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Agile, General

Agile Tester as Servant Leader

Servant leaders help the entire team succeed regardless of the leader’s position. I like to think of servant leaders as optimizing for the entire team, not one person. Agile testers are uniquely positioned to be servant leaders, by coaching and helpin...

Agile, Continuous Delivery, General, Security

Secure Software Development in an Agile Environment

Many software developers view security as a non-functional requirement. The perception is that adding security features slows things down. As organizations move to agile software development, security too often gets left behind. However, it is possible to i...

Agile, General, Software Quality

Tester’s Diary: Designing Effective UX Testing

Just ahead of this year’s customer user seminar seminar, I got some exciting news from our development team. They planned to perform some user experience testing at the conference! I asked if I could join the planning discussion as they decided what o...

Agile, General, Programming, Software Quality

4 Properties of Highly Testable Code

Not all code is created equal. If you want to test code, then it should be testable. How do you recognize a highly testable code base? Or even better, how do you turn your code base into a highly testable state if it’s currently not? To answer these q...

Agile, General, Software Quality

What It Means to Be a Test Lead

I frequently see people thrust into a test lead role that haven’t had anytime to develop leadership skill and aren’t sure what their lead role even means. Leadership requires no title. The minute someone comes to you for help, you are a leader. ...

Agile, General, Software Quality

Making Do When You’re Understaffed for Testing

Are you feeling spread thin when it comes time to test your application? Is your team missing deadlines and pushing back releases to validate your product? This is a common feeling. Many organisation suffer from this problem and it manifests itself in many ...

Agile, General, Programming, Software Quality

The Only Coding Standard You’ll Ever Need

When someone says the phrase coding standard, usually the first thing that comes to our minds is formatting, but of course, coding standards can cover so many more things. We could debate these standards elements, and so many more, for hours on end. Somet...

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