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,...
How can you help your organization test your software better? Static Analysis tools are a critical part of any team’s overall efforts to build and maintain great software. This article focuses on static analysis tools themselves, and how to implement ...
Agile approaches depend on pervasive testing. However, many senior managers think they can eliminate the entire testing department. Learn how to make your role as a test manager even more relevant in an agile organization. Looking at the data to assess the ...
Salesforce.com is eliminating the testing role in parts of its organization. Yahoo did the same thing a few years ago. These organizations are taking the stance that testing is something anyone can do close to the development role. Some organizations will b...
Test automation, especially at the User Interface (UI) or end-to-end level, can be a huge hit to a team’s productivity, effectiveness, and morale. It doesn’t have to be this way! A few simple concepts, applied with careful thought and discipline...
Acceptance criteria are supposed to represent the value a customer needs for the software change to be useful. Product managers use acceptance criteria as a way to communicate ideas that will be translated into software, developers use them to implement the...
I’m learning that it’s entirely different to attend a meeting in a leader capacity. The meetings are challenging to sit through. Unlike most meetings I’ve attended before, all stakeholders are included. This means representatives from deve...
Ephemeral computing is the practice of creating a virtual computing environment as a need arises and then destroying that environment when the need is met, and the resources are no longer in demand. You pay only for what’s used, when it’s used. ...
The agile methodology focuses on building in quality from the beginning of the software lifecycle. That is why we aim to find and fix defects early on: A defect fixed in an earlier lifecycle phase is a multitude cheaper than the same defect at a later stage...
Blockchain technology allows multiple people or devices that don’t trust one another to share trusted data. The way blockchain works makes it nearly impossible for a malicious party to tamper with the data without being caught, so it has been called u...
I was working on a pretty tough project early in my career. Our tester-to-developer ratio was completely inappropriate for how we were developing software, especially right before we wanted to put out new software. We had three options: recruit and hire an ...
Idera, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Travis CI, a market leader in continuous integration. Travis CI will join TestRail in Idera, Inc.’s Testing Tools division, which also includes Ranorex and Kiuwan.Idera, Inc., parent company of global B2B s...
Understanding the health of the software’s codebase can help you better focus your testing efforts. Static analysis metrics can help testers focus in on areas of the codebase to invest extra attention. There are a great many metrics available for meas...