Tools for Agility Stage

Producer: Rick Mugridge
Assistant: Ron Jeffries

Intelligence-enhancing tools for agile software development can help us to think and to communicate in old and in new ways. They provide a conceptual "language" that can allow us to be expressive and creative. Programmer-testing tools, for example, allow us to specify and to design, as well as test. Such tools can help us as we change our mind, as our understanding evolves.

Tools can also trap us into seeing the world in a limited way. They can encourage us to achieve the wrong things faster. They can act as deterrents to needed change. And they can lead to our over compartmentalizing our tasks, teams, and minds.

Tools for Agility consists of two streams that run in parallel through the conference.

General Tools for Agility

This includes sessions on:

• Tools for Planning, Task tracking, and Deployment
• Tools for Continuous Integration
• Critical Chain and Agile
• Tools Frameworks and Tools Selection
• Tools to support collaboration and organizational change
• Exploratory testing and testing in parallel

Tools for Test Driven Development

This includes sessions on:

• Ajax
• Selenium
• FitNesse
• Groovy
• RSpec and BDD
• TextTest
• Open source web testing tools
• Domain specific testing languages

Timeslot	Session	Speaker 1	Speaker 2	Room
Tuesday
10:45-12:15	Rethinking Unit Testing: xUnit.net	James Newkirk	Brad Wilson	Osgood East
10:45-12:15	APDT: An Agile Planning Tool for Digital Tabletops	Xin Wang	Frank Maurer	Sheraton Hall A
	See Large Scale Multi-Stage Continuous Integration in Real Time	Damon Poole	Joshua Sherwood
	Tangible Bug Tracking using LEGO bricks	Takeshi Kakeda
10:45-12:15	Test-Driven Ajax	Johannes Link		Sheraton Hall B
14:00-17:30	Maven and Continuum - building an ecosystem for Agile builds and testing	Christian Gruber		Sheraton Hall A
14:00-15:30	Mastering Selenium	John Tangney		Sheraton Hall B
16:00-17:30	Open source performance testing tools for the web	Paul King	Dalton Cranston	Sheraton Hall B
Wednesday
10:30-12:00	Tools, Frameworks and Libraries: the Devil's work or Manna from Heaven?	Mike Hill		Sheraton Hall A
14:00-15:30	Drifting Toward Invisibility: the transition to the electronic task board	Tom Perry		Sheraton Hall A
	Pushing the boundaries of testing and Continuous Integration	Fabrizio Cannizzo	Raghav Ramesh
	Migrating from SharePoint to a Better Scrum Tool	Edward Uy	Rene Rosendahl
14:00-15:30	Narrative Testing: Tools for Story Test Driven Development	Michael Phoenix	Rand Huso	Sheraton Hall B
16:00-17:30	It’s Our Schedule, Let’s Manage It! (Backlogs & Burndowns as tools for Agile Project Planning)	Kelly Weyrauch		Sheraton Hall A
16:00-17:30	Executable User Stories with RSpec and BDD	Aslak Hellesøy		Sheraton Hall B
Thursday
08:30-10:00	Using Agile engineering tools and practices to achieve Organizational Change	Christian Gruber		Sheraton Hall A
08:30-10:00	Text-based Acceptance Testing using TextTest	Geoff Bache	Emily Bache	Sheraton Hall B
10:30-12:00	Evolution of the Tools and Practices to Achieve Organizational Change	Fabrizio Cannizzo	Paul Moser	Sheraton Hall A
	JTestMe - improving test feedback and reducing build times with dynamically defined optimised smoke tests	Joshua Graham
	Adopting agile testing practices when legacy tools and practices rule !	Xavier Warzee
10:30-12:00	Domain Specific Testing Languages	Michael Phoenix	Rand Huso	Sheraton Hall B
14:00-15:30	JDemo - lightweight exploratory developer testing	Ilja Preuß		Sheraton Hall A
14:00-15:30	FitNesse Demo	Naresh Jain		Sheraton Hall B
16:00-17:30	Workshop on build/test grids and selective testing tools	David Vydra		Sheraton Hall A
16:00-17:30	Effective test-driven database development	Gojko Adzic	Marisa Seal	Sheraton Hall B
Friday
08:30-10:00	Collaboration Explained--Tools for Facilitating Real Agile Teams	Jean Tabaka		Sheraton Hall A
08:30-10:00	Test Driven Development for Data Management projects using FIT4Data	Adrian Mowat		Sheraton Hall B

Review Team

• Jennitta Andrea - The Andrea Group, Canada
• Dave Astels - Google, USA
• Geoff Bache - Jeppesen, Sweden
• Hubert Baumeister - Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• Kent Beck - Three Rivers Institute, USA
• Mike Cohn - Mountain Goat Software, USA
• Bob Evans - Agitar Software, USA
• Michael Feathers - Object Mentor, USA
• Steve Freeman - Independent Consultant, UK
• Chet Hendrickson - Hendrickson XP, USA
• Manfred Lange - Agile Utilities NZ Ltd, New Zealand
• Pekka Laukkanen - Eliga Oy, Finland
• Brian Marick - Exampler Consulting, USA
• Micah Martin - 8th Light Inc., USA
• Jean McAuliffe - USA
• Jim McFarland - Oracle Corporation, USA
• Keith Nicholas - Compac Sorting, New Zealand
• William Petri - Scissor, USA
• J. B. Rainsberger - Independent Consultant, Canada
• Mike Roberts - NYSE Euronext, USA
• Ahmed Sidky - X2A Consulting, USA/Egypt
• Matteo Vaccari - Sourcesense, Italy
• Bas Vode - Nokia Siemens Networks, China
• William Wake - Gene Codes Forensics Inc., USA