I.M. Testy

This week I am in Bad Homburg, Germany where I gave a keynote at the Testing & Finance conference. It was really great to see some very dear friends and meet new colleagues from around the world. Bad Homburg is about 30 minutes by train from Frankfurt, and it is a quaint little town with beautiful parks and Schloss Homburg which was built around 1680 and was the summer residence of the German Kaiser.

Also this week the newest edition of the Automated Software Testing magazine published an article I wrote entitled UI Automation Beneath the Presentation Layer. It discusses some tips on how to use reflection for automating applications developed using managed code. If you have questions or comments about my article please let me know. Your feedback is appreciated.

I have always respected the work of Dion Johnson, and I was quite honored when he asked me to write an article for the magazine. The magazine and the Automated Testing Institute website provide a wonderful resource to people interested in software test automation. I really look forward to working with Dion and the Automated Testing Institute more closely in the future to provide whatever help I can to this monumental task he has undertaken. I also hope there are others out there who will share some of their ideas as well. I think the days of Not Invented Here (NIH) and I’ve Got A Secret (IGAS) syndrome are becoming issues of the past. We still have too much reinvention and not enough reuse of test code. I think that we have well established there is no single approach to testing that is effective in all contexts. We might approach problems from different perspectives, but I also think that all testers are passionate and have very similar goals of personal and professional improvement. To mature our discipline, and increase our effectiveness in our roles we should collaborate more and pool our resources, and the Automated Testing Institute is a growing community of professionals.

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