Committing to Quality Stage
Producer: Steve Freeman
Assistant: Keith Braithwaite
A distinguishing features of the Agile community is the commitment of many of its practitioners to maintaining high quality throughout the software lifecycle. We see this in practices such as continuous build, refactoring, and regular delivery. Now we regularly hear of teams that ship just the required features to production with no bugs, a significant improvement in the state of the art.
The motivations for this emphasis include a belief that high Quality is cheaper in practice, that it improves team morale, or even that it’s the only way that you can face yourself in the mirror every morning. But are we right? And what is Quality?
This stage is about raising, maintaining, justifying, and (not least) recognising Quality in software development. We are open to anything that’s relevant: workshops, tutorials, provocative talks, posters, and especially experience reports.
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Speaker 2 |
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| Tuesday | ||||
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10:45-12:15 |
The Tester Who Came In From the Cold: Helping Testers Make an Agile Transition |
Conf. D |
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14:00-15:30 |
Build Analysis: Questions Answered, Questions Raised |
Adam Goucher |
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Conf. D |
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Software is a Princess, Another Mattress Won't Help - Why Small Things Matter in Agile |
Patrick Farley |
Zak Tamsen |
Conf. D |
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16:00-17:30 |
Fast & Predictable - So many Scrum Teams, So Little Time: Enterprise Release Management in an Agile World |
Amy Farrow |
Steve Greene |
Conf. D |
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Agile Deployment: Lean Configuration Management and Deployment Strategies for the Agile SaaS Enterprise |
Robert Benefield |
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Conf. D |
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| Wednesday | ||||
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08:30-10:00 |
XUnit Test Patterns and Smells; Improving Test Code and Testability Through Refactoring |
Gerard Meszaros |
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Conf. D |
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10:30-12:00 |
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14:00-15:30 |
Skills for the Agile Designer |
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock |
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Conf. D |
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16:00-17:30 |
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| Thursday | ||||
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08:30-10:00 |
Paving the way for Agile Testing |
Eric Jimmink |
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Conf. E |
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Agile Teams Require Agile QA: How we made it work |
Kealy Opelt |
Tracy Beeson |
Conf. E |
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08:30-12:00 |
Brett Schuchert |
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Conf. D |
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10:30-12:00 |
Robust Performance of Complex Systems |
Michael Nygard |
Conf. E |
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14:00-15:30 |
What Is Your Unit Testing Philosophy? |
Alistair McKinnell |
Jason Cheong-Kee-You |
Conf. D |
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14:00-15:30 |
Use-Case Recording: Testing a rich client UI by recording in a domain-specific language |
Geoff Bache |
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Conf. E |
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Maintain High Quality Web Applications with a Green Web Acceptance Build that Runs Under 10 minutes |
Philippe Hanrigou |
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16:00-17:30 |
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Conf. D |
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16:00-17:30 |
Technical lessons learned turning the agile dials to eleven! |
Conf. E |
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Automated Functional Testing on the TransCanada Alberta Gas Accounting Program of Projects |
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08:30-10:30 |
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Conf. D |
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Review Team
- Tracy Bialik - Pentad, USA
- Simon Baker - Energized Work, UK
- Dale Emery, Independent, USA
- Jason Gorman - Parlezuml, UK
- Janet Gregory - DragonFire, Canada
- Kevlin Henney - Curbralan, UK
- Chris Matts - Agile Business Coach, UK
- Gus Power - Energized Work, UK
- Russ Rufer - Pentad, USA
