Dinner conversations

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A few tidbits from dinner conversations: First, a couple of nights ago, Bret was talking about psychological barriers that hold us back. The example he gave was that maybe he wasn’t as successful as a developer because he didn’t want to redesign people’s code. This got me to pondering. I’m generally prone to avoid controversy. […]

More observations

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* Brian observed that it was interesting pairing because it seemed that at any given moment he wasn’t as confident in the code and his understanding of the code as it has historically been on his own (but as long as the sum total of confidence was ok, he was ok with that). He attributed […]

BC’s thoughts on Ruby

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BC posted a writeup over on her livejournal about her thoughts on Ruby after this week. Her post also makes me remember that none of my LJ friends show up on my blogroll…. need to do something about that perhaps. Anyhow, here’s BC’s post: http://www.livejournal.com/users/bcholmes/56382.html. Update: Fixed the link. An extra colon migrated in

Day 6

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We discussed a little more testing this morning. I was still waking up, but here’s what I pulled out as key points in the discussion: * End to end tests put the other tests in context * 3 categories of tests: programmer, customer, tester * Testers might look for risks that wouldn’t occur to the […]

Observations

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Tonight we spent the after dinner session taking a first crack at describing what we’ve learned from the session so far. I imagine we’ll be revisiting the topic again in the next couple of days, but here’s the slightly annotated list of points we came up with tonight… Managing XP with cards is like chartered […]

Metrics in XP

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This post is in more of a notes style than my previous ones. I was originally planning on making this more prose-like, but I’m not going to after all. I kind of like the way it reads now. Maybe it’ll lead to more questions, but I’m going to call it a blogging experiment. 🙂 Cem […]

Day 5

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Stories for Rublog project: Article synopses Trace package AT Harness Search Hook up tester.rb Archive bug reports Update change log BUG: Number of articles varies with navigation We also identified several themes: making it easier for the next people to pick up the code and do something with it, and test-first acceptance testing For each […]

On exploratory testing

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Cem and James talked about exploratory testing — Cem talked about exploratory testing in terms of categorizing knowledge — by risk, test technique, or approach. Though I wasn’t there, from other comments (and talks with James), I would guess he talked about the use of heuristics and skeptical questioning of the application. He gave the […]

Day 3 wrap-up

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You may have noticed that I’m blogging less and less on each day. Some of this is because the planning and procedural stuff is becoming less emphasized as we work more on getting a story done. While I could say “we wrote code” it doesn’t seem the same to me in terms of what I […]