Oct
15
2009
Declan Whelan’s presentation at Agile Testing Days focused on promoting learning in software teams. “Delivering long-term value to our organisation is gated by our ability to learn”, said Whelan, presenting several great ideas how to ensure that teams keep learning and improve. Continue Reading »
Oct
13
2009
Today at Agile Testing Days conference in Berlin, Mike Scott from SQS announced the immediate availability of Testify, an agile TDD toolset installer and project generator. Continue Reading »
Oct
13
2009
During the ‘Agile Quality Management – Axiom or Oxymoron?’ talk at Agile Testing Days today in Berlin, David Evans from SQS talked about several aspects of agile development that often confuse and scare traditional test managers. One of the aspects that was particularly interesting to me is the fact that there is no test management role in agile literature. Test managers are often “afraid that they’ll disappear in a puff of logic when agile testing starts”, said Evans. Continue Reading »
Oct
13
2009
Elisabeth Hendrikson presented a keynote titled ‘Agile testing, uncertainty, risk and why it all works’ today at the Agile Testing Days conference in Berlin, focusing on key practices for agile testing success. Continue Reading »
Oct
13
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 approach can be used to evaluate suppliers who claim to be agile, assess your own project and help at retrospectives.
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