by Michael Larsen | Articles, CAST2017, Events
Wow, we are down to the last presentation of CAST 2017! These past two days have flown by. The final session I chose to attend was Cathy Toth’s talk about her organization’s ten-year journey towards effective Agile practices. Cathy described the day in...
by Michael Larsen | Articles, CAST2017, Events
Tina Fletcher used a clever imagery to help explain legacy code, and that was to look at ancient architecture with modern buildings built over/on top of it. Legacy code is code you inherited, don’t understand or is difficult to change. It’s also murky...
by Michael Larsen | Articles, CAST2017, Events
After a very nice lunch, we are convening with Matt Heusser and “Teaching Testing THrough Exercises”. Matt has prepared an app for us to test, based on palindromes. A palindrome is the same word backward and forwards. The app will tell us of the word being...
by Michael Larsen | Articles, CAST2017, Events
Sometimes the best of plans go sideways. I was planning on covering a totally different session but the speaker wasn’t able to be there. Being that AST is an organization that believes in adapting and the fact that a lot of people attending are frequent...
by Michael Larsen | Articles, CAST2017
Good morning. We’re geared up for Day Two after an excellent night out on Broadway (i.e. Music City USA, Nash Vegas, whatever you want to call it, some great music to be heard). We are excited for the new AST Board (Carol Brands, Kate Falanga, Maria Kedemo newly...
by Michael Larsen | Articles, CAST2017, Events
Raj Subramanian appeared on CASTcast Episode 15 to discuss this talk, “How Testers Become Effective Communicators”. For those who can’t be here for this talk, you can get a feel for the talk there. For those who want to have Carlene...
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