This is an straight from the heart experience report about software process evolution. This talk is a story of how we evolved from various testing tools and processes to one that cares deeply about clean code, test coverage, code quality and a modified agile project management. It talks about choosing clients, tools and processes wisely.

1. Don’t Test your Code
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Not about Going
in the Wild

3. https://flic.kr/p/9FzE7d
Don’t Deploy
without testing

4. No Manual QA
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5. A story about an outlook

6. A story about an outlook

7. A story about an outlook

8. A story about an outlook

9. Since 2007

10. Ruby On Rails Since 2007

11. Ruby On Rails Since 2007
Only

12. 2007 A refugee

13. 2007 A refugee
Hand to mouth existence
No money
No entrepreneur experience
Personal Liabilities

14. 2007 A refugee
Get Clients
Whatever pays the bills

15. 2007 A refugee
Get Clients
Whatever pays the bills
Open Source… WAT?

16. 2007 war at

17. 2007 war at
QA
Engineer
Developer

18. 2008 war at

19. 2008 war at
Developer
QA

20. 2008 war at
Developer
QA
Client

21. Doing the right things!

22. Doing the right things!
Doing things right!

23. Choose the right
customers
Quality wins over time
and cost

24. 2010 - The new order
No fixed cost work
Estimate a budget

25. 2010 - The new order
No fixed cost
Estimate Forcast a budget

26. 2010 - The new order
No fixed cost
Estimate Forcast a budget
Stay in our area of Expertize,
Innovation or Learning
Be prepared to reject work

27. 2010 - The new order
Automated Tests
Agile Project Management
Automated Code Quality Checks
Continuous Integration

28. Old Arsenal

29. Old Arsenal

31. New Arsenal
https://flic.kr/p/dykJ1U

32. New Arsenal
https://flic.kr/p/dykJ1U

33. Project Management

34. Project Management

35. Project Management
No
estimates

36. Project Management

37. Project Management
Pause
iterations!

38. Project Management
Pause
iterations!

39. Continuous Integration

40. Continuous Integration

41. Test Coverage

42. Test Coverage

43. Test Coverage

44. Code Quality Metric

45. Code Quality Metric

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48. Visual testing
Cross Browser Testing
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49. Agile Process?
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50. Agile Process?
2 week iterations.
No daily standup
No emails
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51. Agile Process?
Customers talk to the dev directly
No man in the middle
Chat / Skype / Phone
Log everything to Project Mgmt Tool.
https://flic.kr/p/ceUxBo

52. Agile Billing
https://flic.kr/p/chEwR9

53. Agile Billing
Pay as you go
In small instalments
No Advance
Every 2 weeks
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54. Agile Billing
Pay as you go
In small instalments
No Advance
Every 2 weeks
https://flic.kr/p/chEwR9
Build
Trust

55. Keep everyone on
their toes
https://flic.kr/p/6aNpxA

56. Winners
Customer values Developers Time
Developer values Customers Money

58. Questions?
@gautamrege
@joshsoftware