Archive for the ‘Testing’ Category

TDD Anti-Patterns

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

A catalog of common issues individuals and teams run into while doing TDD on their projects is well under way in this blog entry.

Tester-Developer Ratios on Agile Teams

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Lisa Crispin provides a couple of good stories about her experience on teams and the ratio of testers to developers in this blog entry.

What are the Qualities of a Good Test?

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Mark Levison captures some good references from thought leaders in the Agile community on what constitutes a good test in this blog entry.

Practicing Agility in Application Architecture

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

The Microsoft Patterns & Practices group had put together a suggested process for implementing architecture while keeping an Agile method of software development in this article.

An Alternative to Business-facing TDD

Friday, December 19th, 2008

The use of exploratory testing along with unit-level test-driven development is asserted as potentially more valuable than automated acceptance testing in this article from Brian Marick.

How Well Does Agile Scale?

Monday, December 15th, 2008

This email sent to a discussion forum discusses the experiences of a company with 27 development teams using Agile methods.

Acceptance Test-Driven Development: An Overview

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Test execution beyond the traditional use of developer unit tests in the Agile community has been debated. Elisabeth Hendrickson has a great article shared on her blog here.

Agile Development Practices 2008: Brian Marick’s “Seven Years Later: What the Agile Manifesto Left Out”

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Here is the video of Brian Marick’s keynote talk at Agile Development Practices 2008.

IDE Feature Request: The YAGNI Development Assistant

Monday, December 8th, 2008

This article contains a funny feature request from Darren Smith for a YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It) development assistant.

Beware the Hero

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Elisabeth Hendrickson describes a classroom situation that shows pitfalls of the “hero” attempting to do too much in this article.