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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Software Craftsmanship conference wrap-up
Here is the wrap-up I wrote yesterday evening on the Software Craftsmanship conference in London while waiting for my plane to get me back home. I would like to thank Jason Gorman for organizing this conference. It was overwhelming and … Continue reading
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Testing focus of Software Craftsmanship – Principles I
While the values might just seem to be a list of higher level goals with no direct outcome on the particular project, there is a lower level of definition in Agile methodologies: Principles. From Elisabeth Hendrickson and Lisa Crispin & … Continue reading
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Testing symbiosis
Elisabeth Hendrickson raised a point on her blog on test automation. She raises a very good point on the time-value of information. She states that just as money today is more worth than money tomorrow, information known today is more … Continue reading
Software Craftsmanship Manifesto
Some thoughts on a manifesto based on the Agile Manifesto seems to be fostering. Doug Bradbury started a discussion on The New Left Side on the Software Craftsmanship Group. The list is currently in a sort of draft status, but … Continue reading
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Black-Belt Testing
Matt Heusser gave me a black belt for my reply to his black-belt testing challenge. We exchanged some thoughts via e-mail. If you would like to get to know, what to do in order to get one, too, you should … Continue reading
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Testing focus of Software Craftsmanship – Values
Some weeks ago I was first made aware of Software Craftsmanship. By the same time I had run over Bob Martin’s fifth Agile value and Alistair Cockburn’s New Software Engineering. Just today I strived over a topic opened from Joshua … Continue reading
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Testing Libraries vs. Frameworks
Lisa Crispin reported last week on the difference between Test Libraries and Frameworks. When reading her blog entry I felt the urge to comment to it on the approach we used at work for our two-step based testing functions. In … Continue reading
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