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* Willingness to innovate | * Willingness to innovate | ||
* Wrong organizational assumptions | * Wrong organizational assumptions | ||
| − | What are the "enablers" to ease the transition? | + | '''What are the "enablers" to ease the transition?''' |
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Revision as of 08:01, 29 April 2007
What is the ONE true testing language?
What are the barriers to multi-lingual dev/testing?
- Willingness to innovate
- Wrong organizational assumptions
What are the "enablers" to ease the transition?
- a "champion" person for the technology
- radical vs. progressive change steps
- changing the way people think for sustainability
- "evolution vs revolution"
What makes a good test language?
- expressive
- shows intent
- human readable
- "literate"
- quick to write
- tells you why the tests broke
- easy to maintain/refactor
- facilitates exploratory testing
- no/low "context switch"
- uses a
"full""real" language - natural to extend
- no "mental gymnastics"
