A series of 30 second interviews from STARWEST 2008, discussing the impact that Agile Software Development has on testing and the testing process.
Participants include:
- Fiona Charles – President, Quality Intelligence Inc
- Adrian O’Leary – Director, Center of Excellence, Cognizant
- James Bach – Software Testing Naturalist
- Scott Barber – Cheif Technologist, PerfTestPlus
- Derk-Jan de Grood – Testing Expert, Collis
- Matthew Winford – Senior Product Manager Compuware
- Brian Pinkus – CEO & Founder, Outsource Testing
- Brad Johnson – Senior Director, Product Marketing, Borland
- David Gorena – Software Design Engineer, Microsoft
- Jane Fraser – QA Director, Electronic Arts
- Frank Cohen - Push to Test
- Brian Anderson – Director Product Management, Worksoft
- Andreas Grabner – Senior Performance Architect, Dyna Trace
What are your thoughts on the matter?
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Personally I feel agile has had a positive impact on testing, integrating it far more than any other process. Traditional methods separate testing from development, I believe testing is PART OF development (and no, not just unit testing). “Testing” for me just forms another part of the “done” definition of a story, in other words, just a set of additional tasks to be done as the story reaches functional completion points.
“Test early test often” is a motto I think people should live by…