In the Huddle round-up of the latest software testing blogs and QA highlights this week we feature posts on skills; soft skills, technical skills and interview skills, adopting Agile and more.
How does a multi-billion dollar company adopt agile? – Rose Manjarres
How does a large organisation transition to Agile? In this post Rose shares how her company achieved it from forming Scrum teams for the transition to providing Agile training at every level in the organisation.
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How to help agile teams avoid fatigue and burnout – Todd Hager & Eric Protzman
Adapting Agile is not a straight-forward process. Sometimes it can lead to teams struggling with the process and can lead to fatigue. So how do you avoid this? This post looks at some of the suggestions to counter situations where burnout might develop.
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What Soft Skills Does A Test Engineer Need – Tassawer Amin
We are all aware of the technical skills that a test engineer requires for their role but what about the soft skills? Do testers need to brush up on communication, organisational skills or something else? In this post, Tassawer discusses some of those essential skills.
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Do you see what I see? – Nicola Owen
Presenting the information gathered from testing to make informed decisions is always beneficial. But what is valuable information? Nicola shares what she believes is a good way to present important information from testing.
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Is Crowdsourcing Good For Quality Assurance? – Sanjay Zalavadia
Some organisation turn to crowd sourcing or external outfits for their Quality Assurance but is this a good thing? What does the increase in crowdsourced testing mean for the Testing Industry?
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You Shouldn’t be a Tester If … – James Thomas
Speaking of software testing skills, what are the skills that you may not have that you should be thinking about if you want to become a software tester. Here James takes a wry look at some of those common lists of skills for a software tester.
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What I Learned On Workshop Brighton TestBash 2017 Day – Karlo Smid
Karlo attended Test Bash in Brighton recently. Here he shares some of his takeaways from workshops with Michael Bolton and Alessandra Moreira and the keynote by Kevin Harris.
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How do you interview testers? – Alan Richardson
Alan reveals why looking for someone new in his company is based more on the person than on a specific role and how recruitment cant be boiled down to just a number of questions.
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