About the Author

Lisa Crispin has more than ten years' experience in testing and quality assurance and is currently quality assurance manager for KBkids.com LLC (http://www.kbtoys.com and http://www.etoys.com). She has been working on Extreme Programming teams since July 2000. Her article "Extreme Rules of the Road: How an XP Tester Can Steer a Project Toward Success" appeared in the July 2000 issue of STQE Magazine. Her presentation "The Need for Speed: Automating Acceptance Tests in an Extreme Programming Environment" won Best Presentation at Quality Week Europe in 2000. She is cowriting a book, Testing for Extreme Programming, which will be published by Addison-Wesley in October 2002. Her presentations and seminars in 2001 included XP Days in Zurich, Switzerland; XP Universe in Raleigh, North Carolina; and STAR West. Lisa can be contacted at [e-mail].