I have been working on a tool called Lucid which is, in many ways, almost a direct port of the popular tool Cucumber. I do believe tools with humanizing and fluent interfaces are key to the future of testing. Here … Continue reading
I’ve always been interested in the different ways that testers think and how those modes of thinking directly apply to the work testers do. What it comes down to for me is how people learn. This ultimately impacts how they … Continue reading
Regarding my post on Seeking Requirements in TDL, a comment was made regarding the question of whether or not I was focusing on the conditions as part of the scenario and whether or not this tied into how I view … Continue reading
Regarding my previous post on this subject, a tester I work with asked me a great question regarding the readability of the TDL and the ability to discern the actual requirements from it. This post is essentially what my answer … Continue reading
The goal of a TDL is to put a little structure and a little rigor around effective test writing, wherein “effective test writing” means tests that communicate intent (which correspond to your scenario title) and describe behavior (the steps of … Continue reading
A TDL (Test Description Language) is a constructed language that we use to describe, and thus specify, our requirements as tests. Or our tests as requirements, if you prefer. This is what allows testing to be a design activity. What … Continue reading
In this post I’ll continue what I started in the previous post: using Sass. We’ll explore a different option around how to use this engine. Also, while I’ve focused on changing the CSS and HTML elements of our application, I’ve … Continue reading
In this post I want to switch around some of what we already did regarding HTML and CSS, by using “variants” of these. Specifically, I’ll look at Slim (to replace our HTML/ERB) and Sass (to replace our CSS).
Following on from the other posts in this series, here I want to focus more on the static and dynamic content aspects. This will actually be fairly tame stuff for the most part but it’s a way to make sure … Continue reading
Here I want to focus more on the particulars of constructing a Sinatra web application. Up to now you basically have something that can serve up static or dynamic web pages. It’s time to get an application structure in place. … Continue reading