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Hi All: My last (!) class in the MS at St Thomas: Quality Assurance. Its theme is the 'old industrial model' of lots of test plans, full test departments,...
Stephen, Your agile model is close, but you seem to be missing the customer. The development team should be part of a larger effort to accomplish something of...
Mary: Thanks for your response. Yes, I forgot to specifically state the customer. I guess I started from the 'old industrial model' and mentally moved to the ...
Stephan - The key difference between agile and traditional approaches is that Agile does testing concurrently with development, traditionally, testing is done ...
... Hello Steph, The above was the exact objective in my mind while I was completing the course last semester. When I started the course my frame of mind was :...
Tom: Thank you for your response. Do you see the role of integration testing (as opposed to unit tests) being a specialized role in say a SCRUM team? One...
Stephen, I will jump in and say that there is no one size fits all. I see great variation within successful project communities. From a specialized role done...
David: Thanks for a true definition of Agile: everyone on the team pitches in and does what needs to be done. (Sounds like Lake Woebegone!). Thanks, Steph T...
I'll jump in, too - I would think that David's phrase is not a definition, but a loose set of values/principles that a development team accepts and commits-to....
...a thought and a question... While the team members in an Agile environment can contribute in better ways towards Quality (QC specifically when talking of...
Found an interesting discussion thread on Agile Forums site. Back in 2006 this question of Quality Assurance in Agile was raised. Some interesting points that...
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See the discussion listed below. The author pulls out interesting points from hardware engineering and sees parallels to software engineering. SEE: ...