... The clincher here, of course, is the 'if it triggers' clause. If it never triggers before leaving the dev shop, and then starts triggering at customer ...
Hello, Chris. On Wednesday, October 1, 2008, at 6:50:37 AM, you ... Given that it is something we don't have time to explore deeply, what /is/ your preferred...
Hello, Chris. On Wednesday, October 1, 2008, at 8:44:56 AM, you ... Easy answer. Suppose there isn't time to test it. Then what do you prefer? Ron Jeffries ...
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Ron Jeffries ... If there's no time to test, then my experience tells me that some customer is going to find my defects for me...
Hello, Chris. On Wednesday, October 1, 2008, at 12:24:46 PM, you ... Yes. It would surprise me, though, if you can end every shipping cycle with no important...
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Ron Jeffries ... Well, no *major* questions. Maybe I wasn't clear in an earlier post, but I personally think the marking...
...something along the lines of, "reuse should be a nice side effect, not a goal, of good design". I thought I saw it on this list a long time ago, but I've...
... Oh, I agree, it would be best to test. But with a rapid release cycle do you get to test every possibility you ever thought of? At least with the assert in...
... Well, you've done it now. You're on John Scalzi's Canonical Bacon Page <http://scalzi.com/whatever/?page_id=1696> . :) [Non-text portions of this message...
I'm co-teaching an internal one-day "Intro to Agile" class with a focus on XP. Participants will be software engineers. The last time the only exercise we ran...
I may be missing the point of this exercise, but wouldn't we want to present this to our customer(s) and have them schedule a story/task to handle the...
Dmitry, In skimming these responses I didn't see what I'd suggest, but sorry if this is repetitive: I've been really happy by going to my local Agile user's...
Hi! I want to recruit you to my lending team, OWASP, on Kiva, a non-profit website that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income...
Hello, James. On Thursday, October 2, 2008, at 7:18:49 AM, you ... You've been placed on moderation for a perhaps well-intended spam violation. Ron Jeffries ...
... I have more quotes out there that others attributed to someone else. Someone attributed "if you run out of room on your story cards, use smaller cards" to ...
Thanks! What list was that from - I couldn't find it in the archives of the XP list. Dave Rooney Mayford Technologies "Helping you become AGILE... to SURVIVE...
As a general reflection about our personal steps on software development, on the current agile paths, and on the fact that the essence of many good ideas...
... What are you trying to train? I have developed a number of these trainings and my first suggestion is to ask yourself "What is the purpose of this...
Hi Marco, —your critical feedback will be much appreciated. I think the scientific methods fits software development better in the long term than in the...
... Yes totally. Test isolation is among the many XP factors that help your code decouple. For any of your object's states, you should be able to rapidly write...
Phlip, +1 on test isolation. The next big feature we're working on adding to JUnit is a test runner that dynamically reorders tests to provide most of the ...
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