Author Archives: Mik Q

No more burndown, no more definition of done

Over the last year and a half of effectively working with 1 week iterations, two aspects of the traditional method of running an Agile project have not been required for us.  The first is the burndown chart, and the second … Continue reading

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Presentation on Behaviour Driven Development available

Here is the presentation I gave to the Los Angeles Java User Group about BDD and its application using Cucumber in the following contexts: testing REST APIs, testing web sites (integration with Selenium) and testing Hadoop / Hive. The slides … Continue reading

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Blackbox testing, Whitebox testing and Behaviour Driven Development

As I have mentioned before, I have been involved in the re-platform of the Inventory system here at Shopzilla for the last 14 months.  During this time we got to experiment with a couple of approaches with great success.  One … Continue reading

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Re-platforming a system and the value of 1 week iterations

For the last 14 months I have been working at Shopzilla to re-platform the Inventory system.  I haven’t had the time to blog about what we experimented with, what worked, what didn’t.  This is the first of a number of … Continue reading

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