Author: Mike Salsbury

Absolutely nothing! Say it again! That is certainly the response I got when I asked an architect about code coverage. And it also seemed to be the conclusion from a long email thread/discussion we had ...Read More

Day 1 ended… late. We finished at midnight after the Atlassian guys threw a party with free beer, foosball and a lot of socialising with fellow geeks. Even though it seems like the whole BBC dev team are here they are ...Read More

Morning quick update: A couple of talks we've seen this morning on Java EE 7 and iOS Testing for Banks, as well as the keynote from Barbara Liskov on the history of programming methodology.  Further details on these ...Read More

In the same way that design by contract can work to interfaces, with a new or existing system testing by contract can work to the interfaces between subsystems.  These interfaces are not necessarily coding interface classes, but they are the externally ...Read More

Continuing from part one,  this performance testing blog will concentrate on how to test the System Under Test having already decided what needs to be tested and at what level which was covered in part one. ...Read More

There are many paths which could be followed with performance testing, and this post will attempt to break these down to provide a number of points that should be considered when setting up ...Read More

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

Click here for Part 1: Stories & Story Maps There are two challenges with story maps that we seem to continually face:1. ...Read More

Here at Caplin we use and are constantly evaluating Agile practices and techniques that make software development and maintenance as efficient as possible. In particular to the practice of BDD, which ‘utilises stories ...Read More

Summary of all talks There were 7 talks with 15 minute intervals between each.  The event was sold out, so around 125 attendees.  In general the first five talks seemed the most relevant for us, and in particular ...Read More