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  • Lisa Crispin’s talk on defect management techniques for agile teams stirred some emotions at StarEast in early May. The idea that a team might not necessarily need a tool to track defects was, it seems, pure heresy. Luckily there were no calls to burn the witch, but many people at...

    Bug statistics are a waste of time

    Lisa Crispin’s talk on defect management techniques for agile teams stirred some emotions at StarEast in early May. The idea that a team might not necessarily need a tool to track defects was, it seems, pure heresy. Luckily there were no calls to burn the witch, but many people at...

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  • My visualisation question has, thankfully, caused quite a lively discussion on several mailing lists and forums. Here is a bit of a summary of where the discussion is going.

    Visualising quality: initial ideas

    My visualisation question has, thankfully, caused quite a lively discussion on several mailing lists and forums. Here is a bit of a summary of where the discussion is going.

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  • Yesterday at AltNetUK Openspace Coding Days we repeated the TDD as if you meant it exercise, originally organised by Keith Braithwaite at the Software Craftsmanship 2009 conference. This gave me a chance to once again go back to the problem, but from a completely different perspective.

    TDD as if you meant it – revisited

    Yesterday at AltNetUK Openspace Coding Days we repeated the TDD as if you meant it exercise, originally organised by Keith Braithwaite at the Software Craftsmanship 2009 conference. This gave me a chance to once again go back to the problem, but from a completely different perspective.

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