American - Businessman | 1961 -
Extreme programming is an emotional experience.
Kent Beck
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.
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I used Agitator on some code I had unit-tested, and it made me a better tester. As an Agitar Fellow, I look forward to the leverage of working with an outstanding organization as together we continue to improve the value of developer testing.
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I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.
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Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.
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The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.
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One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made worked nicely and which we would have done differently.
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I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
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There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.
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There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.
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Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.
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