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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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AGILE TESTING & BDD PODCASTS
David Evans:Interactive Agile Acceptance Testing Clinic, Interactive Agile Acceptance Testing Cli
David Evans : 2nd Mar 2010
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Elizabeth   Keogh:Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback, Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback
Elizabeth Keogh : 1st Mar 2010
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John Smart:Acceptance-Test Driven Development - Bring Developers and Testers Together, Acceptance-Test Driven Development - Br
John Smart : 11th Feb 2010
View Podcast: Acceptance-Test Driven Development - Bring Developers and Testers Together,
Gojko Adzic:Using Cucumber for BDD and Agile Acceptance Testing, Using Cucumber for BDD and Agile accepta
Gojko Adzic : 4th Feb 2010
View Podcast: Using Cucumber for BDD and Agile Acceptance Testing,
Emma McGrattan:Waking up to the New Economics of IT, Waking up to the New Economics of IT
Emma McGrattan : 15th Dec 2009
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Mauro  Talevi:A Year of Misbehaving - A Retrospective on using BDD in a commercial enterprise, using BDD
Mauro Talevi : 14th Dec 2009
View Podcast: A Year of Misbehaving - A Retrospective on using BDD in a commercial enterprise,
Nathan  Bain:Agile testing, Agile testing
Nathan Bain : 3rd Dec 2009
View Podcast: Agile testing,
David Joyce:Interview, Interview
David Joyce : 1st Dec 2009
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David Laribee:Interview, Interview
David Laribee : 1st Dec 2009
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David Laribee:Interview, Interview
David Laribee : 1st Dec 2009
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Dan North:How to sell BDD to the business - , How to sell BDD to the business
Dan North : 27th Nov 2009
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Janet Gregory:Lessons Learned Implementing Agile - From a Testing Perspective, Lessons Learned Implementing Agile
Janet Gregory : 27th Nov 2009
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Gojko Adzic:Challenge requirements, Challenge requirements
Gojko Adzic : 27th Nov 2009
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 :Parkbench Panel Discussion, Parkbench Panel Discussion
: 27th Nov 2009
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Elizabeth   Keogh:Fractal BDD, Fractal BDD
Elizabeth Keogh : 27th Nov 2009
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OTHER AGILE TESTING & BDD EVENTS
:Gojko Adzic's Test Driven Java Development Workshop,  Gojko Adzic's TDD Java Development Workshop
2 DAY COURSE.
Paris, Wednesday, March 31st
Agile Testing meetup group:Gems of Selenium, Agile Testing meetup group
FREE EVENT: Gems of Selenium...
London, Tuesday, April 6th
Elizabeth   Keogh:Liz Keogh's BDD Immersion Workshop: Behaviour-Driven Development for Developers,  Liz Keogh's BDD Workshop
1 DAY COURSE. Featuring Elizabeth Keogh
London, Friday, April 9th
Robert Schneider:Mission-Critical Service Testing Using soapUI Pro,  Robert Schneider's Service Testing w soapUI Pro
2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Robert Schneider
London, Tuesday, April 20th
Gojko Adzic:Gojko Adzic's Hands-on Agile Acceptance Testing & Specification by Example with FitNesse Workshop,  Gojko Adzic's Agile Acceptance Testing workshop
3 DAY COURSE. Featuring Gojko Adzic
London, Monday, May 10th
Venkat Subramaniam:Venkat Subramaniam's Refactoring: A Key Step in Agility,  Venkat Subramaniam's Refactoring Course
1 DAY COURSE. Featuring Venkat Subramaniam
London, Friday, May 14th
:Frank Cohen's Test Automation BootCamp,  Frank Cohen's Test Automation BootCamp
2.5 DAY COURSE.
Paris, Monday, June 14th
Rachel Davies & Antony Marcano:Antony Marcano & Rachel Davies' Agile QA course,  Antony Marcano & Rachel Davies' Agile QA
2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Rachel Davies & Antony Marcano
London, Tuesday, June 15th
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