Agile Thoughts
Episodes
007 Size Matters
16 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
At this point, I hope you got the ideas of why overdoing the upper floors of the pyramid will cause it to tumble. In the previous episode I mention...
006 Riddles of the Sphinx and Answers within the Pyramid
02 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sphinx, a mythological creature with the head of a man and the body of a lion, loves to ask questions and demands answers. If you don't answer the...
005 Subcutaneous Tests
12 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Teams have found that just because acceptance criteria COULD be made into hard to maintain and unreliable UI test, many of them actually don't need to...
004 The Pyramid’s Secret Floor
28 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Images of the test automation pyramid are available online and you'll see good agreement that macro tests are at the top and micro tests in the bottom...
003 Macrotests at the Top of the Pyramid
12 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
While the bottom of the test pyramid is biggest enough to house a few soccer fields and a monster truck rally, the top floor of the pyramid only has r...
002 The Pyramid’s Ground Floor
24 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The smallest floor of the pyramid is the top as it's much narrower than the spacious bottom. While the top only has room for a ping pong table and a T...
001 Build a Solid Pyramid
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
To have sustainable test automation, there is this idea that you need two levels of testing: macrotests, and microstests. The post 001 Build a Solid P...