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The authors have spent the past year building a test team in the high-speed, high-change environment of an Internet development company. As we’d hoped, the Agile values helped us tackle the difficulties of testing in such an environment. We also discovered that the Agile values helped us with the politics of working with other teams and obtaining support in the organization.
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Johansen, K., Perkins, A. (2002). Establishing an Agile Testing Team: Our Four Favorite “Mistakes”. In: Wells, D., Williams, L. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Methods — XP/Agile Universe 2002. XP/Agile Universe 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2418. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45672-4_6
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