... Then, Michael, you are wrong. You seem cemented in your stance, and the vigor with which you defend this point makes it no more correct than when you first...
... hmm. I think the original statement was "FIT is bad for regression testing", and the author clearly meant GUI regression testing. Whenever I hear "You...
... and the ... the ... when ... There is a possibility that the dialogue here isn't conducive to furthering anyones understanding. When the statement "Fit is...
Can we get some content here rather than doing the "I'm right, no, I'm right" thing? FIT has its strengths and weaknesses, like every other tool out there, but...
Hi Michael, I disagree with James that Fit is bad for automation. (He's limited his use and advocacy to part of the original core Fit, by the way.) Sure ...
... I presume that by "regression testing" you mean end-to-end testing of the entire application, using some tool (like Selenium) to drive a test instance of...
... And with all respect to Jim, that piece is an opinion about one way to use FIT. An opinion formed from lots of experience, but not intended to preclude FIT...
... Interesting, William. Over the years my perception is that there is not a clear consensus about what part an agile team plays in this type of change. I've...
hi all, I have friend running his own consulting company who is thinking about giving xp a try since they are almost doing it naturally. they code in pairs,...
... [snip] ... Hmmm, I wonder if there's a link between not liking retrospectives (and, seemingly, misinterpreting what they are) and this tendency not to...
... I would go one step further than Steven and suggest that this technical breakdown not only doesn't help, but actually holds you from breaking it down by...
Alistair Cockburn has a nice overview over different contract models in an Agile context: http://alistair.cockburn.us/index.php/Agile_contracts Cheers, Ilja...
I think delivering software in an agile manner enables the business to get feedback faster and make more relevant decisions. That is, agile development doesn't...
... While agile software development does not steer the business, it provides more than just greater visibility. It also enables the business to react more...
you'd get a better response if you told us something about yourself, who you're doing your research with, and what it's about. You might also use your...
... getting ... work ... corners ... our ... with ... (and, ... learn ... Nope, I don't think so. And as I went on to mention, I prefer the idea of a diary. ...
... I've used the story runner from JBehave, and the new plain text story runner from RSpec. I've also extracted out given / when / then methods in acceptance...
From the few brief flirtations I've had with them, and from acquaintances who work in this field I've always thought that VC's (particularly for start ups) are...
<snip> ... Reasonably complex in my previous incarnation. One internal product management system and a publicly facing corporate webshop and customer...
... with ... past ... retrospectives ... to ... think, ... it, ... I didn't say one shouldn't go back and look at it. What I said earlier in the thread is that...
... That is the most valuable for *marketing* and *sales*. If you look at what Paul Graham's Y-Combinator-Funded companies are doing, and how they do it, it...
... Deciding what to record at the time also distorts our view of it. Keeping paper notes is not entirely unlike keeping in-memory notes. If you read Norm's...
... not ... at ... decisions ... notes. If ... both ... This ... well, as always on this list I'm wary of throwing up /any/ definition as there's sure to be a...
... I think you are confusing "stop the line" for product defects with "kaizen improvements" for process improvement. Kaizen IS a formalized process (although...
... prefer ... to ... formalized I do understand the difference and I don't think I am confusing them at all. If someone feels there's an opportunity for...
... People over process simply means that people control the processes not the other way around. Process isn't bad... process that is immutable is bad. ... ...