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Weaving Domain-Specific Language Support into your Automated Testing Tool
Michael Phoenix (SolutionsIQ), Paul Dupuy, Jr. (SolutionsIQ), Rand Huso (SolutionsIQ)
Discovery Sessions · Testing
Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 10
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This facilitated discussion considers the use of domain-specific languages in automated testing tools, and support within these testing tools for domain- specific language extensions. Ideally, acceptance tests are easily readable by the business people that help to specify them. In this way, the subject matter experts can assist in verifying the test content (process flow and expected outcomes), and may use the test script as a type of living, executable requirements document. In order to produce more readable test scripts, testing tools need to support the business terms used on each project. No testing tool can provide all of the business terms out-of-the-box, so the tools need to be created with configurable and extensible support for this type of specialized language.
Michael (Mickey) Phoenix is a Software Development Engineer for SolutionsIQ based in Redmond, Washington, a Certified ScrumMaster, one of the core developers of the open source testing tool StoryTest IQ (STIQ) http://storytestiq.sourceforge.net/, and a practitioner of Agile methodologies since 1999. With over 19 years of software development experience, his roles have included Senior Technical Staff Member, Software Architect, Senior Developer, and Lead Designer. His focus has been on object-oriented design, legacy systems refactoring, and test driven development. Prior to joining SolutionsIQ, Mickey was founder and principal of the consulting firm, Stray Cat Software, and a consultant for IBM’s Integrion online banking initiative. Mickey holds a BA in Psychology, with distinction, and an MS in Computer Science, both from Stanford University, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Paul manages the Internal Consulting & Review department and plays the roles of Agile Coach, Lead Developer, ScrumMaster, and Architect at SolutionsIQ in Seattle. He began developing software professionally in 1984 and made a career of it 11 years ago. Paul has developed and extended applications that span the range from web application to client-server to shrinkwrap software using Microsoft, Java, Python, and web client technologies. He has 5 years of Agile experience and is in hot pursuit of a generalized Agile Pattern Language. Paul created StoryTestIQ and continues to improve it in collaboration with a SolutionsIQ team and the Open Source community.
Rand Huso is a Software Development Engineer for SolutionsIQ based in Redmond, Washington, a Certified ScrumMaster, and a practitioner of Agile methods since 2004. With over 28 years of software development experience, his roles have included Software Architect, Team Lead, Senior Developer, and Lead Designer. He began using Object Oriented methods in 1988 and wrote meteorological forecast and analysis models, designed and built an early cellular base station (1993), a power line communications system (1995), extended T9 for European languages, created a wireless Instant Messenger client (1999), and worked on several projects using Agile methods. Rand holds an MS in Computer Systems from AFIT, Chi Epsilon Pi (Meteorology Honor Society) from Texas A&M University, and a BS in Engineering-Physics from PLU in Tacoma.
