05 Aug 2008 Speaking at Agile 2008 Conference, August 6 2:45 PM

This week I am attending the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto. It promises to be a lot of fun and a great opportunity to discover the newest techniques, technologies, ideas, experiences and perspectives in the Agile community.

On Thursday, at 2:45 PM I will be presenting a session on best practices in the field of automated web acceptance testing. I will share the experience of my ThoughtWorks team which turned a 3 hours web acceptance build that was mostly red, into a build that stays green an run under 10 minutes!

I hope this talk will be a great opportunity to learn about your experiences in this field too. Automated acceptance testing is a cornerstone of Extreme Programming and Agile practices. Yet automated web acceptance testing still routinely “sucks” for most projects, so sharing our successes and setbacks will help our community move automated web acceptance testing forward.

Improving the state of automated web acceptance testing is a worthy cause, so much so that Ward Cunningham was kind enough to send me quote reminding us why:

“Whenever we apply more than the most superficial effort programming anything, we will be wasting time unless some of that effort is turned back on the work itself so as to convince ourselves that the whole is sound.” – Ward Cunningham

If quick feedback and high R.O.I web acceptance testing matters to you too, I would love to meet up with you, hear your stories and feedback. Ping me and we’ll figure out the best way to meet while we’re all in the same place!