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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Collective Quality Ownership
Elisabeth Hendrickson pointed out to me that she recently renamed her seventh practice of Agile testing to Collective Test Ownership. The name is the compartment of the XP practice Collective Code Ownership. Behind it is the value that everyone should … Continue reading
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Key practices for Software Test Managers
Lately I was asked by my supervisor about a list of key practices for a software testing responsible person in our projects. I decided to expose this list for discussion. Please also keep in mind that I know that this … Continue reading
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“The biggest defect is tolerating defects.”
The headline is a quotation of Mary Poppendieck from her keynote at the Agile Testing Days conference in 2009 in Berlin. Today while reading through Jerry Weinberg’s Quality Software Management Vol. 1 I understood why.
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Size/Complexity dynamic and Agile adoption failures
With the help of Jerry Weinbergs description of the size/complexity dynamic in Quality Software Management Vol. 1 – Systems Thinking, I think I found an abstraction to Cockburns reasoning on the failure of Agile adoption.
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Agile Testing Days Berlin VI – Good at looking around
Here is a random collection of things I noticed on the Agile Testing Days which I left out of the previous entries on it. Mostly these refer to people being good at looking around, like Alistair Cockburn pointed it out.
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Agile Testing Days Berlin V – The final day
On the final day of the Agile Testing Days my presentation was due. Since it was my first conference presentation ever, I was very stagefright about the course. Though, here is my write-up on the other presentations I visited.
Agile Testing Days Berlin IV – Testify and the Oktoberfest
Tuesday after the lunch at the Agile Testing Days there were two Keynotes and in the evening an Oktoberfest celebration. Following is my write-up of the notes I took in that period.
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From the Definition of Done to “Are we done, yet?”
In the dialog about my recent blog entry about the Definition of Done, I was able to refine my mental model about “Done”. Here is a write-up of it.
Agile Testing Days Berlin III – First presentations
On the Agile Testing Days on Tuesday the first presentations settled off. In the meantime pictures from the conference have been put up. Here are portions of my notes from Tuesday.
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Agile Testing Days Berlin II – Monday evening dinner conversations
On Monday evening of the Agile Testing Days all speakers were invited to go to lunch from the organizators. I had the dear honor to sit next to Tom Gilb with Mary & Tom Poppendieck directly facing. Though I was … Continue reading
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