The first-ever industry Developer-Tester/Tester-Developer Summit was held at the Mountain View Googleplex on Saturday, February 24th. Hosted by Elisabeth Hendrickson and Chris McMahon, the all-day workshop consisted of experience reports and lightning talks including:
Al Snow - Form Letter Generator Technique
Chris McMahon – Emulating User Actions in Random and Deterministic Modes
Dave Liebreich – Test Mozilla
David Martinez – Tk-Acceptance
Dave W. Smith – System Effects of Slow Tests
Harry Robinson – Exploratory Automation
Jason Reid – Not Trusting Your Developers
Jeff Brown – MBUnit
Jeff Fry – Generating Methods on the Fly
Keith Ray – ckr_spec
Kurman Karabukaev – Whitebox testing using Watir
Mark Striebeck – How to Get Developers and Tester to Work Closer Together
Sergio Pinon – UI testing + Cruise Control
There were also brainstorming exercises and discussions on the benefits that DT/TDs can bring to organizations and the challenges they face. Several participants have blogged about the Summit. The discussions continue at http://groups.google.com/group/td-dt-discuss.
If you spend your days coding and testing, try this opening exercise from the Summit. Imagine that:
is a spectrum that has "Tester" at one end and "Developer" at the other. Where would you put yourself, and why?
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