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Design Documentation

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. A few years ago, I worked on a team that was trying to move the business side away from the waterfall method into more of an agile approach so there wouldn’t be such a disconnect […]

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Real Testing Example, Part Two

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. What with upward of two people saying nice things about last week’s post, I’ve decided to keep going with part two of a look at some real testing code. Most code-heavy tutorials show the code […]

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A Real Testing Example

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. As sort-of promised in last week’s post, I’m going to work through a real-world test example, with an eye toward explaining how and why I tested the way I did. Hopefully, I’ll be able to […]

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Agile Fundamentals: The Feedback Loop

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. — John Wooden photo credit: mister b 1138 A few weeks ago I had a discussion with some colleagues on the adoption of Agile […]

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Adjusting RPF Processes for Agile Development

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Agile development, when done right, results in better software at a lower cost. More and more companies are coming to this conclusion, but most are struggling with how to adjust their RFP and Governance processes […]

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The Return of the Cucumber

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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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