The past week, Emanuele and I were in berlin to attend the agile testing days conference.
We made a speech about Continuous Integration, from theory to practice. It was my first “international” speech and it gone quite fine.
In those days I saw and I spoke with a lot of “agile-guru” like Tom and Mary Poppendieck and it was a beautiful experience.
The percept I had is that the rest of Europe is much more advanced than Italy about agile methodologies and theirs adoption.
For example, Sometimes when we go to our customers and suggest some agile practices, they look us in a strange way…I don’t know why? Some other speaker, instead, told me that in UK or in Germany, for example, the adoption of agile methodologies is almost a standard-de-facto and with their customers they speak about user stories or continuous integration in a natural way. I hope it will be like this also in Italy.

In conclusion, many thanks to Jose and all his staff for the great organization and…see you the next year!

Finally, we are in Berlin! Emanuele and I arrived yesterday, after a long travel.
It’s very cold: on saturday, I had a t-shirt on, today in Berlin it’s snowing almost.
Yesterday I had a half-marathon with Ema, but the first impact with this city is not so good…maybe for the rain, maybe for the weather or maybe because I woke up 24 hours before.
The conference starts and today is the tutorials-day…it’s a good chanche to finish my demo for wednesday

Stay tuned!

This afternoon, Emanuele and I have built the demo for the agile testing days.
Our idea is that to completely (more or less) reproduce the build environment that the team uses all days in our projects. The tasks that we have scheduled are:

- automatic assemblies versioning
- integrating database changes
- build
- running unit tests
- running integration tests
- deploying
- code metrics (and more over) with source monitor, fxcop and simian

The time available is not so much, and we have tried to choose must useful tasks (for us, obviously)
Any other ideas? Suggestions? Tasks that do you want to investigate?