The Cucumber Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers is a solid introduction to Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATTD) using Cucumber. Cucumber is a popular open source framework for Behaviour Driven Development (BDD). Although it’s written in Ruby, you can apply it to non-Ruby development as well. You may even use one of the Cucumber bindings to write the test implementations in your language of choice.

The Cucumber Book was written by Matt Wynne and Aslak Hellesøy, the two authors of the framework. The book is intented for developers and QA folks interested in acceptance testing. Cucumber is used as an example tool but not required to understand or apply the concepts explained.

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Lee Copeland is a consultant in the areas of testing methodologies, test management and web site testing at Software Quality Engineering. He has developed and taught a number of training courses focusing on software testing and development issues.

A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design is a good entry-level book to software test design. Its language is clear and usually easy-to-understand, but it’s often too didactic. If you’ve already been in the field for some years now, there’s a chance you won’t learn much from this book.

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Presentation from Agile Saturday VII, Tallinn, Estonia, 12/05/2012

Our company is almost 6 years old now. It was founded on agile principles and grew up on them. We’ve used Extreme Programming from day 1, immixed some Scrum ideas later on and switched to Kanban in the end. Here below I’ve tried to review our process changes for the last 4 years.

Everyone is responsible for quality. Tester is not responsible for quality. […] They are responsible for […] making sure the quality of the system is transparent.

An important aspect of Facebook’s development culture is the idea that developers are fully responsible for how their code behaves in production. This philosophy mirrors the “DevOps” movement, which encourages lowering the wall between software development and IT operations.

If any of the code in a Facebook update causes problems in production, the developer who wrote it is on the hook for making sure that the issue gets resolved as quickly as possible.