program selection system

In the playground world of software development, Agility has cool shoes and the latest gadgets. Testing has asthma and sticking plaster on his glasses.

Does testing have anything desirable at all to bring to the party? This discussion-based track proposes that testers bring something at odds with Agile approaches; disbelief, cynicism, pessimism. It is by defeating these that the software shows that it is genuinely ready to meet the real world.

Can one truly be an ‘agile tester’? Would that be a good thing?

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