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,...
Any line of code that hasn’t been exercised in a test is a potential risk. Thus, test practitioners use a metric called the code coverage percentage to determine how much of the code that’s been written has been exercised in testing. Many compan...
During the Winning at TestRail Reporting webinar, we promised to try and answer as many of your questions about reports as we could. Where possible, we did that during the webinar itself using the GoToWebinar console. But predictably, there were a great man...
With the project I started last year finally behind me and my new project not yet ready, I was able to take some time last week to work on my annual goals. I hoped to start by meeting with the product manager of my next project to discuss the basics of test...
Requirements written in the form of user stories help agile teams understand the need, business case and real user’s perspective. Most agile teams are perpetually crippled by incomplete, ambiguous and vague user stories which lack depth and details. L...
Agile transformation seems to be the buzzword these days. How can you be an agile leader, regardless of your position in the organization? (Yes, even as an individual tester.) By developing your agile mindset, finding allies, and earning and celebrating sma...
As promised during our live webinar, here’s the recording so you can re-watch it at your leisure. And if you weren’t able to join or even sign-up for the live webinar, here’s what you missed!
Modern development practices tend to be automation heavy. developers test drive and build unit tests, tests against the service, and then something against the UI. Through out the development cycle, people are exploring the change. How do we assess coverage...
I spent the first half of my career building software as an individual. Programming seemed a solo sport. I was content with sitting in a cube or office by myself, head down and focused on my problem. Today, it seems silly to view the average software develo...
Retrospectives are an integral part of every project we undertake, and described as a key ceremony in scrum lifecycle. Though agile teams may be doing retrospectives as a part of their project lifecycle, but there are a few common mistakes we may be making...
When people start to change their questions and measurements, they often change their culture. Agile approaches change the culture of the project and organization. Here is how testers can change the conversation from being a “support” part of th...
What do you do when you need to test the performance of an asynchronous application? What if the application is not easily observable in a standard input/output or request/response interaction? Performance testing asynchronous applications can be tricky, bu...
I consider my adoption of TDD to be perhaps the most influential moment in my career of writing code. The practice provides so many benefits. Recently, though, I’ve realized that these benefits don’t just apply to writing code. They apply to e...