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,...
Today’s news feeds are ripe with fresh examples of ransomware victims. According to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigation Report, ransomware was the most common type of malware in attacks last year. We’ll describe what ransomware really...
An Agile tester’s work life is intriguing, busy and challenging. Let’s sneak a peek into an agile tester’s typical day: filled with varied activities like design discussions, test planning, strategizing for upcoming sprints, collaborating ...
While the test-driven development (TDD) cycle is simple write a test, get it to pass, refactor developers have found numerous ways to tweak the programming technique. In other words, no one true way to practice TDD exists. That means your oddball appr...
Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming Paul Gerrard to our series of illustrious webinar guests! Paul talked about what a Test Strategy is, and what it isn’t. Who it’s for, and who it’s not. How to design one and, most importantly, how...
One of my goals for this year is to establish a curriculum to help my team learn more about security testing. We’re developing our first cloud-hosted solution, and there are many elements of browser-based security testing that we’ve never experi...
Nothing I have done while testing actually changed the product quality. What I did do was learn some important things and share them with other people. Testing doesn’t affect product quality, but testers do. Here are seven things testers do to make a ...
You’re interested in hiring for an existing agile team tell me, if you can: What’s core to the culture of that team- what do they hold near and dear about how they work? Which one technical element is a must-have if there are any? If you canR...
It takes time and firsthand experience for TDD to get under people’s skin to the point where they enjoy scratching out a test and regret when they cannot. Twenty years ago, we called this becoming test-infected. Some have advanced to the mastery lev...
There’s a lot of different approaches to automated testing and unit testing. This article will cover those approaches at a high level and call out the differences and distinctions. After reading this article, you will understand what unit testing is ...
You can’t always be a professional software organization without functional testing. that doesn’t mean it’s the only kind of testing you need to do. In fact, you should be doing a lot of other different kinds of testing if you want to hav...
Software organizations tend to operate on a definition of done. Each instance of ‘done’ usually means one specialty in the development group is ready to hand off a piece of work to another specialty. I have been working in an extreme programming...
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