This is the presentation I gave today at the “QA and Development in Agile” conference (It’s a bit more detailed than what the people in the room saw). This wasn’t a technical presentation, just an overview to the newly initiated to unit testing – third of the room wrote unit tests, the rest didn’t. And
It’s spring time for agile. The birds are singing and main stream companies are adopting scrum. Everyone knows that agile brings us out of the unsuccessful projects of past to a shining successful future. Unless, you go back to the report that started it all – the CHAOS report. The CHAOS report is used universally
A funny thing happened to me last week. As I was driving to work, I was listening to another brilliant podcast from Manager-Tools on Assumptive Goal Settings. The curious name (for me, at least) is actually something we’ve done before. AGS is about reaching a goal, when you don’t have a clue how to get
As part of my ADC experience, I enjoyed being part of Gojko Adzic’s session: The Specification Game. The room was divided to groups of four – there were 6 teams. Each group included a product owner, developers and testers. Gojko and his team were the customers. They rolled out a product they needed: a Black
One of the sessions at ADC2011 that I understood (even though it was in German), was Bjorn Rochel’s talk on test organization. Bjorn told a story of the evolution of his experience writing tests, and how to organize them. For example, he started out with a test class, called CalculatorTests, and every method name ended
ADC2011 is over, and I had a mighty fun time. Like I open my talks, I’d like to speak first on my favorite subject: me. I had two talks, one on unit testing SharePoint applications, and the other about tools for identifying issues in multithreaded apps (slides below). I can tell you that all those
It was a great night of new matrix films, dynamic languages, general geekery and definitely good eats. Uncle Bob Martin, Brett Shuchert, and a bunch of Israeli craftsmen (I’m still on probation due to my latest posts) sat, ate, drank and had a fine night. Guys, thanks for a great evening, and I hope
In my last post, I warned against the dangers of the craftsmanship movement to itself. The main premise behind this warning is that business and developers don’t speak the same language. And since business has the upper hand, role power, money – business always wins. Martin Fowler’s post, Craftsmanship and the Crevasse, looks at the
In the last few weeks, we were hit by the flu. Many (including myself) have fallen before the mighty bug. Even after coming back from their sick bed, people have gone off for a second or even a third round. And lost. And the few that remained on their feet, need to carry on with
Apparently, I’ve become addicted to my task list. My latest “things that work” to juggle tasks works great. Except when it doesn’t. When’s that? Weekends. I took precautions to have the ability to write down tasks when I’m away from my computer. But, I still manage to think about things to do when I’m not