Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams

Review of Section 7: Implement Customer Testing

THE OSPACS TEAM quickly embraced the idea of customer testing because it seemed to benefit everyone. Developers would get concrete examples of what the customer wanted in terms of executable tests, and assurance that once these tests passed, the story would be judged complete. Customers would get the features they wanted and the ability to track the team’s progress in delivering them. Therefore, they took the following actions to implement customer testing:

• Created a skeletal test document—In order to keep all of the customer tests together, the team created a Microsoft Word document and added it to Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC). The customer (Sally) was given “full” access rights to ...