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The Return of the Cucumber

agile, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I mentioned last week that the RubyMine post was replacing what I had meant to write about. Well, this week we finally get to it… It’s been about ten weeks since I wrote about Cucumber […]

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Cucumber Rocks - But it's not a replacement for unit tests

agile, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I admit that cucumber is awesome. It apparently was the big thing at Rails Conf this year. I love that my BA can write the requirements, I can throw them into a feature file, and […]

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Effective vs Efficient Teams

agile

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. We hear more and more about large organizations adopting Agile software development practices recently.  This is not surprising given that Agile practices have many advantages over traditional methods.  One significant difference with Agile is the […]

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Bugs Can't Be Estimated

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. In an earlier post about the benefits of Agile and Scrum, I made a statement that bugs by their nature are not the same as normal features, and I wanted to take a moment to […]

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Writing Agile Requirements

agile, Human Factors & UX, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. The beginning of a project generates a lot of great ideas. But until a structure or cohesion is applied to these ideas, they end up being a loose collection of separate ideas with no direction. […]

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Using Cucumber for Acceptance Testing

agile, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. A consistent nuisance problem when testing Rails applications is the “unit test gap”. This happens when the model test passes and the controller test passes, but the application as a whole fails because there’s a […]

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Definition of a Feature (Given … When … Then)

agile

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. At some point in their career, most everyone in software development has encountered the client who paints a very eloquent picture about their fantabulous idea that’s going to revolutionize the [insert industry vertical here]. However, […]

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Agile Development for PMs: Why Agile Testing Rocks?

agile, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. All software has bugs. I don’t care if you’re Apple, Microsoft, IBM, or a smaller, leaner ISV. Your software has bugs in it. Once you accept this fact, that into each software product a little […]

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Scrum Defined in Under 10 Minutes

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Hamid Shojaee from www.axosoft.com put together a great video to introduce the core concepts of Scrum and Agile practices called “Scrum in under 10 minutes”  I really like what he said particularly the focus on […]

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Crafting Good Requirements for Medical Device Software

agile, verification & validation

Good requirement documentation needs these key elements: User Stories, User Acceptance Tests, Workflows, Requirements (Details), and Wireframes.

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Agile Development and Testing: Unit or Montecarlo?

agile

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I’ve had a running debate with my colleague John McCaffrey on the question of testing. He is a big fan of unit testing and testing in general that examines the smallest possible units to be […]

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