RFI Greg Wilson
The biggest issue for testing tools (not just functional ones, and not just for agile projects) is to get undergraduate students to believe they’re worth using. Even today, most unit tests are written after the rest of the assignment is done (or not at all if they aren’t explicitly worth marks); higher-level testing isn’t done, and higher-level testing tools aren’t used, because students do not believe they actually add value. In order to impact anything more than a minority of true believers, new testing tools must therefore have almost zero cost of entry, and deliver useful results on student-sized assignments the first time they are used. I’d like to explore these issues with workshop participants in order to shape the next generation of tools.
Moderated free-for-all —- I have a lot of experience running large meetings and working groups, and little or no detailed knowledge of the state of the art in functional testing, so I figure I’d be an ideal moderator.