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Tag Archives: agile
Accessibility Testing: Four Tips for Doing It Right
If you are feeling a little overwhelmed by the extra effort involved in delivering accessible software, don’t be dismayed. Here are some helpful tips to keep in mind. 1. Embed Accessibility Testing The purpose of the first round of guideline … Continue reading
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Tagged accessibility testing, agile, bug tracking, defect management, early testing, software testing, test management
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Let’s Start a Test Revolution
Before I started my career as a tester, I was a scientist doing research in particle physics, and my years in science trained me to be skeptical, inquisitive and open to new approaches. It was the idea of continuous learning … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, high performance teams, process improvement, risk driven, software testing
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Finding Bugs Under Software Rocks – Exploratory Testing as a Bug Hunt
One aspect of software testing is trying to find as many of the bugs in the software under test as possible and, in that sense, software testing can be viewed as a “Bug Hunt”. As a metric for evaluating the … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, prioritization, software testing
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Shorter Interval Projects Are Trending, But What Does That Mean For Testers?
I find it interesting that software development projects are generally being planned and executed with shorter time frames than before. Software development projects that were once taken on as a single large project are now being broken down into smaller … Continue reading
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Did Sesame Street Impact the Adoption of Agile Methodology?
History of Sesame Street The first episode of Sesame Street aired in November 1969. It was aimed at preschoolers and was based on any number of research studies. ‘It wanted to be an educational program due to the common thought … Continue reading
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Own Your Approach – Drive Process Improvement
You and your team have to live with the impact of poor internal quality every day, on every project. But fixing these issues or improving the situation is not often a top priority. “No one keeps track of the costs … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, people, process improvement, ROI, science & testing, software testing, survey
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Creating Success in a Distributed Agile Team
Agile development methodologies focus on highly collaborative team environments that are continuously planning, developing, testing, integrating and delivering functional software. In such environments, constant feedback and communication are critical and there are small margins for errors and delays. In the … Continue reading
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UAT as a Gateway to Enterprise Agile
Let’s admit it. Projects that deliver enterprise solutions have barriers to being agile, especially those that are based on purchased packages (commercial off-the-shelf packages, or COTS). In my experience I’ve wrestled with at least two of those – the technical … Continue reading
When To Get Serious About Testing
Some years back, I taught a course on software configuration management. In that course, we discussed the benefits and drawbacks to integrating change control within the software development process considering that the software is being actively developed or matured during … Continue reading
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Exploratory Testing on Agile Projects
Exploratory testing provides both flexibility and speed, characteristics that have become increasingly important with the quick pace of short agile iterations. But, how do you retain traceability without losing your creativity? The answer is xBTM – a combination of session-based … Continue reading
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