All About Agile | Agile Development Made Easy  How does QA fit
in?  by Joe Little, 27 September 2011 | Agile Testing   Liz!
asked a question.  She and her team are starting agile and she
can't get much info on where QA fits into to Agile. First, I
want to reiterate Jeff Sutherland's concern, that he biggest
problem is that too many teams are not getting to working
product (working software) within a Sprint (a 1 to 4 week
consistent timebox). In my view, the absolute minimum Definition
of Done for a typical software "story" or PBI (product backlog
item) is: * requirement defined * coded * unit tested *
functionally tested (aka acceptance tested) * all identified
bugs fixed * reviewed by the Product Owner, and all 'problems'
fixed This is the minimum definition, assuming one starts with
significant impediments.  The ideal definition includes live, in
production, being actively used by the customers with normal
volume. Now, let's add a key principle: The bad news does not
get better with age.  In other words, it