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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 COURSES

	ANTONY MARCANO & RACHEL DAVIES' AGILE QA
	BDD AND SPECIFICATION BY EXAMPLE
	FRANK COHEN'S TEST AUTOMATION BOOTCAMP
	GOJKO ADZIC'S AGILE ACCEPTANCE TESTING INTRO
	GOJKO ADZIC'S AGILE ACCEPTANCE TESTING WORKSHOP
	GOJKO ADZIC'S TDD .NET DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
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	JANET GREGORY'S PRACTICAL AGILE TESTING WORKSHOP
	LIZ KEOGH'S BDD WORKSHOP
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	ROBERT SCHNEIDER'S SERVICE TESTING WITH SOAPUI
	VENKAT SUBRAMANIAM'S REFACTORING COURSE

AGILE TESTING & BDD PODCASTS

	Interactive Agile Acceptance Testing Cli David Evans : 2nd Mar 2010
	Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback Elizabeth Keogh : 1st Mar 2010
	Acceptance-Test Driven Development - Br John Smart : 11th Feb 2010
	Using Cucumber for BDD and Agile accepta Gojko Adzic : 4th Feb 2010
	Waking up to the New Economics of IT Emma McGrattan : 15th Dec 2009
	using BDD Mauro Talevi : 14th Dec 2009
	Agile testing Nathan Bain : 3rd Dec 2009
	Interview David Joyce : 1st Dec 2009
	Interview David Laribee : 1st Dec 2009
	Interview David Laribee : 1st Dec 2009
	How to sell BDD to the business Dan North : 27th Nov 2009
	Lessons Learned Implementing Agile Janet Gregory : 27th Nov 2009
	Challenge requirements Gojko Adzic : 27th Nov 2009
	Parkbench Panel Discussion : 27th Nov 2009
	Fractal BDD Elizabeth Keogh : 27th Nov 2009

OTHER AGILE TESTING & BDD EVENTS

	Gojko Adzic's TDD Java Development Workshop 2 DAY COURSE. Paris, Wednesday, March 31st
	Agile Testing meetup group FREE EVENT: Gems of Selenium... London, Tuesday, April 6th
	Liz Keogh's BDD Workshop 1 DAY COURSE. Featuring Elizabeth Keogh London, Friday, April 9th
	Robert Schneider's Service Testing w soapUI Pro 2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Robert Schneider London, Tuesday, April 20th
	Gojko Adzic's Agile Acceptance Testing workshop 3 DAY COURSE. Featuring Gojko Adzic London, Monday, May 10th
	Venkat Subramaniam's Refactoring Course 1 DAY COURSE. Featuring Venkat Subramaniam London, Friday, May 14th
	Frank Cohen's Test Automation BootCamp 2.5 DAY COURSE. Paris, Monday, June 14th
	Antony Marcano & Rachel Davies' Agile QA 2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Rachel Davies & Antony Marcano London, Tuesday, June 15th