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 was in a daily huddle for the testing group and the person who spoke before me said they were about to do some regression testing. We were in the middle of a sprint and they had found a bug in a new feature. They reported the bug and talked with the devel...
It’s a big, Agile world out there, filled with lots of advice about how Agile practices can help your company deliver more stuff, better and faster. As a tester, you might see those Agile practices as being great ideas, but be unable to get them imple...
Reviewing completed user stories before they get put in the test queue is a pretty normal part of my day. We look at the user story together with the completed work. I ask questions, some of these questions reveal missed acceptance criteria or plain old def...
I view software testing as an inherently creative act, and I’m excited and inspired by the challenge of finding ways to generate ideas repeatedly, reliably, and regardless of familiarity with the task at hand. I want to be creative when looking for no...
I first learned about quick attacks from Elisabeth Hendrickson’s Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet. The product we were working on back then was used by sales people to figure out the best way to price a product, such as a gallon of oil. Our clients would e...
Over the 15+ years Ben Kelly has been testing he has built and led teams in Australia, Japan and the UK at companies ranging from small start-ups to enterprise level multinational corporations, including heading up software testing for the European Product ...
Programming skills can be taught through repetition. Pick a programming language. Pick an exercise, for example, the bowling kata. Then, perform that exercise once a day for a few weeks, trying to get the code a little more concise, readable, and efficient ...
The metaphor most people think about for software projects, is one of driving results with pressure. If things are going poorly, get everyone in a room, yell at them a bit, and tell them to fix this schedule problem. I’m pretty sure that’s not t...
Making sure that our tool TestRail works great in all environments and that TestRail can easily be installed and maintained has a high priority for us. So today we are happy to announce the availability of TestRail 5.4, a new platform release that introduc...
If you’ve worked with testers or programmers, or are one yourself, you’ll likely have noticed that they spend a lot of time with their headphones on. I’m a tester and I have my headphones on right now! I’ll often listen to something ...
It seems like I’ve become known as the one who knows how to create bug reports’ around the Dev room. Today is the third time I’ve been asked how to create a bug report by a developer. However, this time the developer got a little more th...
Testers working in agile or scrum like to talk about the benefits of being involved in the development cycle earlier. They imagine smooth sprints with no last-minute regression testing, and burn down charts that gracefully approach zero instead of looking l...