The next Seattle XP Users Group meeting will be on Thursday, July 8, 2004 at our usual SBI location with Diana Larsen speaking on "Project Retrospectives." In...
Any recommendations on good ways to do this? Note that I am doing some TDD, but have not yet tackled automated acceptance testing, so try to keep answers...
Hi Steve, Customers, who generally perform acceptance tests, have a different set of competencies than developers. Therefore, acceptance tests are typically...
Something like FIT was what I was thinking, but would FIT be a "fit" platform for testing VB/VBA code? Would it not be simpler (and therefore more likely to...
Does anybody use Model Based Testing techniques in their unit tests?? (MBT technique is to model your SUT in a state machine, and test each transition). I have...
... The problem with models is that they become complex and that makes it hard to know exactly what went wrong when you do get an error. The approach is better...
Ward Cunningham
ward@...
Jul 8, 2004 3:11 pm
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To all XP/Agile software development fans: The Organizing Committee of XPAU 2004 would like to hear about your opinions/experiences regarding the Question of...
Hi All, Between XP2004 and other travelling I was doing, this has been a long time coming... but here it is! We hope to have the release candiate and final out...
Hi All, Between XP2004 and other travelling I was doing, this has been a long time coming... but here it is! We hope to have the release candiate and final out...
Hey folks... I was looking for the date of the next XPDX meeting (especially the one for July) and wandered accross the following on the XPDX Wiki: "Our...
... As far as I know (and I book the room), we are still meeting on the 2nd Tuesday. But I was out of town on the 2nd Tuesday in July, and don't know if there...
... There will be no XPDX meeting tonight. We have no programme, there has been no discussion of one, and I won't be here to open the door. Go for a bike...
Hi All, This third beta fixes a few bugs and is able to run under .NET 2.0 Beta 1. You can download it at http://nunit.sourceforge.net. Charlie Poole ...
Hi all, I'm writing to make a networking request. My son has just moved back to Portland from a 3-year sojourn in Honolulu. In his last position, he was the...
Hello, Below you will find the URL for an article I co-wrote for the August issue of Software Development magazine. Based on our previous conversations, I...
The second Tuesday of the month is fast approaching! Are we going to hold an XPDX meeting? I will be on vacation, so I will not be available to host our usual...
Diana, excellent article. I've forwarded it to several agile project managers I know. Thanks for posting! Jim ... -- Jim Shore Titanium I.T. LLC - Making IT...
Hi All, The final release of NUnit 2.2 is available at http://nunit.sourceforge.net now and will be on our web site (http://www.nunit.org) in the next day or...
I suspect a number of those who come to XPDX meetings have some good ideas up their sleeves about XP, Agile methods, and other software quality-related topics....
Interesting interview on 8/27 with Dan Gillmor, Knight-Ridder tech columnist and author of "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People" ...
... That doesn't make it any less cool, Ward! :-) Congratulations on the recognition. Diana Diana Larsen www.futureworksconsulting.com 503-288-3550 Upcoming...
The book "Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools" published by Wiley is due for release in September. ...
I had heard that Microsoft is handing out a copy of this book to everyone attending OOPSLA this year. This is the long-awaited MDA book from Microsoft thought...
What is the xp party line on presenting velocity measurements outside the xp team? If the iteration demo / acceptance / story test shows the current state of...
Jeff Olfert
jeff.olfert@...
Sep 9, 2004 8:37 pm
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The typical XP velocity and load factor has potentially a lot of unspecified information leading to those specific numbers. The numbers serve the scheduling...