A Lucky Shot at Agile

Zeger Van Hese

Z-Sharp

This paper describes life as a tester in a team of agile rookies: the context – a major healthcare IT company – and what agile did and didn’t do for us. It describes the practices we adopted successfully, but also highlights mistakes and missed opportunities. Was our first shot at agile just a lucky shot or one that proved the value of agile methods? Through this paper Zeger describes the project he worked on, the problems he faced including hidden assumptions, changing requirements, scope creep and no test automation. Value of Agile Methods Zeger shares how the team adopted Agile processes…....

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About Me!

Zeger Van Hese has a background in Commercial Engineering and Cultural Science. He started his professional career in the motion picture industry but switched to IT in 1999. A year later he got bitten by the software testing bug (pun intended) and has never been cured since.

He has a passion for exploratory testing, testing in agile projects and, above all, continuous learning from different perspectives. Zeger considers himself a lifelong student of the software testing craft. He was program chair of Eurostar 2012 and co-founder of the Dutch Exploratory Workshop on Testing (DEWT). He muses about testing on his TestSideStory blog and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences. In 2013, Zeger founded his own company, Z-sharp.


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