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eviware and PushToTest Announce Partnership
Submitted by Opensourcetesting.org - latest news on Tue, 05/02/2008 - 14:08.Eviware, the soapUI company, and PushToTest announced a new partnership to build advanced integration between soapUI Pro and PushToTest and to sell and support test automation solutions in the USA and Canadian marketplaces. The partnership delivers solutions to enterprises that are challenged to surface performance and scalability issues with load and performance test automation, regression test automation, and business service monitoring solutions.
Have You Caught The Scrum-Pox Yet?
Submitted by jason@parlezuml.com (Jason Gorman) on Tue, 05/02/2008 - 16:56.Mike Vizdos follows up my blog post that was mysteriously removed from the site in the dead of night by the political correctness pixies (i.e, me).
I had received a couple of heartfelt pleas from fans of Scrum who were obviously really rather nonplussed, so I did the decent thing and chickened out. I'm proud to say that, like all good Englishmen, I completely lack the courage of my convictions. Mike has very kindly offered to repost the cartoon on his own site and take the heat for me.
I had received a couple of heartfelt pleas from fans of Scrum who were obviously really rather nonplussed, so I did the decent thing and chickened out. I'm proud to say that, like all good Englishmen, I completely lack the courage of my convictions. Mike has very kindly offered to repost the cartoon on his own site and take the heat for me.
Putting Words In My Mouth - I Never Said That Scrum Doesn't Work
Submitted by jason@parlezuml.com (Jason Gorman) on Tue, 05/02/2008 - 17:37.An email plonked into my fuzzbox this very afternoon pointing me towards this outburst against my assertion that Scrum spreads like a virus (as do many ideas - good and bad).
The blogger in question writes:
In Jason's post, he exposes his believe that Scrum is nothing more than Snake Oil sold by consultants
The blogger in question writes:
In Jason's post, he exposes his believe that Scrum is nothing more than Snake Oil sold by consultants
Book deferred; book started
Submitted by Brian Marick on Tue, 05/02/2008 - 19:28.I’ve deferred work on Ruby Scripting for Leopard in favor of a new venture: a book on RubyCocoa. I had two reasons for doing that:I’m unhappy with how difficult scripting is, not because of the scripting frameworks themselves, but because the apps’ interfaces are badly documented and buggy. A book documenting something that’s hard will [...]
Agile PM Tools (Hosted)
Submitted by iclemartin on Tue, 05/02/2008 - 19:59.(Updated 2/6/08 to include Wrike, also see the list of self hosted tools)
I've been researching agile PM tools to decide if we want to continue using our existing tool, switch to another or go 100% manual.
Comment on Naked Agilist podcast
Submitted by Brian Marick on Tue, 05/02/2008 - 20:02.Scott Finney has an interesting comment on my segment of the Naked Agilist podcast:I listened to the Naked Agilists latest podcast the other day.Brian Marick’s pitch in particular sparked my interest. He compares agile adoption against Geoffrey Moore’s technology adoption curve and observes a discrepancy; namely the seeming dearth of pragmatists. As [...]
If you are in Austin tonight....
Submitted by jdarling on Tue, 05/02/2008 - 21:41.Come out and see Bret, myself and some other local test experts as we discuss testing in Agile environments from 6-8:30pm this evening. http://agileaustin.org/
Python - Convert Secs Into Human Readable Time String (HH:MM:SS)
Submitted by Corey Goldberg on Wed, 06/02/2008 - 03:27.Convert a number of seconds into a human readable time string HH:MM:SS
7046 seconds is: 1 hour 57 mins 26 secs, or 01:57:26
The Function:
def humanize_time(secs):
mins, secs = divmod(secs, 60)
hours, mins = divmod(mins, 60)
return '%02d:%02d:%02d' % (hours, mins, secs)
The Output:
print humanize_time(7046)