals.

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Test Driven Development Workshop

Gojko Adzic's two day TDD workshoped, delivered by Damjan Vujnovic, enables you to experience and learn test driven development by doing it. You will be immersed in a realistic TDD project, allowing you to learn the practices and principles of test driven development and try them out in practice. Through facilitated exercises and discussion, you will experience two days of working on an agile test-driven team. You will use and learn basic Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, refactoring and related agile practices such as continuous integration and pair programming. You will understand the reasons behind TDD and experience its benefits first-hand.

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Uncle Bob Martin's Clean Code: Agile Software Craftsmanship

Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organisation to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way?

In this two-day Clean Code Workshop you will learn the principles and practices of Clean Code as described in Robert C. Martin's book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.

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Uncle Bob's Advanced Test Driven Development

An intensely hands-on and exercise driven course that focuses on the design of clean, robust, and maintainable unit and acceptance tests. Students will learn the principles of test design, and the practices of keeping tests clean. More importantly, they will learn the principles of designing applications for testability. Exercises include the refactoring of bad tests, the writing of clean tests, and the design and refactoring of applications to make them testable.

This is a three-day hands-on course in which you will learn the principles and practices of test design and described in Robert C. Martin's book: Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices. You will also receive this book as part of the course materials.

Exercises are in Java, but are applicable to C#, C++, and other object oriented languages.

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Reducing Technical Debt with Michael Feathers

In this course, Michael Feathers will outline what he has learned about making big changes in large software projects. You'll learn techniques all along the continuum of team coordinated refactoring, rewriting, and advanced team practice which help you maximize the potential of your existing team.

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ABOUT CIRILO WORTEL
Cirilo Wortel is a tester and trainer working for Xebia in the Netherlands. For the past six years he has been involved in Agile development working w
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ABOUT ARJAN MOLENAAR
Arjan Molenaar is a software engineer working for Xebia in The Netherlands. In the past 10 years he's been involved in numerous projects ranging from financial systems to embedded applications. H
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PODCAST MAKING FITNESSE ACCESSIBLE TO HUMANS

This session took part at the Agile Testing & BDD eXchange 2012. You can view the other 14 podcasts here.
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