Automated testing is one of the newer areas of software testing which is evolving fast. Testing an enterprise web application is a huge task because there might be hundreds of stories to test on each browser. This is where automated testing ...Read More
Month: February 2012
Agile UX safari
Around fifty UX Agilistas descended on Caplin’s London office yesterday for an Agile UX Meetup event. It was great to see Martyn Jones from Mind Candy again as I enjoyed the previous event they had hosted. A small army ...Read More
Story Maps and SpecLog (Story Maps part 3)
Story maps were an often mentioned conceptual tool at the Agile and BDD one day mini conference of 7 sessions in one location. See skillsmatter for the program and ...Read More
Recommendations from inside an Agile UX environment
One year ago I joined Caplin as a UX designer. It was my first experience working on a true Agile environment and it took me some time getting used to, but I believe it can be done. The list below collects ...Read More
What do designers keep in their toolkit?
I previously posted a twin infographic of the developer's toolkit. Here we move on to look inside a designer's toolkit. The sampling here is even narrower - only 180 designers… so it's a little small for any ...Read More
Project Dashboard – Part 1
With dozens of products in development at any one point in time, staying informed of the overall health of current projects can be like trying to count cards at a 6 deck blackjack table while the croupier sings the 12 days ...Read More
QA Brown Bag Sessions
A Brown Bag session, seminar or lunch is a very informal meeting held during a lunch break to discuss or present various topics. Considering the QA team is distributed across different project teams, it is not always easy ...Read More
Issues with Story Maps (Story Maps part 2)
Click here for Part 1: Stories & Story Maps There are two challenges with story maps that we seem to continually face:1. ...Read More
What do developers keep in their toolbox?
I just discovered a website called bestvendor.com that let's you find the 'best' work apps based on the recommendations and experience of your peers (or at least your peers that have been on bestvendor.com)I like these crowdsourced comparison tools for ...Read More
Server Scalability – HTML5 websockets vs Comet
There's an interesting discussion over on stackoverflow about server scalability and HTML5 WebSockets vs Comet. I have blogged in the past on the topic of server performance and about WebSocket and have just ...Read More