In her Agile Testing class, Elisabeth Hendrickson conducts an exercise called the WordCount Simulation that is described in detail with this blog post.

Elisabeth Hendrickson gives a run-down of test automation tools and their characteristics in this blog post.

Simon Baker has blogged on some ailments, suggestions, and tools that can be used for effective pair-programming in this entry.

Mike Cohn has provided another great article on how a team can write non-functional requirements in a basic user story format.

George Dinwiddie has collected studies on Test-Driven Development (TDD) in the software industry here.

Mark Levison again provides great information about an important Agile development topic, Test-Driven Development (TDD), in this blog entry.

Uncle Bob has provided another interesting piece that focuses on the responsibility of people to do good work on their software projects.

Jakob Nielsen has written an article on usability in Agile development projects with some general guidelines and links to in depth research into best practices and a 2-day course.

Jim Shore has written a controversial and directed piece on the state of Agile and it’s future in this article.

Brian again provides an essential work to the Agile community. Find out how to “work with ease” reading the text of his keynote from the Agile Development Practices conference here.