Posts Tagged old favourites
Old Favourite: QA / Testing – what’s the difference?
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, Project Management, Software Development, Software Testing on November 19, 2010
Software is about the only industry one of the few industries that lumps testing and QA under one banner. It’s one of those things where common misuse of a term results in the community changing it’s meaning… this happens in mainstream language all the time. Testing something is actually more analogous to quality control or, [...]
Old Favourite: Expected Exceptions
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, Software Development, Software Testing on July 24, 2010
This first appeared on my old blog in November 2008. I’ve decided that I don’t like typical patterns for testing exceptions. I decided this a while ago as far as “Expected Exception” attributes/annotations are concerned and stuck with the traditional try/catch approach (I’ll explain why in a minute). Now, I’ve decided I don’t like the [...]
Boredom: a Testing Smell?
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, Software Testing on July 9, 2010
This first appeared on my old blog in June 2005. Somebody I know who was doing some (unscripted) testing spoke of being bored the other day… I have always found boredom to be a sign that something is wrong. I believe, as has been said by Kaner et al, that testing is a brain-engaged activity. [...]
From Scrum to Kanban – good and bad reasons to switch…
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, Project Management on July 8, 2010
This originally appeared on my old blog in February 2009. There are, IMHO, some good reasons and some bad reasons to consider switching from Scrum to Kanban… or for considering Kanban over Scrum as a starting point for ‘going Agile’ (so to speak)… ‘Good’ reasons for considering Kanban are… Wanting/needing more visibility of specific development [...]
MARTA – Risk Management… beyond mitigation
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Business, Project Management on July 8, 2010
Originally posted on my old blog in November 2009: In a previous rant about the misuse of the term mitigate in the context of risk management I listed the following strategies (I call them MARTA) for managing a given risk: Mitigate – Reduce the severity of its impact Avoid – Don’t do the thing that [...]
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Antony Marcano is a consultant in software craftsmanship, effective software processes, software quality and software testing. He has over fifteen years experience with... (read more)
