testing early for the first time
Mike Kelly tells what happened in his group when they introduced testing earlier during the normal development cycle
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bug bounties
May 19, 2006
Some major companies have begun rewarding their testers with cash for finding serious defects prior to release; it seems to me that this approach is seriously flawed
use tests as a failsafe
January 25, 2006
What would life be like if our tools prevented check-ins while there are any failing tests?
open quality
September 8, 2005
Agitar are now publishing a "dashboard" showing their internal code quality metrics
a second pair of eyes
August 11, 2005
I've just been working with a team which has a pairing policy: every item of code must have been seen by two pairs of eyes before it can be checked in. It doesn't work
better tester, worse code
July 26, 2005
In which the skills of the tester are inversely proportional to the diligence of the developers
what is “quality”?
February 3, 2005
"Software quality" is no longer a useful term. Instead we should be making testable statements of the value we are delivering to each of a system's stakeholders
fix everything except scope
December 9, 2004
If things don't go according to plan on an agile project, don't be tempted to extend the iteration or skimp on testing. Vary only the scope of the release
discontinuous integration
October 8, 2004
Some projects here require 4 months to integrate and test!
I'm Kevin Rutherford, from Macclesfield in the UK. I'm an independent agile software coach and mentor, specialising in test-driven development, agile, lean and the theory of constraints.
May 27, 2006
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