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,...
Many agile teams use the words, “Fail Fast.” I don’t know of any managers who like failure of any sort. The problem is that agile “failure” means we learn early. Many kinds of tests can help a team learn early. Testers are key ...
My first experience with usability testing was on an agile team where the product we were building was being designed with the help of an in-house usability expert. Usability has matured a lot over the years. It’s now an essential software characteris...
Modern software testers need to be comfortable with code. The days of testers not being able to open up a code editor and understand software fundamentals are thankfully vanishing. As modern testers, we need to embrace a new challenge. This doesn’t me...
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Every company I have worked with in the past decade practiced Scrum, had sprints, and did retrospectives after each sprint to talk about what was learned and what we could improve upon. All the signals and rituals of agile were firmly in place. Despite all ...
I’ve never thought of myself as a leader. I don’t like telling people what to do. I don’t like feeling responsible for other people’s actions. I don’t like being put in a position where someone might treat my opinion like it ma...
Every year we see the software industry evolving at a rapid pace. This implies changes in the way testing is conducted within the software lifecycle, test processes, techniques and tools, and the tester’s skill set, too. I’ve been into agile for...
Companies large and small need comprehensive software security testing, but there is a lot of confusion about what that actually means. Furthermore, there are many types of security tests, how do you know what types of test should you run? Knowing when to c...
Ephemeral computing makes sense; the simple fact is that more companies want to maximize the expense of computing: Nobody wants to pay for computing power that goes unused. Ephemeral computing lets companies pay only for the computing power they need, exact...
Agile poses many challenges to the development team, most of them pertaining to time. Teams are perpetually under pressure to deliver working software at a fast pace, leaving minimum time for anything else. When testing on an agile project, learning how to ...
Being a test specialist in XP, or Extreme Programming, can be awkward, especially when working as the tester for a developer pair. I have heard some people describe this as being the third person in a handshake. Here is a list of specific things testers can...
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