Even if Agile approaches favor collocated teams, distributed Scrum teams with remote work are more common that what you might think. Many Agile software development teams are based on a virtual organization.
As many testers have, I struggled in my first year on a Scrum team. How do I write tests without a spec? How do I know when I am done with software testing when there is no test plan? This article shows the important contributions that software testers on Agile teams can make in the requirements gathering activities of feature and user stories creation.
Martin Fowler defined refactoring as a ” disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior”. In the days of Agile development where code is delivered after one or two-week cycles, you start quickly to deal with “legacy” code, what was known as “maintenance” for projects that had longer delivery time frames.
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