An Agile tester’s work life is intriguing, busy and challenging. Let’s sneak a peek into an agile tester’s typical day: filled with varied activities like design discussions, test planning, strategizing for upcoming sprints, collaborating with developers on current user stories, peer reviewing for team mates, test execution, working with BAs for requirement analysis and planning automation strategies.
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While the test-driven development (TDD) cycle is simple — write a test, get it to pass, refactor — developers have found numerous ways to tweak the programming technique. In other words, no one true way to practice TDD exists. That means your oddball approach to TDD is probably OK, but it also means you can find a lot to learn from exploring some of these TDD “alternatives.”
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Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming Paul Gerrard to our series of illustrious webinar guests! Paul talked about what a Test Strategy is, and what it isn’t. Who it’s for, and who it’s not. How to design one and, most importantly, how to deliver it without getting punched in the face!
If you didn’t manage to get along to the webinar, you can find the video here.
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One of my goals for this year is to establish a curriculum to help my team learn more about security testing. We’re developing our first cloud-hosted solution, and there are many elements of browser-based security testing that we’ve never experienced. Here is my story about working with the lead security developer to create a security curriculum for testers.
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Nothing I have done while testing actually changed the product quality. What I did do was learn some important things and share them with other people. Testing doesn’t affect product quality, but testers do. Here are seven things testers do to make a contribution to quality.
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You’re interested in hiring for an existing agile team tell me, if you can: What’s core to the culture of that team- what do they hold near and dear about how they work? Which one technical element is a must-have if there are any? If you can’t answer these questions succinctly, you’re jumping the gun with your hiring. Here are three job requirements essentials, and three important aspects about hiring to consider before you draft a job requisition for an agile team.
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It takes time and firsthand experience for TDD to get under people’s skin to the point where they enjoy scratching out a test and regret when they cannot. Twenty years ago, we called this becoming “test-infected.” Some have advanced to the mastery level of TDD, where they understand the occasional times when they can produce code confidently without it. But I warrant that all of these test-infected would say that they would never give up the practice.
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There’s a lot of different approaches to automated testing and unit testing. This article will cover those approaches at a high level and call out the differences and distinctions. After reading this article, you will understand what unit testing is about; know about TDD and BDD, understanding their place in the software development landscape and how they relate to each other; and learn about the tools and sources of information at your disposal.
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You can’t always be a professional software organization without functional testing. that doesn’t mean it’s the only kind of testing you need to do. In fact, you should be doing a lot of other different kinds of testing if you want to have confidence that you’re shipping an excellent product. Lets examine some other types of testing you should do.
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Software organizations tend to operate on a definition of done. Each instance of ‘done’ usually means one specialty in the development group is ready to hand off a piece of work to another specialty. I have been working in an extreme programming shop for the past few months, and there are no handoffs; done means ready to ship to production. So, how do we know we are done when there are no pauses in the flow?
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