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Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, volume 1 BETA2 release
30 June 09 06:30 PM

Today I am pleased to announce the release of the beta2 of the first volume of our Acceptance Test Engineering Guide . We are getting closer to “done”. As it became apparent that the primary reader personas for each part in the original guide (that was Read More...

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News: Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance BETA1
31 October 08 06:46 PM

I am pleased to announce the release of the Acceptance Test Engineering guide BETA1. You can download it from http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance Common Scenarios Addressed: How to Plan for Acceptance Testing What Kinds of Acceptance Tests to Run How Read More...

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Acceptance Test Engineering guide - How to Decide if Software is Ready for You or Your Customer - Community Preview 2 released
06 August 08 08:32 AM

On Monday, we released our CTP2 on Codeplex: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance . You’ll see it now includes the consumption model and also some recommendations on how to read the guide. There are three parts. Part I. Narratives and Models - this is Read More...

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Do you have testing problems?
26 June 08 05:58 PM

In our quest to produce actionable acceptance testing guidance , we are looking for hard-to-test scenarios from real world projects so that we could test our guide against them. We would appreciate if you shared your testing problems with us. For example, Read More...

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Upcoming conferences - where I'll be (May - Oct 2008)
31 May 08 08:45 AM

Tech-Ed 2008 Developers , June 2-6, Orlando, FL. I’ll be giving a talk on the Enterprise Library (DVP02-TLC). I’ll be also hanging out in the exhibition areas (mainly, Process & Project Management (DVP- VSTS 2008)). CAST 2008 , July 14-17, Toronto, Read More...

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What does "done" mean to you?
22 May 08 07:30 AM

We have posted a short survey on the practices of acceptance testing that I would like to invite you to answer. Your thoughtful responses will help us focus the guide on issues that matter to you. Your input is critical. If you feel particularly strongly Read More...

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Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance - project kick-off
08 April 08 11:07 AM

Traditionally, p&p primary audience included developers and architects. Even though we have some coverage of the testing discpline (in particularly Testing .NET Application Blocks - Version 1.0 guide and Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications Read More...

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Tests and Requirements, Requirements and Tests: A Möbius Strip
22 January 08 02:43 PM

Over a year ago, Robert Martin and I wrote a paper on exploring and disambiguating requirements with acceptance tests. In it we formulate the equivalence hypothesis - as formality increases, acceptance tests and requirements become indistinguishable. Read More...

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