Testing, Waterfall, Agile, Mindset, Mainframe... - My thoughts
During the week of the 11th of March 2018, I had the great opportunity to attend to the TestBash Brighton 2018. Day 1 to 3 Automation In Testing Workshop Given by Richard Bradshaw (@FriendlyTester) & Mark Winteringham (@2bittester). Three days workshop,...
Mindset ... nice word... but I think experience grows by listening to the others wherever they come frome... As I said in my first article, my customer has decided (end of last year) that Agile will be our new way of working... I'm happy with this. But......
Automation, yes but of the right validation done at the right place... What are we doing? In March 2017, when we received the trigger "automate everything", we started automated our validations. We are working on mainframe, with lot of files, databases...
Agile Testing Days 2017 - Potsdam In November 2017, I had the opportunity to attend to Agile Testing Days in Potsdam. It was the first time for me, to assist to this kind of event. I went there with the following spirit : "Listen to people who have experience...
2010 - 2017, what have we done? Level 1 In 2010, when I started my "focus on testing" career, I was more involved in "Integration & Assembly Testing" what we can call "technical testing", you don't really care on functionalities you mainly ensure that...
I'm sure you know that most of the time, unit testing on mainframe is just checking basic stuffs and when it runs fine, the developer says "Unit Test Done!" (I know it because I did it 😊 ). But most of the times, afterwards when you start integration...
Hi, I work in IT departments in Banking sector since 1999 (I've worked for 3 major banks in Belgium). I first started as developper (Cobol) and did this for 10 years. In parallel, I was also doing technical and functional designs. From 2010, I'm more...
As explained in my previous post, I followed "Automation in Testing" workshop during TestBash Brighton 2018. It took me several weeks (more than 4) to digest all the information received during the 3 days and one day (a Sunday) I woke up with an idea...