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Another problem with BDD?

I don’t know if it is, but I enjoyed Michael‘s post on problematic uses of ‘should’ in requirements.  Enjoy.

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Secret testing

Another year rolls by, and James Bach’s latest post reminds me that bugs are all around (and can stay hidden for a really long time until somebody exercises the conditions to reveal them). In that spirit, take the time to read about my favourite related bug story at snopes.com. From some relatively recent experience, I’m […]

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Software Test Professionals interview online

I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago by Matt Heusser for a podcast on the website Software Test Professionals.  The podcast is now online at http://www.softwaretestpro.com/Item/4913/Twist-11—Twist-down-under!/

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More Haiku

I’ve updated my ‘Essence of agile’ haiku page with a couple of new ones.  I think I’m counting one of them as post-agile.  I expect there will be more as I work through my own post-agile principles.

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I'm still on holiday…

Things should resume soon.  I’m touring the Korean countryside and should be back at work mid-November.  Until then, expect this site to be quiet.  You can follow updates at http://www.twitter.com/xflibbleinkorea/, or http://www.quinert.com/korea/

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Context-driven testing website update

I may be a bit slow, but when checking the links in my last post, I noticed that there have been updates to the Context-driven website. It’s worth a read – http://www.context-driven-testing.com. You can see the old version at http://web.archive.org/web/20020727051040/http://www.context-driven-testing.com/

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I will be attending STANZ 2009

I hadn’t originally planned to go to the STANZ conference this year, but at the last minute they added two additional keynote speakers, James Bach and Julian Harty of Google, and it’s hard to pass up an opportunity to catch up with James when he’s in the country. Also, as someone aligned with the Context-driven […]

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Big XML files, REXML and learning about stream parsers

After taking the easy route and building some XML check test scripts using Ruby and REXML’s DOM access, I decided that I really didn’t want my computer grinding to a halt for a whole day while it parsed a gig and a half of XML. So it was time to try a streaming parser. Unfortunately, […]

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