My latest column cautioning testers not to think they are the center of the development team's universe http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid92_gci1325828,00.html.

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Scott Barber

President & Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc.

Executive Director, Association for Software Testing

Co-Author, Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications

 

"If you can see it in your mind...

     you will find it in your life."

At the AA Functional Test Tools workshop, we had a little session devoted to this question: Even where “ordinary” unit test-driven design (UTTD) works well, acceptance-test driven design (ATDD) is having more trouble getting traction. Why not?My notes:Programmers miss the fun / aha! moments / benefits that they get from UTDD. Especially, there is a difference [...]

One result of the technical debt workshop was that the attendees are more likely to talk about the code as an asset to preserve, improve, or destroy than as evidence of debt. See Mike Feathers on code as an asset or Chris McMahon on a project as an investment. Here’s my twist:Consider a vegetable garden [...]

Bret Pettichord wrote a blog post on how Agile is All About Feedback.As usual, Bret’s writing is keenly insightful, stripping the issue down to its essence. And I totally agree with all his points, especially where he says: “If you don’t have meaningful feedback then you’re not agile. You’re just in a new form [...]