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STARWEST 2007: The Nine Forgettings[presentation] People forget things. Simple things like keys and passwords and the names of friends long ago. People forget more important things like passports and anniversaries and backing up data. |
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
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Customer Advocacy: The Key to Testing Success[presentation] Testing professionals are often viewed as the pessimists of the software world. Some people think testers will do anything to prevent an application’s release into production. |
Theresa Lanowitz, voke, Inc.
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The Coming SOA Revolution: What It Means To Testers[presentation] Applications deployed with service oriented architectures are implemented as producers and consumers of services. |
Frank Cohen, PushToTest
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Why is "Test Driven Development" Not Driven by Testers?[presentation] For years, testers implored developers to do better unit testing. Our pleas fell mostly on deaf ears. Testers were constantly frustrated, finding bugs that should never have escaped the developers. |
Antony Marcano, Testing Reflections
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The Five "Doings" of Software Testing[presentation] As testers, we sometimes are so busy "doing", we forget about the "why’s" and "how's" of what we are doing. |
Mark Fewster and Dorothy Graham, Grove Consultants
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The Neglected Practice of Iteration[article] In this week's column, Jeff Patton sends a reminder that software developers who neglect the practices of "iteration" and "incremental" will get caught either delivering poor quality software or delaying schedules in order to make time to iterate. We kick ourselves, or others, for not "getting [software] right up front" when we all know that the hardest part of software development is figuring out what to build. But there's hope, and it comes in the form of prototypes and frequent iterations. |
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Agile2007 - Ole Jepson - APLN, Agile Certification and the 2007 Conference[article]
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While attending Agile 2007, Bob Payne got the opportunity to sit down with Ole Jepson to discuss agile certifications. This podcast features their conversation held at Agile 2007. |
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Setting Up Global Agile Teams[article] There are no best practices for creating a productive, global development organization, just a few good ideas to think about and tailor around your particular objectives. Consider three universal issues every organization must grapple with to make a global agile team successful: data considerations, communications needs, and a company's agile readiness. How you handle each of these issues will vary widely, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution for every organization. |
David Webb
December 8, 2007 |
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Agile Strategies for Geographically Distributed Quality Management[article] Geographically Distributed Development (GDD) is a common strategy in the software world today. Organizations are gaining experience in developing software globally and are discovering that the competitive demand for best-in-class, high quality applications requires greater agility in quality management. Unfortunately, IT budgets are not keeping up with the staff required for quality management and the response is to accelerate quality management by leveraging global teams. This article compares and contrasts agile GDD testing strategies for affecting quality management. |
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Revisiting Refactoring[article] Refactoring is one of the cornerstones of the technical agile development practices. It is the mechanism that allows the design and architecture of a system to evolve over time. It is one third of the red-green-refactor loop and the core of test-driven development (TDD). But does it really deliver on its promises? |
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Agile is Here to Stay... Now What?[article] Over the course of the past decade, Agile software development has progressed from a grassroots, almost underground movement, to the mainstream. Early successes have paved the way for broader acceptance of Agile principles and practices, facilitating dialogue not only in IT back offices, but corporate boardrooms as well. With an ever-increasing focus on profitability, time-to-market, and customer satisfaction, the vigorous debate over Agile adoption appears to be shifting from a question of "why?" to one of "how?" |
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Collaboration: It's More than Facilitated Meetings[article] Esther Derby has noticed something lately, namely that when people write about collaboration, they discuss facilitated meetings. Well-run meetings that encourage participation and building consensus are certainly valuable, but there's more to collaboration than just well-run meetings. Esther explains that true collaboration assumes shared responsibility and shared ownership and boosts creativity and learning. |
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Pine Needles and Better Communication[magazine] As a new Army Ranger, Payson acquired many hard-earned lessons. But dodging snakes and alligators while navigating a Georgia swamp one moonless night, he learned two lessons in particular that can help project managers navigate their software projects. |
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Taking It Personally[magazine] Ah, the annual review. It's time to find out what your boss has planned for your career over the next twelve months. But wait, it's your career. Don't wait for your employer to direct your growth and development—take responsibility your future. |
Alicia Yanik
November 28, 2007 |
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A Story About User Stories and Test-Driven Development: Into the Field[magazine] Drawing on real events from the authors' combined experience, this story picks up where it left off in the November 2007 issue and follows a fictional team as it encounters some of the pitfalls of using test-driven development. |
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