http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2007/02/automated-testing-helps-scrum-succeed.html Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk. Fri, 18 May 2012 15:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2007/02/automated-testing-helps-scrum-succeed.html/comment-page-1#comment-537 Will Sargent Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:18:40 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=7995#comment-537 Erk, I mean release management, not configuration management... Erk, I mean release management, not configuration management…

]]> http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2007/02/automated-testing-helps-scrum-succeed.html/comment-page-1#comment-536 Will Sargent Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:17:55 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=7995#comment-536 I think it's interesting that one of the cornerstones of agile is having a strong automated test suite, and yet the details of putting together an automated test suite are so hairy and specific. The same goes for software configuration management -- just putting out a build and having the configuration (database, SMTP server, etc) separated from the binaries for different environments can be surprisingly complicated. I think it’s interesting that one of the cornerstones of agile is having a strong automated test suite, and yet the details of putting together an automated test suite are so hairy and specific.
The same goes for software configuration management — just putting out a build and having the configuration (database, SMTP server, etc) separated from the binaries for different environments can be surprisingly complicated.

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