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From 6 to 60: Our Scaled Agile Testing Journey

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...

Reducing Risk when Changing Legacy Code

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...

Teaching Testing Through Exercises

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...

Bad Metrics and What You Can Do About It

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...

Creating and Implementing a Mobile Testing Strategy

by Michael Larsen | CAST2017

If you have ever worked on a mobile project, you know that there is a lot of variables. You can use simulators and emulators, but that will only take you so far. If you really want to be effective, you need to have real physical devices, and then you have to make a...

The Tales of Agile Testers – Transforming the Agile Team (CAST 2017 Keynote)

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...
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