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, 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...
by Michael Larsen | Articles, CAST2017, Events
I have to confess, this is a convergence of my interests. I am a huge fan of space travel and the challenges that space travel and exploration face fascinate me. Thus, I had to make a point to attend Andrea Connell’s talk “Testing Through Time and Space:...
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