Improving Podcasts

Allen and Mike get together on Memorial Day to discuss a few articles from around the Agile web. The tour touches on the “Sufficient Design” discussion, whether the term “refactoring” is already dead, and whether certifications are good, irrelevant, evil, or all of the above.

Links:

• Joshua Kerievsky – Sufficient Design
• Joshua Kerievsky – When Sufficient Design Means Poor Design
• Ron Jeffries – Quality vs Speed? I Don’t Think So!
• Robert C. Martin – Sufficient Design means Damned Good Design
• Steven Ropa – Refactoring: You keep using that word…
• Naresh Jain – I know TDD coz…
• Naresh Jain – Social Credibility: Alternatives to Certification?
• Chet Hendrickson – One More Arrow In Our Quiver
• Ron Jeffries – Certified, Heard About It, Done It … Expert
• Bob Martin – Certification: Don’t Waste Your Time!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:42 — 19.7MB)

Ed Gannan joins Allen and Mike for a discussion of Quality Assurance in an Agile environment. Topics include:

• Teams, not just testers provide for QA
• Acceptance Test-Driven Development
• Who should test the system?
• It’s about transparency
• Types of tests
• Testers are failed developers. Not.

Links:

• Dean Leffingwell’s in-progress Agile Requirements (chapter 10 on acceptance testing is available for download)
• Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory
• Spring Roo 1.0
• Google Apps Standard Edition (formerly Google Apps for My Domain)
• HTC Hero (Ed’s new phone)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:45 — 24.7MB)