Suri is our other tester??”she??™s very good at exploratory testing.??? He looked at the
third pair, who were talking intensely and sketching on the whiteboard. ???And it looks like Mark and
Allison over there are working on a larger design problem. We use incremental design and architecture,
so we??™re constantly looking for ways to improve our design.???
Allison looked up. ???Actually, I think this is something the whole group should see. Can we get
everyone??™s attention for a moment????
???Sure,??? said Jerry, pushing away from his desk. He glanced at his partner, who nodded. ???We needed a
break anyway.???
As Allison started sketching on the whiteboard, Pat thought about what he??™d seen. Brian was working
on planning. Jeff and Mary were working on requirements and tests??”no, examples. Kevin and Justin
were integrating, and had been testing, designing, and coding a few minutes earlier. Mark and Allison
were designing. And Jerry and Suri were doing more testing.
Except that it wasn??™t quite that simple. Everything seemed fluid; people kept changing what they were
working on. Jeff and Mary had gone backward, from requirements to planning, and all the programmers
had jumped from integration and testing to design.
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