Slides for the Scrum talk at JUG Cologne

The Product Menu – A New Way to Organize Your Product Backlog

For over a year, I am now proud Product Owner of CenterDevice . And all this time I felt bad about myself, how I managed to keep my product backlog in shape. Or rather, how I failed in doing so. Three weeks ago I decided, that it’s not me to blame, but...

• Agile
• Product management
• Agile methods

10.2.2015 | 6 minutes reading time

JBehave Configuration Tutorial

I love JBehave. It’s a great test automation framework that takes full advantage of all the possibilities of the JVM and the plethora of libraries that are available for Java. JBehave makes the transition from natural language style BDD-tests to Java...

• Testing
• Agile
• BDD
• Agile methods
• Java

15.6.2012 | 8 minutes reading time

Codecentric Eurovision Song Contest

Tomorrow, Düsseldorf will host the Eurovision Song Contest and there is literally no way of escaping that topic here. I think it is a great opportunity in Europe to get to know your neighbour countries better and have a lot of fun together. codecentric...

12.5.2011 | 1 minutes reading time

Debugging XPath and CSS locators with Selenium IDE

On the robotframework-users mailing list was a question about how radio buttons can be properly handled with the SeleniumLibrary . There was apparently a problem somewhere in the generated xpath expression, and the user found it difficult to debug where...

• Testing

27.7.2010 | 1 minutes reading time

Who Is Late For Daily Scrum?

The Daily Scrum just takes fiveteen minutes and is the central tool for every agile team, to coordinate and structure the day. You should expect that every minute counts and everybody values the meeting with the priority and usefullness it deserves. ...

• Agile methods

27.7.2010 | 6 minutes reading time

How to Structure a Scalable And Maintainable Acceptance Test Suite

Robot Framework Tutorial Part I: Robot Framework Tutorial – Overview Part II: Robot Framework – A complete example Part III: Robot Framework IDE Part IV: How to Structure a Scalable And Maintainable Acceptance Test Suite Part V: Robot Framework...

• Agile
• Software architecture
• Testing
• Software development

19.7.2010 | 7 minutes reading time

File Downloads With Selenium — Mission Impossible?

When starting to automate acceptance tests that include a web UI, you probably will hit a wall quite quickly: how to verify a document that is available for download against some criteria? If you tried that one you know: doing file downloads automatically...

• Testing

8.7.2010 | 5 minutes reading time

Wrap-Up meettheexperts Agile 2010

Two weeks ago, the first meettheexperts@codecentric took place this year. After successfull events last year, we can conclude not without pride, that again the participants were very happy with the day. Before I drift off into more details about the ...

• Agile
• Community

30.6.2010 | 4 minutes reading time

Survey Result on Usage of TDD

Last week I conducted a little survey. The results I now would like to present and discuss here. In total 17 people shared their opinion. Thank you for taking the time. Of course this cannot lead to statistically sound statements, but we can show tendendcies...

• Agile methods
• Software development
• Test Driven Development

26.5.2010 | 5 minutes reading time

Usage of TDD in practice

How much is TDD used in daily business? How much should it be used? To find that out, I started a little survey. The results will be made public on this blog soon. I’d love to get as much participation as possible, of course 🙂 So please continue reading...

• Test Driven Development

20.5.2010 | 1 minutes reading time

Localizing Your Acceptance Tests With The Robot Framework

When doing acceptance test driven development, the team writes the tests often by first specifying the behaviour, and then supporting that with a table of examples. How that generally works with the Robot Framework, was already described earlier . As...

• Agile
• BDD
• Testing

6.4.2010 | 1 minutes reading time

Taking Remote Screenshots With Selenium And The Robot Framework

.Screenshot are incredibely helpful when doing user interface tests, to get fast feedback why a test has failed. Selenium provides several great opportunities to do exactly that. But, there are many problems related to that at the moment, from which ...

• Java
• Testing

10.2.2010 | 8 minutes reading time

Given/When/Then And Example Tables Using the Robot Framework

When doing ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development) or BDD (Behaviour Driven Development), the following grammar is widely spread to formulate pre- and postconditions of a test: Given: The static preconditionsWhen: The behaviour under test (or that,...

• Agile
• Java
• Testing

16.11.2009 | 5 minutes reading time

Agile Testing Days – Automated Integration Testing in Agile Environments

… by Slobodanka Sersik and Dr. Gerald Schröder The context of this session is a container management system, which is rather big, speaking about 200 person years effort. The model that was used in order to create the test cases included scenarios, steps...

• Framework
• Open Source
• Testing
• Spring

13.10.2009 | 1 minutes reading time

Agile Testing Days – Keynote from Stuart Reid – Investing in individuals...

The keynote starts with our dear agile chicken & pigs story. Pigs are the ones who are fully commited to the projects, all other stakeholders are chickens. Judged from the agenda, this session will be much about required skills and motivation. That sounds...

• Agile
• Agile transformation
• Database
• Testing
• Community
• Programming language
• Software development
• Agile methods
• Java

13.10.2009 | 5 minutes reading time

Agile Testing Days Berlin – Improved Agile Testing using TPI by Cecile...

So, this session is apparently about TPI, and the acronym was now already mentioned a few times, and maybe I should now it, but I don’t. So in contrast to yesterday, where I was expecting everybody to know what BDD is, now I am the one who does not know...

• Agile
• BDD
• Community
• Frontend

13.10.2009 | 5 minutes reading time

Agile Testing Days Berlin, The First Day

The first of the agile testing days has passed. Weeks ago I classified the conference as minor and german. But when I learned at Agile 2009 in Chicago that many people are coming, I suspected that it is going to be bigger and more international than ...

• Agile transformation
• Agile
• Framework
• Community
• Frontend
• Testing
• Agile methods

11.10.2009 | 6 minutes reading time

Melting Icebergs, Devil Ducks and Epics – Agile 2009, Day 2

Was yesterday really only the second day of Agile 2009? Then I have to hurry to write down my impressions, before the next day will have been started. Keynote, by Alistair Cockburn Dr. Alistair Cockburn not just entered the stage, he marched in, accompanied...

• Agile
• CI/CD
• Community
• Project management
• Frontend
• Search
• Agile methods

25.8.2009 | 6 minutes reading time

Masti, Co-Creator, Pair vs. Review, Agile Games – Agile 2009, Day 1

Wow, the weekend and also the first day in Chicago are gone. Even before the conference started, I had the opportunity to meet many people whom I only knew from books and blogs. On Saturday night, shortly after arriving at the hotel, I met Scott Duncan...

• Agile
• Java
• Community
• Agile methods
• Frontend
• Webdevelopment

24.8.2009 | 7 minutes reading time

Meet The Experts – Agility on September, 4th

The first Meet the Experts – Performance took place in June and was a day to remember for all participants and organizers: new contacts were made, new insights and knowledge was gained, interesting discussions were happening – also food, drinks and ...

• Agile transformation
• Controlling
• Data
• Agile
• Java
• Community
• APM
• Frontend
• Training
• Software architecture
• Agile methods
• Webdevelopment

23.7.2009 | 4 minutes reading time

codecentric takes leading role in the Java Community Process

Since the middle of this year, codecentric is contributing member of the Java Community Process in order to pass the company’s expertise on into the process for defining the extension to Java. From today on, codecentric also takes a leading role and...

• Framework
• Java

19.12.2008 | 1 minutes reading time

Codecentric Presents Scrum for Virtual Teams at JUG Cologne

The JUG Cologne invited me to one of their regular meetings. On August, 11th I will present the experiences I made as Spec-Lead for Java Specification Request 264, which is the Order Management API , when introducing Scrum to the expert group. After...

• Java
• Community
• Agile methods
• Webdevelopment

22.7.2008 | 1 minutes reading time