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In the Web 2.0 age, end-to-end web testing provides tremendous feedback on the quality of your Web application. However this feedback cycle is typically quite long and comes at a high maintenance price. This talk shares our field experience in establishing web acceptance test suites with high return on investment (ROI) for Web applications.

Although not a clearly defined role, we believe an Agile organization needs managers: ones with new skills, alternate mind sets, and fresh perspectives on managing. In this session we define a framework for Agile managers with eight competency areas, then springboard into a highly interactive discovery session with breakouts by competency. Participants will leave with tools and best practices they can use immediately to help the manager in their life.

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Many agile teams use Continuous Integration (CI). It’s one of the XP practices that has been broadly adopted. How effective is it? Does the effort of maintaining the CI server save time over a lengthier process that attempts to never break the build? While much anecdotal evidence exists to the benefits of CI there is little supporting data. How do you convince teams that it’s worth adopting and how best to do it? This report covers experiences with CI in a distributed team environment and attempts to answer these questions.

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At a Glance
This session provides ideas and approaches on how to promote a culture of continuous improvement and perpetual learning among teams of software developers in a corporate setting. It provides specific examples of approaches that have been successful at large companies such as Travelers Insurance and Google, focusing not only on how to spread knowledge, but also on how to evaluate progress and measure success. It also presents some lessons learned, and looks to the audience to share their thoughts and experience on where to go from here.