Methods & Tools Fall 2009 issue has just been published with the following articles: * Mature Scrum at Systematic: mixing CMMI and Scrum in the same company * Implementing Automated Software Testing: metrics that help manage the transition to software testing automation * The Spring Framework: an introduction to this …
“Agile is all about teams working together to produce great software. As an Agile coach, you can help your team go from first steps to running with Agile to unleashing their full Agile potential.” “The art of Agile coaching is understanding the situation, the values underlying Agile software development, and …
Excel Spreadsheet: Value Decision Table for Measuring Business Value The Only Truly Failed Project Software Developers Should Never Have Dress Codes Introduction to DDD for the implementation oriented Tech Support Cheat Sheet The Grinder a load testing framework Tackle an open-source scrum tracking tool Article: Kanban vs Scrum Article: Grails and Continuous …
Following my thinking about the fact that functional testing was the dividing barrier between specialized developer and tester roles, I found in the book “Agile Testing” by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory an excellent list of fears that QA teams could express against agile adoption: “Testers cling to the concept …
A recent Methods & Tools survey tried to evaluate the usage of tools to automate execution of functional software tests. A similar poll was conducted in 2005 and it was interesting to compare the results.
There was a time when software developers worked with consultants that will do things for their company or teach some technical knowledge. Agile approaches have brought forward another type of people: coaches. According to Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley, a coach doesn’t tell you what to do, rather she shows …
