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,...
I’m a tester who works in a development team room. On our team, developers write unit and integration tests, and all other test activities fall to the testeror at least, that was true until this week. From now until the next release, management has ...
When you start something new, there’s always kind of a make or break period. A good first impression can win a convert for life. Conversely, a bad first impression can win a critic for life. This is true for just about any pursuit. But it’s ...
You’ll find Penetration Testing, often just called Pen Testing, explained differently, depending on where you get your input. Most sources agree that Pen Testing is essentially an ethical hacker carrying out attacks, like a malicious attacker, to help...
By all accounts, the Top Gun academy was pretty successful. By 1973 the pilot kill ratio had gone from 1:1 to 1:12 in the US favour. To put it another way, each U.S. pilot downed around 12-13 enemy planes for each plane they lost. Over the course of time, t...
One of my first concerns when I got into testing was moving from a junior, the lowest person in the organizational chart, up to a lead. Leads always seemed so cool to me. They were respected, people came to them with important questions, they had responsibi...
So, what is this BDD testing stuff, anyway? Before I answer that (as it turns out, nonsensical) question, I’ll speak briefly about the sometimes-frantic world of software development trends. It seems that, methodologically, software development reinv...
BDD is hugely helpful, given the right tools and the right process. The overarching aim is simple but powerful. First you express what you want the system to do in natural language, so that everyone understands. Then you match that behavior to automated t...
Agile approaches build in double-loop learning for everything: the product backlog, the team’s process, and the product itself. We have alternatives to one retrospective at the end of two weeks. Instead, we can use continual feedback from and to the p...
It doesn’t take long for teams to learn just enough about behavior-driven development (BDD) to be excited. I used to sit for a couple hours with business analysis, developers, product owners, testers, and even managers, showing them the fundamentals o...
I worked at a start-up for three years (from 2013 through to 2016) building software as a remote developer. Working with the team from the comfort of my home, we were able to frequently ship production software to a Fortune 200 customer.Every day, we pair-p...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is exploding. According to a report published by IHS, the IoT space is expected to grow by a factor of 5 over the next 10 years. The rate of growth is reminiscent of the early days of the Internet. There are a number of reasons ...
Problems with and defects in software that you release is the scourge of the software industry. It’s also the raison d’etre of testing and quality assurance groups. But it’s not the only way that bugs rear their ugly heads.They also come i...