Nat and I gave a talk at the most recent London Geek Night. It was an introduction to our approach to Test-Driven Development, incidentally making the point that some of the state- vs. interaction-based TDD wars are a bit specious; it's a matter of picking the right tool for the job. We had a good crowd and some useful questions. Afterwards, there was a Code Dojo in which Nat took part while I got stuck at the back talking to people. Thanks again to our hosts for an interesting evening.

Testing started simply.  Developers would run their code after they wrote it to make sure it worked.  When teams became larger and code more complex, it became apparent that developers could spend more time coding if they left much of the testing to someone else.  People could specialize on developing or testing.  Most testers in the early stages of the profession were manual testers.  They played with the user interface and made sure the right things happened.

"RRDtool is the Open Source industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. It stores the data in a very compact way that will not expand over time, and it can create beautiful graphs."

This post is largely copied from Cem Kaner's blog because I saw no need to re-write the same information :)

You’ve read about the Association for Software Testing’s free software testing courses. Now find out how you can get involved in teaching these for AST, for your company, or independently. This workshop will use presentations, lectures, and hands-on exercises to address the challenges of teaching online: Becky Fiedler, Scott Barber and I will host the Live! AST Instructors’ Orientation Course Jumpstart Tutorial On July 17, 2008, in conjunction with this year’s Conference of the AST (CAST).