Gartner in its report on ‘10 Things CIOs Need to Know About Agile Development’ states that in the current digital transformation environment CIOs are pressurized to support fast-evolving digital enterprises. However, they find traditional project and development methods ineffective. It has been observed over a period that all old [...]
With the tremendous growth in agile methodology, guidelines for test automation are specifically significant. While it is important to use effective techniques that yield in a high return on investment (ROI), such approach works only once one is aware of the numerous techniques available. Being mindful of various guidelines [...]
While automating the testing process, there is a certain amount of collaborative effort required from everyone in the agile team. This is an important prerequisite to successful automation of the testing process. QA engineers need to keep a track on any task that has a repetition of more than [...]
Test Driven Development (TDD) is a testing methodology that helps achieve Speed and Quality with its specifically structured mechanisms. In 2015 we published a blog post on 7 Best Practices for Agile Test Driven Development (TDD). The blog post was hugely appreciated, liked and shared and got over 80,000 [...]
A popularly used idiom states, ‘Being an early bird is better than being a night owl’. This might not click literally, but, the idea is that in today’s competent software development scenario it is considered beneficial to plan testing along with the process of development. ‘Start testing early’ is [...]
In today’s business world, alignment of IT systems to an organization’s business goals is much needed to stay ahead of the competition. If the IT systems were built a long time back, they would be inflexible and difficult to use, due to their limited abilities, for today’s business needs. [...]
‘Deliver Quality at Speed’ is the success mantra in the current highly-competitive digital business world. The traditional approaches for software development divide development and testing into two different steps – developers build a feature and then QA team tests it for defects. As the product grows, the testing time [...]
Today, when developers are using tools like J unit/N unit for testing their code, approaches such as test driven development (TDD) and behaviour driven development (BDD) focus on improving the quality of the code that is being written. Though the approaches require a different mind-set, the objective remains the [...]
Some of the common complaints about exploratory testing are that it needs subject matter expertise, it is not structured and it cannot be measured. But the fact is that exploratory testing is self-managed and self-structured. Exploratory testing is not a technique but an approach of exploring software without following [...]
Continuing from where we left off in Practical Approach for Improving Agile Testing Maturity – Part 1, let us deep dive into the remaining critical factors for improving an organizations’ agile testing maturity. As explained, the 5 steps to improve your agile test maturity are: Discover and Document Analyze and Benchmark Develop [...]
