I’ve been meaning to start blogging for quite a while now but just haven’t gotten “a round tuit”. I have lots of excuses including preparing for quite a few conferences as part of my launch as an independent consultant. For those of you who know me as Chief Scientist of ClearStream Consulting in Calgary, Alberta. ClearStream is no longer. Unfortunately, the founder Denis Clelland died in April 2006 and the company hasn’t been the same since. This spring his widow Carol decided to cease operations. All the employees of the company were laid off and have now gone independent.
Being layed off is both a blessing and a curse. The curse is that one doesn’t know where one’s next pay cheque will come from. The blessing is that it opens doors to a range of new opportunities. I’m hoping that this new blog will help open those doors. To that end I’ll be posting my most recent thoughts on the whole area of automated testing as we apply it on agile projects. This will include both traditional unit test automation as part of Test-Driven Development and automated acceptance/customer/functional testing. I also expect to blog a fair bit about test automation strategy including how the unit testing, acceptance testing and other forms of automated testing complement each other.
Tags: agile, automation, strategy, testing
