Let’s start at the beginning. Somebody, somewhere, needs some software. Maybe we’re serving an internal “customer” who needs a simple bailing-wire-and-duct-tape app to connect system A with completely unrelated (except that they need to be able to share data) system B. Or maybe we’re in a startup that’s trying to Change the World with a [...]

I talk to a lot of people in organizations that use some flavor of Agile. Almost all of them, even the teams that are succeeding wildly with Agile, struggle with testing. It’s easy to say that we test throughout the cycle. It’s harder to do it. Some teams are really struggling with testing, and it’s [...]