Archive for October, 2009

  • Ulrich Freyer-Hirtz from SQS presented a talk titled The Agility GPS today at the Agile Testing Days conference in Berlin. His Agility GPS is a “systematic and reproducible approach to position fixing on agile projects”, effectively an evaluation system that tells us how agile we are. According to Freyer-Hirtz, this...

    Agility GPS: where are we on the map?

    Ulrich Freyer-Hirtz from SQS presented a talk titled The Agility GPS today at the Agile Testing Days conference in Berlin. His Agility GPS is a “systematic and reproducible approach to position fixing on agile projects”, effectively an evaluation system that tells us how agile we are. According to Freyer-Hirtz, this...

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  • Lisa Crispin gave a keynote at Agile Testing Days conference in Berlin today, discussing the topic of staffing an agile team with testers, in particular whether any tester can be on an agile team or are agile testers different from the rest. Crispin and Janet Gregory interviewed a lot of...

    Are agile testers different?

    Lisa Crispin gave a keynote at Agile Testing Days conference in Berlin today, discussing the topic of staffing an agile team with testers, in particular whether any tester can be on an agile team or are agile testers different from the rest. Crispin and Janet Gregory interviewed a lot of...

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  • Although Selenium is an essential trace element, it is toxic if taken in excess. That is what Wikipedia has to say on the chemical element Selenium, but pretty much sums up my feelings about the web testing tool of the same name as well. I like very much how easy...

    Putting Selenium in the right place

    Although Selenium is an essential trace element, it is toxic if taken in excess. That is what Wikipedia has to say on the chemical element Selenium, but pretty much sums up my feelings about the web testing tool of the same name as well. I like very much how easy...

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  • The original XP book includes this magical role of Customer (as in On-Site Customer, Customer Tests). Scrum has a concept of a Product Owner, no less mythical than the XP Customer. Both of these roles represent a deus-ex-machina for programming teams, sort of the-rest-of-the-world entity that takes on all the...

    The Mythical Customer Problem

    The original XP book includes this magical role of Customer (as in On-Site Customer, Customer Tests). Scrum has a concept of a Product Owner, no less mythical than the XP Customer. Both of these roles represent a deus-ex-machina for programming teams, sort of the-rest-of-the-world entity that takes on all the...

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