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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 an independent agile consultant, coach and trainer. He is an evangelist on agile testing, TDD, BDD and Specification by Example, and is a regular speaker at international conferences and seminars.
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PODCAST TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY: UNDERSTANDING THE DUALITY OF AGILE QUALITY

This session took part at the Agile Specifications, BDD and Testing eXchange. You can view the other 7 podcasts here.

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