Lindsay Ratcliffe, experience designer with ThoughtWorks, talks about a book she recently co-authored, “Agile Experience Design. This is the missing book about agile that shows how designers, product managers, and development teams can integrate experience design into lean and agile product development.
This video argues that traditional usability testing is too slow to properly support an iterative approach to product design. He presents the “design checkpoint” as a complementary activity: an informal exercise in which 1 designer meets with 1 user for 1 hour every 1 or 2 weeks. [youtube WgxKyuglbT8]
This video presents a collaborative approach to the scaling of innovative user experience design on enterprise-strength RIAs delivered using Agile methodology. Learn the techniques technical and UX teams have evolved to successfully solve the dichotomy between iterative development’s “release early and often” approach and the big upfront design more typically …
GWT has a lot of little-publicized infrastructure that can help you build apps The Right Way: test-driven development, code coverage, comprehensive unit tests, and integration testing using Selenium or WebDriver. This session will survey GWT’s testing infrastructure, describe some best practices we’ve developed at Google, and help you avoid common …
Molybdenum is web UI testing made easy. Capture and replay, modularized and maintainable tests with bricks, data binding with external files, reporting with simple rerun possibilities, test other media than HTML like PDF with helper applications. It provides integration into build tools like ANT and Maven. Molybdenum is based on …
In this webcast we’ll introduce Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Jasmine (a BDD framework for JavaScript); install Jasmine and add related code to the app to support BDD; discuss how to write a failing test first, then add functionality to make a test pass; and finally we’ll develop a simple …
