You get handed an assignment of strategic significance to the organization. You have never worked on this application before and the only information you have is what this change will do.
Continue readingTesting Big Data Applications
Testing big data applications is equally focused on evaluating and validating the data, the performance of the software, and the quality of the output that the software produces. Big data applications involve not only vast amounts of data but also analyzing that data in the most efficient manner.
Continue readingWhat Is the Future for Agile Test Management?
In an agile organization, where managers facilitate teams, is there really a role for the test manager? Or the dev manager? Maybe not. I’ll offer three ideas for what you can do in a real agile organization.
Continue readingThree Metrics Your Agile Team Should Stop Using
Metrics are supposed to help and support an agile team by providing useful information about the health and progress of their project. But not all metrics are always beneficial. Going overboard with them can sometimes cause more harm than good.
Continue readingThree Uncommon Metrics Your Agile Team Should Be Tracking
There are a few common metrics we use in agile teams: sprint burndown charts, release burnup charts, team velocity. They’re common because they communicate practical information, but they’re not the only metrics we can employ. Here are three metrics you can easily create that will be very useful for your agile team.
Continue readingImproving Software Test Processes: Lessons From the Trenches
Test managers, leads, and practitioners often turn to the process of testing itself to gain these improvements. Even when testing is “good,” the question becomes, “Is it good enough?” Is that the right question?
Continue readingBug Priorities: 5 Tips for Balancing the Urgent and the Important
As the test lead on our flagship product, I live in the backlog, and I breathe these bugs. A normal release for us fixes roughly 20 bugs that are unrelated to new work. With a backlog of about 200 bugs to choose from, I had to learn how to prioritize bugs and select the “right” ones for releases.
Continue readingWhere Have All the Testers Gone?
I recently had the pleasure of running my tutorial, how to lead continuous delivery with Testing, at Agile Testing Days. With twenty-two students, the tutorial was well attended. What surprised me was the demographics.
Continue readingMetrics: The Ugly, The Bad and Finding What Works for You
Metrics and measurements are all around us. They inform and are tracked in every part of our lives, from our commute to work to how people perceive the economy is behaving. When used properly they are a great help to our understanding of nearly everything. Why then, do people working in software struggle with measurements?
Continue readingDeveloper-Tester Collaboration: How and Why
Your agile team might think that the developers collaborate with developers and testers collaborate with testers. However, the more the various people collaborate across specialty, the better the product can be. And, they might be able to finish the work faster.
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