Reduce Manual Test Technical Debt
December 21st, 2009
Teams that have relied mostly or entirely on manual testing prior to adopting Scrum can follow a three-step process to extricate themselves from the technical debt.
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The Forgotten Layer of the Test Automation Pyramid
December 17th, 2009
An effective test automation strategy calls for automating tests at three different levels.
Why I Define Agile in Terms of Results
December 3rd, 2009
Not everyone agrees with my definition of Agile.
Dave Nicolette commented that he thinks my definition actually describes Lean. He defines Agile in terms of the Agile Manifesto.
I replied to Dave elsewhere, but wanted to post my response here too since this is a topic that comes up frequently.
I have trouble defining Agile solely in [...]
New Look & Feel
November 23rd, 2009
I knew I should have updated my WordPress installation. But it seemed like I always had something more urgent on my plate. I’ve been living in Quadrant 1 for too long. Quadrant 2 tasks—those that are important but not (yet) urgent—have languished until, through the natural course of events, they became urgent. Like, oh say, [...]
Test-Driven Development with Legacy code - an introduction
November 20th, 2009
A great, easy to understand example of how to approach TDD when dealing with legacy code. Here’s an extract from the article, click the link below for the full article:
Test-Driven Development, or TDD, is often quoted as an essential Agile best practice, and so it is. It works wonders on green-fields projects and new code [...]
My PNSQC Keynote with Agile Timeline
October 29th, 2009
A few days ago, I tweeted that I was looking for nominations for events for an Agile timeline and am extremely grateful for all the responses I received.
The request was for the keynote talk that I just presented at PNSQC. I’ve had several requests for the timeline that resulted, so I figure the easiest (and [...]
Specialized Test Management Systems are an Agile Impediment
October 6th, 2009
If you work in an Agile organization and are using a heavy weight specialized tool for test management, I have an important message for you:
Stop. Seriously. Just stop. It’s getting in the way.
If you are accustomed to heavyweight test management solutions, you might not realize the extent to which a test management tool is more [...]
Adventures with Auto-Generated Tests and RSpec
September 5th, 2009
This post started out as a quick little entry about a cool parlor trick you can do with RSpec to make it work for auto-generated test data. But in the middle of writing what was supposed to be a simple post, my tests found a subtle bug with bad consequences. (Yeah for tests!)
So now this [...]
Not Exhaustively Tested
September 1st, 2009
It sounds like Joe Stump is having a bad time of it right now.
Joe Stump, formerly of Digg, left Digg to co-found a Mobile games company. They released the first of their games, Chess Wars, in late June.
Soon after, new players found serious problems that prevented them from playing the game. In response, the company [...]
Creating an Immersive Agile Training Space
July 30th, 2009
I’ve been hinting about a new venture on Twitter, and it’s time to explain what’s going on.
I’m in the process of opening a new office. Or rather, my company, Quality Tree Software, Inc. is opening a new space in our current building in Pleasanton, CA.
It’s 1200 square feet of open-layout-Agile-goodness. When it’s done, it will [...]