After dinner, we began the process with introducing ourselves and discussing our goals for the next week. There’s a very good mix of programmers and testers here, and I’m even more excited about this week than I was before getting here (assuming that’s possible). Here’s the notes from the goals session (in the extended entry which I’ve never used in Moveable Type before).
Goals of Agile Fusion
- Talk about testing
- Do Extreme Programming
- Understand test-first acceptance testing
- Understand how testers/programmers fit together
- Explore exploratory testing
- SEMINAL EVENT!
- Be happy
- Brian wants something to do
- Do-first conferring (spend the first part of the day doing extreme programming, then finish the day by talking about it)
- Be immersed in Ruby Project
- Explore testing existing code
- See other people work
- Learn Ruby
- Citeable examples of testability
- Explore Ruby as tester lingua franca
- Learn something practical
- Reconnect with joy of working with programmers
- pairing with smart testers
- Steal good ideas
- Learning through articulation
- How to turn average testers into really good testers
- How to keep testers useful over time
- How to explain test strategy over course of project
- Writing better test cases
- Tests as documentation — how can that work?
- Seeing other peoples’ style of work
- Looking at process of coming together — how quickly are we productive?
- Opportunity to work with testers
- Explore limits of automated testing
- Exploring balanace between programmers and testers — how we can help each other?
- Document our process
- Make friends
- Do cool stuff
- Cut code
- Get home again with no stress
- Ways of using FIT