Episode 3 - Magic Numbers
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3rd Video! And you can hear it in two ears! Man, this technology rocks!
This time Roy and Gil talk about Chris Ashton’s “It’s OK not to write unit tests” post and the retaliatory post by Uncle Bob. Cory Haines has Kata Casts. We’re taking a couple of things from the Google testing blog, like cost of testing and the new matcher feature in the Google mocking framework.
Also, on the cost savings, there’s Thomas Weller’s post (look for it in the middle, but the rest of the post is cool too). We talk about agile testing discussed at TestThisBlog and the Agile Testing blog. Jamie Cansdale’s new feature in TestDriven.Net and James Bach new article on Exploratory Testing Dynamics.
This time we also have an mp3 voice-only download, for all of you who can’t look at us anymore, but find our voices intoxicating. As always tell us you love us and spread the word! And there’s a place in the comments to let us know what you really think.
Reader Comments (6)
I like your line "new words on old things." It's important to understand that my community is not "inventing" exploratory testing. We're trying to understand it better, do it better, and teach it better.
The Exploratory Dynamics document is an attempt to unpack what actually happens when a great exploratory tester does his thing.
Opps, just noticed the mp3 downloadable file :o)
I was watching the lamest test web cast and I wished of mp3 file to listen to while driving.
Good stuff
Thank you Gil for hinting about TestDriven.Net Add-in.
I didn't know it has an integrable test runner for different testing frameworks.
I had that wish on the previous web cast, I got this wish come true on this web cast :o)
Hi Gil & Roy,
You guys are hilarious! We need more test-related podcasts. Thanks for doing this. Your content is a bit out of my league perhaps but I'll watch you.
Thanks for the shout out on my testthisblog post, even if you disagreed. My point was that Agile is mostly about process. The actual act of testing remains the same no matter what process or fun words you wrap it in.
I'm not sure why you picked that post when there are so many more interesting posts on my blog, IMHO. I guess that proves my point. People see the word "Agile" and they get all happy, like a bird seeing something shiny. When I see that word it's like hearing the annoying song again, coming from the ice cream truck driving circles around my house.
Hey, guys,
Thanks for mentioning the katacasts. With a callout like that, I guess I'm definitely going to have to do the string calculator kata. :)
Hey, guys!
Well, true to my word, I posted a katacast for the string calculator. Would love to hear some feedback on it.
http://katas.softwarecraftsmanship.org/?p=80