Mikalai Alimenkou
Founder and coach, XP Injection, Ukraine
Senior Delivery Manager and Java Tech Lead. Expert in Java development, scalable architecture, Agile engineering practices and project management. Having 13+ years of development experience, specializes on complex distributed scalable systems. Active participant and speaker of many international conferences. Founder and coach in training center XP Injection. Organizer and founder of Selenium Camp, JEEConf, XP Days Ukraine and IT Brunch conferences. Founder of active “Anonymous developers club” (uadevclub).
Developer + tester = quality++
Agile approaches have significantly changed quality assurance practices and tester role. Now full team is responsible for testing and product quality. But not so many people know how such approaches could work in practice, how effective interaction between developers and testers is built, what stages does each task flow through on the way from requirements to acceptance by customer, who is doing what at each stage.
I know not many teams, that practice close collaboration between developer and tester. Some projects try to avoid such approach to save developer's time, some others try to keep tester's opinion completely independent from developer's influence. Developers also don't always understand how tester could help them in daily job. But in reality such pair could significantly improve product quality and avoid many typical issues.
In this talk we will cover motivation of pair work, concrete practices and approaches at different task implementation stages, and also about advantages, that could be achieved from such collaboration by both sides.
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