{"id":1640,"date":"2013-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/04\/18\/1589\/"},"modified":"2013-04-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T22:00:00","slug":"1589","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/04\/18\/1589\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Smith: We are Principled: 6th Edition (on bugs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Smith \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.8thlight.com\/eric-smith\/2013\/04\/08\/we-are-principled-6.html\">We are Principled: 6th Edition<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many reasons to practice the demo but one of the biggest benefit is catching missed requirements. I couldn&#8217;t list the number of times one team member would demonstrate a feature only to realize they had left something out or made a simple mistake, usually before the person they were demonstrating to could even catch it. The simple act of walking through the feature slowly proved immensely beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] Development, QA and management are all represented, and then somebody will ask QA: &#8222;So how come YOU didn&#8217;t catch this bug?&#8220; It&#8217;s said with an accusatory emphasis on YOU because after all it&#8217;s QA&#8217;s job to catch bugs and if they aren&#8217;t catching them, then what are they doing? The poor QA lead fumbles around, mentions they&#8217;ll add a test for it so it won&#8217;t happen next time, and development goes on doing the same thing they&#8217;ve always done.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] If a mistake was made it&#8217;s because development made it, not because QA didn&#8217;t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichRogersHDS\/status\/324674976592572416\">Rich Rogers<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Smith \u2013 We are Principled: 6th Edition: \u201cThere are many reasons to practice the demo but one of the biggest benefit is catching missed requirements. I couldn&#8217;t list the number of times one team member would demonstrate a feature only to realize they had left something out or made a simple mistake, usually before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}