CYC- Cover your code

The most fundamental principle behind Agile is to make software in an iterative fashion. What this means is - in every iteration, you add some more business value (read features) to the product. This works smoothly only if you are committed to only “moving forward” i.e. you never break existing features- even if you have to refactor [...]

BUGs - Boston User Groups

These are the few user groups that I go to or keep track of regularly to see if they are discussing a topic that is of specific interest to me.

NEJUG

New England Java User group. It has been there almost for ever. They have some excellent speaker line up and its a very active user group. [...]

Dev and QA- blurring the lines

Few weeks ago, I was talking to Jon about how the Agile adoption has been working for us.

One of the things I talked to him that day was - my observation that the developers were scrambling to get the development done during the beginning of the sprint and then it was la-la land towards the end.  And it was opposite for the testers. I found [...]