These slides are for a keynote presentation I will be doing for Cutter Agile Mexico next week. Looking forward to a great conference. The Software Debt Bubble: Is It About to Burst View more presentations from Chris Sterling
Archives for Acceptance Testing
Towards a Push-Button Release
This presentation is being delivered as a 45-minute lecture and discussion for a company-wide tech talk today. It contains 2 case studies that revolve around moving to a push-button release that reduced the whole product company’s release cycles from 6 months to every week and the effects of a “No Defect” policy on a team’s [...]
Testing in an Agile Context
I presented the following in a webinar for Boeing this week on “Testing in an Agile Context”. The focus of the webinar was to discuss differences in approach for testing when moving to an Agile method. Hope that you enjoy. Please leave feedback in the comments section. Testing in an Agile Context 2011 View more [...]
Automated Promotion through Server Environments
To get towards continuous deployment, or even continuous validated builds, a team must take care of their automated build, test, analyze, deploy scripts. I always recommend that you have 2 scripts: deploy rollback And that these scripts are used many times per iteration to reduce the risk of surprises when deploying to downstream server environments, [...]
Using Sonar Metrics to Assess Promotion of Builds to Downstream Environments
For those of you that don’t already know about Sonar you are missing an important tool in your quality assessment arsenal. Sonar is an open source tool that is a foundational platform to manage your software’s quality. The image below shows one of the main dashboard views that teams can use to get insights into [...]
SeaSPIN Lightning Talk from Last Night
Thanks to Jeremy Lightsmith, the lightning talk I did last night at SeaSPIN on Portfolio Management and Software Debt was caught on video. The talk went over 5 ills that you might see in software projects that can affect strategic planning and some ways that can help identify the ills more quickly for planning purposes. [...]
