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Pairing On a Mission

October 12, 2014 / Lisa Crispin / continuous integration, pairing, test automation, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / No Comments

Most of us have more we’d like to do than the time to do it, even if we’re in an experienced agile team working at a sustainable pace. A couple of us that work on our iOS team wanted to try automating some UI regression tests. The programmers write their code using TDD with good […]

Advancing collaboration

June 16, 2013 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, collaborating, communicating, learning for testers, pairing, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 5 Comments

You know how some topic will come up, and suddenly you notice it’s coming up over and over in different contexts? Lately, for me, that topic has been collaboration among roles on software teams. My own team practices a “Whole Team” approach to development, and we testers work closely with the developers on a daily […]

The Whole Team Approach in Practice

April 26, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, continuous integration, exploratory testing, feedback, learning for testers, pairing, planning, shortened feedback loop, software quality, test automation, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 7 Comments

I’ve just been struggling with a title for this post. Some of my ideas were: “Visibility Taken to New Heights”, “Yes, There Are Teams Who Do This Just Like In the Books”, “A Real Commitment to Continual Improvement”, “Inspiration”, but none of them really capture my amazement at what I saw visiting the team at […]

CodeRetreat Boulder: A Tester’s Experience

February 28, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / code design, learning for testers, pairing, test automation, training / 1 Comment

This past Saturday I was fortunate to be one of the 60 people enrolled for the largest Code Retreat ever, Code Retreat Boulder, facilitated by Corey Haines and Chad Fowler, organized by Prakash Murthy. This was my first Code Retreat, though I’ve worked on teams practicing TDD, pair programming, and good design practices for more […]