Craig is at the YOW! Connected conference and talks to Mark Pedersen, the CTO at KJR, and they talk all things quality and testing:

• the changing role of a tester in an Agile environment, it clarifies the role rather than making it blurrier
• in an Agile environment it does not make sense to have a Test Manager role anymore
• the number of dedicated testing roles are decreasing, but becoming more important and valuable
• most organisations say that they use both waterfall and agile frequently
• build your skills in either a quasi analysis / product owner / acceptance criteria role or get up to speed with sensible technical automation tools for your tech stack
• TDD – good idea but not many organsations practicing it in a dedicated way, unit testing in most industries is a luxury
• BDD – does not make TDD obsolete, defining acceptance criteria upfront helps understand…

At the YOW! Connected conference, Craig sits down with Chris van Raay and Tom Brodhurst-Hill and talks about bridging the gaps between developers and designers:

• Chris van Raay talk “Bridging the Designer – Developer Divide“
• Tom Brodhurst-Hill talk “Design Driven Mobile Development“
• Typically most organisations have separated development and design teams which results in a very linear process
• Need simple design documentation as a “single source of truth” because you shouldn’t need to specify styles more than once and it helps reduce effort and obtain a consistent design
• Use tools such as PaintCode to create a colour palette which serves as documentation as well as a static analysis test
• Need leadership to ensure there is an agreed approach, set the standards and create discipline
• When building features need to decide when to leave work that is consistent across features, in relation to design, this should be…