In this episode Matthew and Federico sit down with Damian Edwards to talk about his experience working for a company that writes functional tests as part of their development cycle. Damian is a new Program Manager in the Visual Web Developer team and used to work for Readify, a consulting company.

Interview with Damian Edwards

• Introduction
• Types of testing that an agile team can do.
  • Unit testing
  • Integration testing.
  • Functional testing
  • Performance/Load testing.
• Working on a team that releases to web every week.
  • Who is responsible for what type of testing?
  • One week is too small of a time to do dev and test work.
  • Developers implement features in one week, testers test it the next.
  • What happens if a tester finds a bug?
• Using functional automated tests.
  • Is there enough time for testers to write them?
  • What automation framework did you use?
  • How did you deal with fragile tests?
  • Making markup easier to automate vs. making markup minimal for client.
• Links
  • http://www.graysonline.com/
  • http://webassert.codeplex.com/
  • http://webformsmvp.com/
  • http://damianedwards.wordpress.com/
  • http://twitter.com/DamianEdwards