The agile QA (Quality Assurance) process is a set of practices and methodologies aimed at ensuring that software developed within an Agile framework meets the desired quality standards. It aligns with Agile development principles, emphasizing collaboration,...
Virtualized container use in software application development and deployment is increasing across nearly all industry verticals. Containers provide advantages of virtualization without draining computing resources. When used in the testing process, containe...
Does adding a new team member speed things up or slow things down? I think most people recognize that it does both. Initially, it slows things down: taking the time of whoever is responsible for the training. But as time goes on and the new team member beco...
When someone asks what testers should be automating, my general answer is Very little. Expecting someone who is not a programmer to take on a new software development project is foolish. However, wanting to augment your career with a new skill set is a g...
Bug reports and the triage process are waste. In every sense, but especially the Lean sense. What’s more valuable to your users and customers? High-quality software being used in production, or a bug database that’s filled with hundreds or thous...
When managers believe testing is a service- or worse, a shared service- the product suffers. That’s because software development, especially agile software development, is about how the team learns as a team. Instead of thinking of testers as providin...
Agile teams constantly face an overload of regression testing. As sprints progress and new features get built into the software, agile testers are faced with the challenge of testing all these new features while ensuring nothing from the previous sprints br...
Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency are often described as being secure at the core. But is this true? After seeing multiple security incidents with cryptocurrencies that resulted is large losses, is there really any such thing as a secure cryptocurren...
Earlier in the year, the test and development teams started work on a new project. We began testing after development had already started, so we had a large backlog of stories to test. This has been one of the hardest months I’ve ever had at this job....
Kubernetes is fast becoming the go-to open-source technology for container orchestration at the enterprise level. It not only allows IT departments to deploy containers at scale automatically, but also ensures that those containers will run reliably in a fa...
One of the goals we had for our test team this year was moving the entire team into the development team room. Our experience with sitting one tester with the development team was a success, and we wanted to build on that by bringing in the others. However,...
More and more testers want to add some performance testing capabilities to their repertoires. If you are fairly new to the concept and want to break into performance testing, start by actually thinking about product performance. If you have a passing intere...
A portfolio displays skill because it take skill to make one. Developers and designers usually have a personal portfolio they can reference when they want to hunt for a job. Developers have a GitHub repository, and designers will have a website and some des...