Category Archives: Agile Testing

Topics or discussions for improving testing practices that are agreeable with Agile Principles

Augmenting Testing in your Agile Team: A Success Story

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Mike Hrycyk

One of the facts of life about Agile is that remote resources, when you have a mostly collocated team, generally end up feeling a little left out in the cold.  Yet, with appropriately leveraged tools, sufficient facilitation, management support and … Continue reading →

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Maximizing the Value of Test Automation

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Brad Thompson

High quality software delivered to market quickly has always been the goal of Agile teams. A common process teams use to achieve this goal is test automation. However, simply implementing test automation doesn’t always result in reaching this goal. Over … Continue reading →

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New Project? Shift-Left to Start Right!

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Trevor Atkins

Project management is continually challenged with delivering the “right” solution, on-time and on-budget, with high quality. In the face of typical project constraints and changing priorities, quality is sometimes sacrificed towards the end of the project for the sake of … Continue reading →

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Distributed Teams – An Interview with Janet Gregory

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Christin Wiedemann

I recently interviewed Janet Gregory on the topic of distributed teams. Janet is the founder of DragonFire Inc., an agile quality process consultancy and training firm. Janet co-wrote the original book on agile testing “Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for … Continue reading →

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Is Functional Assurance the new Quality Assurance?

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Brad Thompson

I have noticed a shift in how companies are attempting to ensure quality and this is what has led me to write this post. Companies desperately want to achieve quality by simply creating automated tests. Why do they want this? … Continue reading →

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Test Envisioning

Posted on February 28, 2016 by Adam Geras

Starting a project seems to be one of the most under-rated steps when it comes to describing critical success factors for projects. A project well-launched is like a well-designed set play that comes together on the field during a game. … Continue reading →

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Improving Software Quality with Development Tours

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Brad Thompson

Releasing software in the past was a QA’s dream, plenty of time to check every last corner of the product before eventually releasing to production.  With the move to Agile and the speed at which we need to deliver software, … Continue reading →

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Let’s Start a Test Revolution

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Christin Wiedemann

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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Finding Bugs Under Software Rocks – Exploratory Testing as a Bug Hunt

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Derrick Collins

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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Shorter Interval Projects Are Trending, But What Does That Mean For Testers?

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Michael Murphy

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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