Comments on: Agile 2009 – Day 1 http://www.shannoncornish.com/blog/2009/08/agile-2009-day-1/ Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:36:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: J. B. Rainsberger http://www.shannoncornish.com/blog/2009/08/agile-2009-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1012 J. B. Rainsberger Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:48:52 +0000 http://www.shannoncornish.com/blog/?p=153#comment-1012 Shannon, I’m sorry to read that you didn’t get what you wanted out of my session. You’re not the only person who saw “Integration Tests” and thought “Acceptance Tests”. When the Agile 2009 advertising machine first posted a notice including a link to my session, they incorrectly labeled it as “Acceptance Tests Are A Scam”, and I don’t think acceptance tests are a scam at all! I have a puzzle about your feedback and I want to understand it better. You write, “I was quite disappointed in how the talk turned into a unit testing practices session.” Why did this disappoint you? I can only infer from your lead sentence (”Hoping to get some answers to my questions regarding unit testing vs acceptance testing…”) that you expected me to put unit testing and acceptance testing in opposition or discuss how the two work together. Is that what you wanted? Perhaps I can still give you what you were looking for. Please go to http://www.jbrains.ca and email me directly with the questions you hoped I would answer in my talk. Thanks. Shannon, I’m sorry to read that you didn’t get what you wanted out of my session. You’re not the only person who saw “Integration Tests” and thought “Acceptance Tests”. When the Agile 2009 advertising machine first posted a notice including a link to my session, they incorrectly labeled it as “Acceptance Tests Are A Scam”, and I don’t think acceptance tests are a scam at all!

I have a puzzle about your feedback and I want to understand it better. You write, “I was quite disappointed in how the talk turned into a unit testing practices session.” Why did this disappoint you? I can only infer from your lead sentence (”Hoping to get some answers to my questions regarding unit testing vs acceptance testing…”) that you expected me to put unit testing and acceptance testing in opposition or discuss how the two work together. Is that what you wanted? Perhaps I can still give you what you were looking for. Please go to http://www.jbrains.ca and email me directly with the questions you hoped I would answer in my talk.

Thanks.

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