My challenge is taking client who can barely release twice a year, with manual testing, and getting them on the path to daily builds, let alone this level of control over ones environment.
It gives me an insight into how it must have felt being proud spear wielding warriors seeing "Gatling" stenciled on the side of a large wooden box.
Those were good posts, what ever happened to them? It seems like some of the Google Testing guys just moved on all of a sudden. Misko Hevery used to have some great posts/videos as well.
What I like about agile and its fellows is that it takes old ideas and turns them into one-click tools.
My theory of software development process is that tools are the dominant shaping force.
Waterfall was a fit for the word processing era. Build a big document, hand it off. Changing the document is a pain, so write it once in advance. And so on.
The advent of bug tracking tools showed how individual work packets could be packaged, sliced and dealt with individually.
Similarly, this tool revisits the ideas of traceability (previously achieved with spreadsheets, basically) and change matrices / change ripples. Because it's automated, it actually becomes part of the process, rather than an impossible burden.
It gives me an insight into how it must have felt being proud spear wielding warriors seeing "Gatling" stenciled on the side of a large wooden box.