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Burning Test Questions at Google
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (James Whittaker) on Wed, 10/06/2009 - 00:28.By James Whittaker
One of the best parts about change is meeting new people and I've met a lot of Googlers in Mountain View and Kirkland over the past two weeks. There are many burning questions we've discussed but one has surfaced so much that it has to take top billing: manual vs. automated testing.
Google, I've learned, has come full circle on this issue. When the company was new and Search was king most testing was manual and like a lot of startups there was little focus on actual QA. In recent years the pendulum has swung to automation with developers writing a lot of unit tests and testers creating automation frameworks prolifically.
The seven pillars of an Agile team: Introduction
Submitted by Brian Marick on Wed, 10/06/2009 - 21:41.A couple of months ago, Chet Hendrickson, Ron Jeffries, Bob Martin, James Shore, and I met to talk about what abilities are important to an Agile team. We cardstormed ideas, which fell into seven categories:Product senseCollaborationFocus on Business ValueSupportive CultureConfidenceTechnical ExcellenceSelf-Improvement(I’ve added words to a few of the names.)Three times now, I’ve facil