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Software Testing and Agile

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Take a moment to think about where you were in February of 2001—at the inception of the Agile Manifesto. I was with a privately held software engineering firm focused on helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities. Simply put, we continue to produce more code each day than we can test.

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Taking an Extreme Approach to Software

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Rather than planning, analyzing, and designing for the far-flung future, XP programmers do all of these activities—a little at a time—throughout development.” I was searching for something related to software engineering and stumbled across a paper on Extreme Programming (XP) by Kent Beck. Happy 20 th Anniversary Agile!

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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

Every week, we look at software engineering topics, and this week, I have a special show for you. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. In 2001, 17 of the lightweight methodology proponents met at a ski resort in Utah to discuss unifying their efforts. Cargo Cult Agilists.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

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Then the internet began to invade the world, and it eventually became the delivery mechanism for a large fraction of the software being developed today. Today, most software development is not a stand-alone process, but rather a part of developing products or services. In 2001 the Agile Manifesto (Beck et al.,