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Agile Specifications, BDD and Testing eXchange: David Evans on Two Sides to Every Story: Understanding the duality of agile quality

Two Sides to Every Story: Understanding the duality of agile quality
When considering quality assurance in agile environments, we are faced with many important dualities. In particular, functional vs non-functional views of quality. Remembering that testing is a measurement activity, and that agile success is about making educated and conscious trade-offs concerning scope, quality and time, our focus should move from asking 'what' to 'how well' when critiquing the acceptability of a product. In this talk I recap some of the latest views of a number of thought-leaders in the agile industry and discuss how they have influenced my own views on agile testing and quality. I argue that as an industry we run the risk of being too narrowly focussed on functionality, instead of reliably driving, measuring and improving the qualities that our stakeholders really care about.

ABOUT DAVID EVANS

David Evans is a developer-turned tester, and agile testing evangelist. He is a director in testing company SQS.
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PODCAST TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY: UNDERSTANDING THE DUALITY OF AGILE QUALITY

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