XP and Agile techniques not only have an impact on the way you develop software but also on the way the software is tested. While there are some who are excited about XP notions of 100% Test automation, there are others who feel that such an approach does not work in the real world.

Jonathan Kohl talks at length about the good and bad of the XP and Agile notions of software testing. Jonathan is a well known writer on software testing issues and has worked extensively as a tester on conventional software projects as well as scrum and extreme programming (XP) teams. He also shares his views on Ruby and the Ruby based Watir testing tool.