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,...
The TestRail team is having a blast at the Atlassian Summit! And we want to make sure the fun and networking continues after the Expo Hall closes at around 8pm tonight.If you’re still around after that, consider walking over to our after party where y...
I’d been testing at my current company for over 5 years before I met a tester from another team. When I started at the company I now work for, I had no idea there were other software teams as part of our business. I only knew about my team, and how we...
Testers don’t just test software. They perform many other activities aside from testing that, while equally important, tend to be forgotten about by managers and leaders. So, let’s break it down. When testers aren’t testing, what are they ...
In case you weren’t already aware, everyone who’s anyone uses JIRA to manage their software development processes. Sure, if you take a walk around the shop floor of your engineering department, you’ll no-doubt see the odd Kanban board with...
When I look up the definition of DevOps on Google, I see references to collaboration. Developers, product people, and operations all working together to make the best software they can. That sounds a lot like every other “modern development methodR...
In partnership with the renowned Ministry of Testing, we present to you 30 Days of Software Testing! What do you need to do? Simply check off as many of the challenges below as you can, and broadcast your progress along with the rest of the Software Testing...
Prego had an advertising campaign for spaghetti sauce in the 80s and 90s. In the commercial, someone is stirring a pot of sauce and another person walks up and asks “what about garlic, what about onions, what about tomatoes”? The answer was alwa...
In a previous diary, I spoke a little bit about how testing looked before I moved into the development team room. Throw it over the wall was a pretty accurate description. A product spent months in development, sometimes over a year. Then, when it was get...
Despite all effort to move quality upstream, most organizations I work with have a regression testing process. This process is expensive and slow, so they do it less often; batching’ a large number of changes into a sprint, a release, or a project. ...
Katrina Clokie leads a team of around 100 testers as a Test Practice Manager in Wellington, New Zealand. Katrina is an active contributor to the international testing community as the founder and editor of Testing Trapeze magazine, a co-founder of the WeTes...
Most of the software projects I have worked on come along with either a specification or a set of acceptance criteria. To the product owner, this is a list of what to build. To me, it also looks like a list of test ideas. A tester can take each point in the...
After working a tester for a couple of years, I asked myself the question “Where do I go from here”?I suspect I’m not the only person who has asked themselves that. Particularly in testing, where people move in and out all the time. A pers...