Agile Testing
Liz! asked a question. She and her team are starting agile and she can't get much info on where QA fits into to Agile.
First, I want to reiterate Jeff Sutherland's concern, that he biggest problem is that too many teams are not getting to working product (working software) within a Sprint (a 1 to 4 week consistent timebox).
In my view, the absolute minimum Definition of Done for a typical software...
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Ahem. Actually that's a bit of an exaggeration. I have to be honest with you. Agile software development probably doesn't really save lives. There, you heard it from me first. I...
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I have recently been asked by a tester how agile testing compares to the various test phases in more traditional, waterfall development projects.
For instance, after the code has...
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This is a guest blog post from Ray Claridge, who writes a really interesting blog about agile testing caled Tester Troubles.Over to Ray...Moving into agile software development can...
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For years, I've given Software Testers in my teams the official job title of Test Analyst, or something along those lines.
Yet (informally) I've always referred to them as Testers.
Only...
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In my opinion, the most challenging role to adapt to agile development is the role of Tester.
That's because agile development contradicts so many things that many Testers have been...
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One of the key principles of agile development, and particularly Scrum, is the concept of "One Team".
The Scrum team should include all key roles for the product, wherever they report...
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I recently described User Stories and the composition of a User Story Card - Card, Conversation and Confirmation.
I'm not really sure if you would consider this user story example...
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In the more traditional world of managing software development projects, it is widely acknowledged that developers can’t test for toffee!
Yet agile development methods increasingly...
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In my experience, some people implement agile principles within the development team itself, but leave other key roles (for instance business users or testers) out of, or on the fringes,...
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XP (eXtreme Programming) advocates Test Driven Development, where test cases are written before the code. Radical, huh?
If you think about it, it makes complete sense. Assuming you...
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