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Shortly before the Sprint Review

The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #40

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size. The team members are: Little, the main character. The team’s tester. Coffee, the team’s Java developer. Mr. Fancy, the team’s … Continue reading The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #40

The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #39

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size. The team members are: Little, the main character. The team’s tester. Coffee, the team’s Java developer. Mr. Fancy, the team’s … Continue reading The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #39

The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #38

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size. The team members are: Little, the main character. The team’s tester. Coffee, the team’s Java developer. Mr. Fancy, the team’s … Continue reading The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #38

The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #37

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size. The team members are: Little, the main character. The team’s tester. Coffee, the team’s Java developer. Mr. Fancy, the team’s … Continue reading The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #37

The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #36

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size. The team members are: Little, the main character. The team’s tester. Coffee, the team’s Java developer. Mr. Fancy, the team’s … Continue reading The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #36

Persistent Positive Thinking

Confetti User Stories

Finding the right balance between “too big” and “too small” isn’t easy sometimes.

Lining up in the Ocean

It’s about how fast we can be wrong with our conclusions. I often see that we detect an alledged new issue, not realizing that the same anomaly was already there before. It’s easier and faster to judge without collecting the facts first. Things that ma…

Patched UFOs

When developers state, they didn’t change anything but one line of code, they actually believe that themselves. It’s just that they have a bias towards forgetting all the work they’ve done (plus their colleagues’) before their last coffee break.