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Principles of Agile Testing
A few weeks ago my company had an internal conference called “The Fiserv Leaders Conference on Testing” and I, along with some others, was tapped to do a talk on Agile and testing. We decided to write...
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Failing Fast
My company has a Director of Innovation. Joe is, predictably, a pretty inspiring guy and often sends out emails with interesting thoughts and ideas to spur innovation. Recently he sent out a message...
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The Embedded Tester
I hear it a lot at conferences, work meetings, interviews, discussions with managers, etc., the idea of “embedded testers.” The utterances are along the lines of, “Our testers are embedded on...
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Contract and Integration Service Testing in a Componentized Enterprise Model
(Presented at Agile Atlanta on May 1st, 2012 – Prezi) I’ve been working a lot over the past six months on creating an automation framework for our service development teams. In our relatively large...
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Agile Allure
Through the wonderful Agile Atlanta, I got to visit another company’s location this week – Allure Global. They make dynamic signage for movie theaters – concessions and ticketing, etc. They are an...
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Roles and Responsibilities
Me – “The team is responsible for Quality!” Dev Mgr – “Yeah, I hear that, but what will help is to go one level deeper – let’s realistically identify what can and should be done by “developer” and...
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Agile at Daxko
I had the opportunity to visit Daxko through Agile Atlanta and their Agile Tours. I had already heard of the company and their foray into agile through Claire Moss who is, by the way, an excellent...
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Levels of Feedback in the Agile Enterprise
Recently I gave a lightning talk at Agile Atlanta on this subject. Here’s the Prezi. Feel free to click through that as you read along to this post! The idea is that there are several types of feedback...
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Failing Fast
My company has a Director of Innovation. Joe is, predictably, a pretty inspiring guy and often sends out emails with interesting thoughts and ideas to spur innovation. Recently he sent out a message...
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The Embedded Tester
I hear it a lot at conferences, work meetings, interviews, discussions with managers, etc., the idea of “embedded testers.” The utterances are along the lines of, “Our testers are embedded on...
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Contract and Integration Service Testing in a Componentized Enterprise Model
(Presented at Agile Atlanta on May 1st, 2012 – Prezi) I’ve been working a lot over the past six months on creating an automation framework for our service development teams. In our relatively large...
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Agile Allure
Through the wonderful Agile Atlanta, I got to visit another company’s location this week – Allure Global. They make dynamic signage for movie theaters – concessions and ticketing, etc. They are an...
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Dammit!
The following is a transcript from an actual IM conversation in the recent past… Eric Jacobson: I have a question for your blog. EJ: I just got my ass kicked trying to convince a project team to stop...
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The BEST Laid Plans
Here’s a fresh question from the ManageToTest Mailbag! Hey Mr. ManageToTest, do you happen to have any standards or guides around Quality Control Test Plans? We have a few different QC groups doing...
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Roles and Responsibilities
Me – “The team is responsible for Quality!” Dev Mgr – “Yeah, I hear that, but what will help is to go one level deeper – let’s realistically identify what can and should be done by “developer” and...
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Day 1 – STARWest – Rapid Software Testing Edition
Michael Bolton, along with James Bach created the Rapid Software Testing class from which this session was greatly condensed. I’ve never taken the course, but I’ve read a lot of Michael’s writings and...
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