It's the software that matters!

James Shore, creator of NUnitASP and author of The Art of Agile Development has recently announced that he's no longer supporting NUnitASP development, citing his increasing lack of interest in it and pointing interested parties to Selenium or Watir (or perhaps WatiN, although that has received some criticism from Scott Bellware, others are not so sure).

It's a shame we're not getting more choices in this area of testing, but James is right to focus on his own current projects. He has left it open for someone else to take over the project, although the way ASP.NET MVC will expose HTTPRequest as an interface might make it superfluous.

Back to the point of this post. James has a great blog with some very thoughtful articles. I found this great quote in It's the Software, Stupid! It summarises for me the problem with simply implementing Scrum and thinking that makes you Agile.

“your team is expected to self-organize and define its own practices”

“It's time we brought back the early emphasis on great engineering practices. If you're using Scrum or another agile method that doesn't include engineering practices, realize that your method is incomplete. Scrum, for example, intentionally creates an environment in which your team is expected to self-organize and define its own practices. If you aren't doing that--if you aren't talking about engineering practices, what's working, what's not, and how to improve--you're going to run into trouble someday. Probably someday soon.”