A task board is a physical or virtual chart containing all current team tasks at hand and their progress over time. For an agile team, all sprint tasks can be represented on the task board, and their flow over various stages can be tracked in the daily standup meeting. Task boards are a great way to visually represent pieces of work and their status.
Continue readingTester’s Diary: Getting Ahead With Post-Release Testing
Back in January, I wrote about how we determined the minimal amount of testing required to meet our release date for a struggling project. But what could we do to make sure we don’t fall into the same trap for our next release?
Continue readingThe On-Demand Test Environment
An on-demand test environment can solve a lot of problems. This might be a web server, possibly with a test database, just for the tester. In the case of a mobile app, it might mean pushing a new build onto a phone, but it is more likely to mean testing against a build with the latest microservice.
Continue readingAI in Testing: The Future is Here
People are talking about how AI is coming and how it will change everything around how we interact with and test software. They might be missing something important, like how AI is already impacting our lives and our work.
Continue readingMoving from Manual to Automated Tests
Many organizations want the benefits of automated testing. They believe that the “next step” in testing is to build automated versions of what they manually run. This seems logical, but is it going to give them the improvements they want or need?
Continue readingMeet the Author: Johanna Rothman
Meet Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager.” She provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see problems and resolve risks and manage their product development. Johanna is the author of fourteen books and numerous articles for the Gurock Quality Hub.
Continue readingDoes Blockchain Make Sense for Me?
Blockchain technology is one of the most popular new topics in technology circles today. A blockchain solution can offer transparency, security, fault tolerance, auditability and, in some cases, reduced operational costs. It seems that everyone wants to roll out a new blockchain offering. But in spite of the attractive benefits, does it really make sense for your organization?
Continue readingPractical Test Coverage
A solid grasp of the different automated test types is critical to help you keep your overall test automation suite lean, low-maintenance, and high-value. While there are many types of automated tests, let’s focus on these three: Unit Tests, Integration/Service/API tests, and Functional/UI tests.
Continue readingCo-opetition Among Agile Teammates
The transition from individual responsibility to collective ownership is often the hardest part of the cultural shift that teams face when adopting agile. Let’s look at ways to encourage healthy competition, more cooperation, and a sense of community among agile teammates.
Continue readingThe Value of Distributed Tracing in Performance Testing
Distributed tracing has the potential to take application monitoring and performance testing to new, unimagined levels. Seeing everything across the entire landscape of application activity, static and ephemeral, is a game-changer.
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