Dec 10 2009
Here’s a video of my presentation on challenging requirements at the Agile Testing, Specifications and BDD exchange last month. I talk about problems with requirements gathering processes established in the industry and offer ideas to improve that.
Dec 08 2009
Dan Rough, Rob Bowley, Hibri Marzook and others from 7Digital presented an experience report of agile adoption by the services team at 7Digital, a media distribution company, today at XPDay 09. What’s really interesting about this experience report, compared to others at technical conferences, is that their CEO and commercial director were sitting on the panel. Continue Reading »
Nov 23 2009
Southland Tales, an apocalyptic sci-fi/drama/spoof/political satire written and directed by Richard Kelly, is a movie that all software team leaders and product owners should be aware of. They should carefully study this forgotten piece of recent film history and learn valuable lessons from it. They should do so not because of the great visual effects or the plot, but because of the story of the movie production, its release and utter commercial failure. Continue Reading »
Nov 11 2009
I got this e-mail from a reader today:
I don’t know how can I test asynchronous systems. We develop Voice Communication System applications and everything is based on (asynchronous) request-response. I’m trying to write unit tests for such application [...] What is the preferable way to do it? Here I think I must test the whole system chain…
Oct 29 2009
At the agile testing user group meeting yesterday in London, Hemal Kuntawala talked about development strategies and process improvements at uSwitch.com over the last year or so. The start of his experience report reminded me very much of several teams I’ve seen over the last few years, with a process that is seemingly agile with lots of good ideas but also a ton of problems. Judging by the reactions from the audience the situation is very common in development shops today, so his success story is sure to be very encouraging to lots of people out there. Continue Reading »
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