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ElfDustin@...
May 1, 2005 7:19 pm
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I'm not clear on the difference between "QA testing" and "testing". Do you mean testing-that-is-not-unit-testing, ...
High Performance Testing by Scott Barber Executives and managers, get your performance testing teams out of the pit and ahead of the pack. Executives—Start...
Hi Caroline, This might be a good question for the scrumdevelopment list, if you haven't already asked it there. We use Scrum, and we testers are simply part...
Integration in our shop is straightforward: the testers are included in the morning Scrums, and since their work is considered part of the development effort,...
A modification on the stealth method, which I'm currently trying out, with success thus far: ask the team what they want, build a process based on that, ...
That was a neat way to go about trying something new. It sounds like your team really committed to trying a new process. Has to make a huge difference. It...
As a developer who has paired with Janet before I can vouch for her spirit and zest for wanting to sit and pair. I look forward to Janet convincing the entire...
Chris, your idea is an interesting one but I'm not sure we are quite ready to take that step just yet and I'm not really in a position to do it. I think I'll ...
The team was committed to trying _a_ process, there was little to speak of, so that part was in my favor. Yes, they were pretty open although initially pretty ...
Hi, We are a developer of lending solutions looking for an agile/context- driven tester to join an XP team in Melbourne, Australia. You can find the full...
Hi, I have some doubts regarding automatic Functional Test and automatic Unit Test. 1. Why I will do automatic Functional Test if I have automatic unit test...
... Hash: SHA1 ... In my opinion these are orthogonal things. You can have a functional unit tests. Functional vs. structural differentiates if you use the ...
Stefan Wagner
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May 4, 2005 1:59 pm
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... What do you think a Functional Test is? ... Read /Working Effectively with Legacy Code/ by Mike Feathers, and retrofit tests on the server-side, before or...
I could never imaging writing code again with unit tests, and further without taking a "test first" approach. Unit tests functionality at the lowest possible...
Hi all. I'm new to both this group and the process in order to find the response(s) regarding a question previously submitted; how SCRUM and QA testing fit...
If you just go to the messages page in the yahoogroups site, and search on the word 'scrum', you'll see the latest thread on Scrum and testing. Or go to this...
Has there been a thread related to preferences in iteration length? If not, I would like to know what has worked and hasn't worked as far as 2 weeks, 3 weeks,...
We do 2 week iterations and we release internally every 2 weeks. We have a large customer base, and releasing 2-3 times a year is as much or more than most of...
I'll throw this out: anyone who says every shop in the world should use the same iteration length is wrong. :) Try a three week iteration... then try four,...
This sounds sensible to me. My current team started out with 4 week sprints because we were doing Scrum. We weren't good enough to do 4 week sprints, our ...
Hi Having read Testing Extreme Programming I have been interested in looking at the materials referred to at http://xptester.org/. I have been checking back...
Hi Shane, I'm so glad you liked the book! Unfortunately, my co-author was maintaining xptester.org and for whatever reason, he has let it die. The test tool...
... My guess is that faster feedback is [almost] always better, and that the more skilled a team gets, the shorter iteration they can enjoy. One week...
... Not particular . I guess if there are supporting materials for a book I tend to download/view them out of habit incase there is something than provides an...
Jim Brosseau is a quality and testing consultant from Vancouver, BC. A month ago he gave a presentation to VanQ entitled Random Acts of Quality. When...
