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Clients, Contexts and Schools
Submitted by Paul Gerrard's Blog on Mon, 25/02/2008 - 12:01.There's been a lively discussion on axioms of testing and the subject of schools came up in that conversation. I'm not a member of any particular school and if people like to be part of one - good for them. I think discussion of schools is a distraction and doesn't help the axioms debate at all. I do suggest that axioms are context- and school- independent - so with respect to schools of testing, I had better explain my position here.
Is testing as different as economic systems?
Submitted by Ainars Galvans on Mon, 25/02/2008 - 15:27. general software testing | metaphorsI have lived in two out of 5 basic types of economic systems: planned (Soviet Union) and market (Latvia now) economy. I could draw certain similarity with notion of testing schools. … well at least to a degree of my interpretation of the notion. Based on my (perhaps limited) experience – I prefer to think about the reasons for implications described – in terms of decision making…
Google Trends Reveals Falling Interest in XP
Submitted by jason@parlezuml.com (Jason Gorman) on Mon, 25/02/2008 - 15:39.According to this graph genereted by Google Trends, searches for "extreme programming" have been on the wane in the last four years.
What does this mean, I wonder?
Even more interesting is the trend for "ruby on rails". While it seems as though the hype is still growing, the actual number of people searching for information has passed a peak and seems to be dropping.
What does this mean, I wonder?
Even more interesting is the trend for "ruby on rails". While it seems as though the hype is still growing, the actual number of people searching for information has passed a peak and seems to be dropping.
IEEE Article
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Patrick Copeland) on Mon, 25/02/2008 - 18:36.Article covering some of Google's Test culture. In the article, there's some focus on the ideas of "incremental testing" and how practices are changing in the software as a service world. Even with all of our drive to find better approaches, one thing to note is that we still believe in the fundamentals of testing.
Geolocation Mashup To Visualize My Blog Visitors
Submitted by Corey Goldberg on Mon, 25/02/2008 - 18:36.I just did a Geolocation mashup to visualize where my blog readers are coming from on a particular day. Below is a visualization of my US/Canada visitors from February 14, 2008.
All of the data is based off of IP addresses from my referrer logs.
To see how to do this, check out: http://www.goldb.org/geo_maps
MIke's Michelangelo's David
Submitted by jamie on Mon, 25/02/2008 - 19:52.Dobson Coaching and Consulting's own version of Michelangelo's David. Spot the difference. Here we see my partner in crime modeling some of our high fashion.
Expedited Stories
Submitted by Wayne Allen on Tue, 26/02/2008 - 01:04.I mentioned in my No More Iterations post that we didn't really know how support requests were going to affect the overall system. As is often the case I didn't have to wait long to find out.
Within days of moving to the limited WIP approach we got a raft of support requests, several of which turned into "must fix now" types of issues. Since we had just switched, we absolutely didn't have a slot on the board (in fact we had 13 stories for a 6 slot WIP).
Why my life is hopeless
Submitted by Brian Marick on Tue, 26/02/2008 - 01:29.A large number of the submissions to the Agile2008 Examples stage do not use examples to clarify or explain. As a result, they are too vague to evaluate.And people wonder why I despair.