Posted by Harry Robinson, Software Engineer in Test

The first-ever industry Developer-Tester/Tester-Developer Summit was held at the Mountain View Googleplex on Saturday, February 24th. Hosted by Elisabeth Hendrickson and Chris McMahon, the all-day workshop consisted of experience reports and lightning talks including:

  • Al Snow - Form Letter Generator Technique

  • Chris McMahon – Emulating User Actions in Random and Deterministic Modes

  • Dave Liebreich – Test Mozilla

  • David Martinez – Tk-Acceptance

  • Dave W. Smith – System Effects of Slow Tests

  • Harry Robinson – Exploratory Automation

  • Jason Reid – Not Trusting Your Developers

  • Jeff Brown – MBUnit

  • Jeff Fry – Generating Methods on the Fly

  • Keith Ray – ckr_spec

  • Kurman Karabukaev – Whitebox testing using Watir

  • Mark Striebeck – How to Get Developers and Tester to Work Closer Together

  • Sergio Pinon – UI testing + Cruise Control

There were also brainstorming exercises and discussions on the benefits that DT/TDs can bring to organizations and the challenges they face. Several participants have blogged about the Summit. The discussions continue at http://groups.google.com/group/td-dt-discuss.

If you spend your days coding and testing, try this opening exercise from the Summit. Imagine that:

T – – – – – – – – – – D

is a spectrum that has "Tester" at one end and "Developer" at the other. Where would you put yourself, and why?