Committing to Quality Stage

Producer: Steve Freeman
Assistant: Keith Braithwaite

A distinguishing features of the Agile community is the commitment of many of its practitioners to maintaining high quality throughout the software lifecycle. We see this in practices such as continuous build, refactoring, and regular delivery. Now we regularly hear of teams that ship just the required features to production with no bugs, a significant improvement in the state of the art.

The motivations for this emphasis include a belief that high Quality is cheaper in practice, that it improves team morale, or even that it’s the only way that you can face yourself in the mirror every morning. But are we right? And what is Quality?

This stage is about raising, maintaining, justifying, and (not least) recognising Quality in software development. We are open to anything that’s relevant: workshops, tutorials, provocative talks, posters, and especially experience reports.

Timeslot	Session	Speaker 1	Speaker 2	Room
Tuesday
10:45-12:15	The Tester Who Came In From the Cold: Helping Testers Make an Agile Transition	Lisa Crispin	Janet Gregory	Conf. D
14:00-15:30	Build Analysis: Questions Answered, Questions Raised	Adam Goucher		Conf. D
	Software is a Princess, Another Mattress Won't Help - Why Small Things Matter in Agile	Patrick Farley	Zak Tamsen	Conf. D
		Patrick Farley	Zak Tamsen
16:00-17:30	Fast & Predictable - So many Scrum Teams, So Little Time: Enterprise Release Management in an Agile World	Amy Farrow	Steve Greene	Conf. D
	Agile Deployment: Lean Configuration Management and Deployment Strategies for the Agile SaaS Enterprise	Robert Benefield		Conf. D
		Robert Benefield
Wednesday
08:30-10:00	XUnit Test Patterns and Smells; Improving Test Code and Testability Through Refactoring	Gerard Meszaros		Conf. D
10:30-12:00		Gerard Meszaros		Conf. D
14:00-15:30	Skills for the Agile Designer	Rebecca Wirfs-Brock		Conf. D
16:00-17:30	Skills for the Agile Designer	Rebecca Wirfs-Brock		Conf. D
Thursday
08:30-10:00	Paving the way for Agile Testing	Eric Jimmink		Conf. E
	Paving the way for Agile Testing	Eric Jimmink
	Agile Teams Require Agile QA: How we made it work	Kealy Opelt	Tracy Beeson	Conf. E
08:30-12:00	Using TDD with Concurrent Applications	Brett Schuchert		Conf. D
10:30-12:00	Robust Performance of Complex Systems	Michael Nygard	Mary Poppendieck	Conf. E
14:00-15:30	What Is Your Unit Testing Philosophy?	Alistair McKinnell	Jason Cheong-Kee-You	Conf. D
14:00-15:30	Use-Case Recording: Testing a rich client UI by recording in a domain-specific language	Geoff Bache		Conf. E
14:00-15:30	Maintain High Quality Web Applications with a Green Web Acceptance Build that Runs Under 10 minutes	Philippe Hanrigou		Conf. E
16:00-17:30	Measuring the Effect of TDD	Keith Braithwaite		Conf. D
16:00-17:30	Technical lessons learned turning the agile dials to eleven!	Craig Smith	Paul King	Conf. E
	Automated Functional Testing on the TransCanada Alberta Gas Accounting Program of Projects	Stephen Marsh	Stelios Pantazopoulos
	Leading Manual Test Efforts with Agile Methods	Adam Geras
Friday
08:30-10:30	Effective Pairing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	Dave Nicholette		Conf. D

Review Team

Tracy Bialik - Pentad, USA
Simon Baker - Energized Work, UK
Dale Emery, Independent, USA
Jason Gorman - Parlezuml, UK
Janet Gregory - DragonFire, Canada
Kevlin Henney - Curbralan, UK
Chris Matts - Agile Business Coach, UK
Gus Power - Energized Work, UK
Russ Rufer - Pentad, USA

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