Testing

What do the testers do at the start of a sprint when there’s nothing to test? That problem is …

Early in my career as a programmer, I remember coming across the phrase, “You can’t test quality …

New books on scaling, developer testing and developing a strategy for your reading list.  

In the following guest post, Lisa Crispin argues the benefits of scheduling anything that's important.

Yes, I really did refer to guitarist Alvin Lee in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class last week. …

I recently helped to facilitate a two-day planning session for an important initiative at Adobe …

Doing performance testing creates some amount of overhead on the team (the tax). This overhead or …

Laurie Williams, a professor at North Carolina State University, recently conducted a survey to …

With a little experience, most teams are able to see how to overlap some types of work and create …

Scrum teams learn to work by doing a little of everything all the time.

The first priority of a team with technical debt is to stop the bleeding, stop things from getting worse.

Even before the ascendancy of agile methodologies like Scrum, we knew we should automate our tests. …

This is an excellent book that deserves to be read by every tester on an agile project--and since …

Discover whether agile teams should work on one product backlog item at a time or if it's OK for …

In seeking to improve how we develop software, we continually inspect and adapt. While thinking …

This article addresses the issue of how much detail should be included in product backlog items and …

There are many ways to transition to an agile process. Choosing the approach that is most likely to …

The release sprint is not a dumping ground for sloppy work.

The scrum of scrums meeting is an important technique in scaling Scrum to large project teams. …

I’ve long considered Mary and Tom Poppendieck to be among the primary theoreticians in the agile …

Numbers may not lie, but measurements can sure mislead you. This article explores two myths about …

Many teams try to divide and conquer when it comes to sprint planning, often with disjointed and …

Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse is a very good book. Right in the preface …

A key consideration in adopting an iterative process is selecting how long your iterations will be. …

Are you shirking your decision-making responsibility? It happens more often than you think, and …

Projects fail for a plethora of reasons; one article could not hope to address all of them. …

This is a wonderful book. I first saw Fit during its infancy and I didn’t “get it.” This book will …

Users are often kept at arm's length. We ask them for their input on the design, but then we, as …

My initial uses of JUnit are probably not unique. I found it a wonderful tool and a great way to …

The transition from a plan-driven to an agile process affects not only the development team …

Over the years we've come up with many useful database development techniques. This article …

Ken Schwaber and I co-wrote this article to help counter the misperception that agile projects do …

This article describes how a project was successfully downsized from 100 to 12 developers. To make …

This book is fantastic. I’m only a tester to the extent that everyone doing XP is a tester but I …

This article describes some very useful metrics that are probably worth collecting on any project.