Do We Need Unit Testing?

methodsandtools.com — A recent poll examined how organizations perform unit testing. Despite the fact that the number of TDD adopters has grown nicely since the previous similar survey, unit testing is still widely conducted in a informal manner, when it is not simply ignored by developers. read more...

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10 Questions to Choose Candidates for Your Large Agile Company

methodsandtools.com — This set of questions was created to help corporate managers select Agile-experienced consultants and candidate employees for project work. read more...

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Creating an Agile Environment

methodsandtools.com — Migrating to Agile is more than changing your process. It also requires a change in culture. For most companies changing culture is the most difficult part. I believe this is true for several reasons. These issues should be addressed in two ways. First, you want to address the culture needs of each group head on. We will lay out a game plan for obtaining support from line management, the team, the individual and executive management. read more...

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Exploratory Testing: Finding the Music of Software Investigation

methodsandtools.com — As a software testing consultant and musician, I meet a lot of skilled testers who do amazing work. Through experience and a lot of trial and error, they have developed skills they can’t easily explain. Unfortunately, with software testing, there aren’t as many obvious avenues for skill development as there are for musicians. Many software testers don’t realize that there are learnable exploratory testing skills they can develop to help them become even more valuable to software development teams. read more...

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Software Factories for Mass Customizing Solutions

methodsandtools.com — Software Factories are a new paradigm that promotes the formation of supply chains to deliver software solutions. This article of Jack Greenfield, software architect for Microsoft, explains how to achieve this objective. read more...

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Test-Driven Development for Embedded Software

methodsandtools.com — Despite a prevalent industry perception to the contrary, the agile practices of Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration can be successfully applied to embedded software. We present here a holistic set of practices, platform independent tools, and a new design pattern (Model Conductor Hardware - MCH) that together produce: good design from tests programmed first, logic decoupled from hardware, and systems testable under automation. Ultimately, this approach yields an order of magnitude or more reduction in software flaws, predictable progress, and measurable velocity for data-driven project management. We use the approach discussed herein for real-world production systems and have included a full C-based sample project to illustrate it. read more...

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Practical Experience in Automated Testing

methodsandtools.com — This article presents a practical perspective on test automation and the various points to consider for achieving positive results in this area. read more...

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Will Pair Programming Really Improve Your Project?

methodsandtools.com — This article takes a critical look at the pair programming practice of the agile extreme programming approach. read more...

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