Is Quality Negotiable?

are. That’s OK, this is XP. He’s allowed to reduce scope in return for increased quality. We’ll negotiate about that in the next iteration.

References

  1. Beck, Kent. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change . Addison-Wesley, 2000.
  2. Jeffries, Ron. Email “New file uploaded”, on extremeprogramming egroup, March 12, 2001.
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Lisa Crispin is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009), co-author with Tip House of Extreme Testing (Addison-Wesley, 2002) and a contributor to Beautiful Testing (O’Reilly, 2009) and Experiences of Test Automation by Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster (Addison-Wesley, 2011). She has worked as a tester on agile teamssince 2000, and enjoys sharing her experiences via writing, presenting, teaching and participating in agile testing communities around the world. Lisa was named one of the 13 Women of Influence in testing by Software Test & Performance magazine in 2009. For more about Lisa’s work, visit www.lisacrispin.com.