Tag Archives | Developer Testing

Teaching programmers to test

By on December 23, 2010 in Best Practices, Management, Tools

Yesterday I started providing short training sessions for agile programmers who need to learn how to test better.
Would you trust a programmer to test your application? It’s like asking a Fox to guard the chicken-house, right? Well, sometimes you don’t have a choice, or you do but that choice is to release the application untested…

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The Power of Empowerment

By on November 23, 2010 in Best Practices, Test Process

Have you ever been on a situation where you need to test 10 things but you have only the time for 6 of them, and on the other hand you look at your development team and 2 programmers are done with all their important tasks and started working on stuff that sits under the “nice-to-have” list (or even worst, they went to the game room to “test the Wii”)? What do you do?

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There is value in changing hats

By on November 11, 2010 in Best Practices, Communication, Test Process

It is important for developers to take responsibility for end-to-end testing tasks once in a while. It helps them to understand what matters to us when we do our job, and maybe even more importantly it teaches them to do their jobs better.

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Why can’t developers be good testers?

By on May 5, 2010 in Management, Test Process

Developers and testers don’t think alike, there are factors that make developers test in a less effective and efficient way than we testers do. Here are some of the reasons why this happens.

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