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Test Management in Agile: What is Agile Test Management?

This paper highlights the effects and challenges of moving to agile in software testing. It starts with a brief explanation of all Software Development Lifecycle's (SDLC's) and what is involved…
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Is Agile the Right Software Development Life Cycle Model for Me?

The days of waterfall development's dominance are long gone as a number of alternatives have sprung up to challenge its reign. Today programmers and quality assurance professionals have a wider…
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Testing Done in the Scrum Sprint – The Tester in the Agile scrum testing process

If you are working in scrum and you don't know what you need to do, then this is the right article for you. Here I will share my experiences and hopefully…
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How is Testing Different in a DevOps Agile Team. A Perspective from the Team.

Rob Lambert

In this webinar, some of the test team at NewVoiceMedia discussed how testing has changed for them and why working in an agile team is positive for a tester. The…
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Loose Requirements in Agile: Sinking An Agile Project

No, that’s not just a creative simile. It’s what happened to the Vasa, a 17th Century warship; the largest of its kind ever to be built. The ship was commissioned…
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Stories about Distributed Development – Part 2

Introduction In part 1 of this article we looked at the challenges caused by geographical distribution of teams and team members. In this second part we will look into the…
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Distributed Agile – Stories about Distributed Development – Part 1

Introduction Today outsourcing, offshoring and working in globally distributed teams are common for an ever-growing number of people in software development. Even though this trend is not new, the ever-increasing…
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Don’t Eat The Customers Food

Imagine that you are sat down in a restaurant waiting for your meal to be served. Now imagine that the chefs bring your meal out to your table & proceed…
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Agile Webinar Series – Catch up on-demand!

Last week we hosted 4 webinars with agile experts Bob Galen, Fran O'Hara & Jan Jaap Cannegieter. On Monday, Bob Galen presented on 'A Testers Guide to Collaborating with Product…
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Improve your Flexibility by Mastering Different ways of Testing

Jan Jaap Cannegieter

Get a copy of these slides here. Agile asks for more flexibility when it comes to ways of testing. A lot of testers master one or maybe two ways of…
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Continuous Performance Testing with NeoLoad

Henrik Rexed

Are you trying to do load and performance testing in an Agile environment but find yourself asking, “Am I actually doing this right?” Or maybe you have a number of…
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Lessons learnt Integrating Test into the Agile Lifecycle

Fran O’Hara

Get a copy of these slides here. Despite extensive uptake in Agile and more recently Lean approaches, many teams and organisations still struggle to achieve a required level of software…
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A Testers Guide To Collaborating With Product Owners

Bob Galen

In Scrum the Product Owner is relatively starkly defined. They are the owner of the Product Backlog and represent the “customer”. In many organizations, they “go it alone”, trying their…
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Is TDD Dead? Part 2: Where do We Go Next with TDD?

This is the second part of a two-part blog that reviews a recent Google Hang-Out between Kent Beck, Martin Fowler and David Heinemeier Hansson regarding Test-Driven Development (TDD). Read Part…
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Is TDD Dead? Challenging the TDD Model

Currently, there is no universal solution for IT projects that take far too long, to deliver far little value, for far too much money. This triangulation of time, function and…
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The Role of a Tester in Agile Enterprise

Malcolm Isaacs

In a classical Agile team, testers and developers work together in Feature teams to produce functioning software at each sprint. Sounds simple, right? But as enterprises scale up their Agile…
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Speed Up Software Delivery with Agile

Agile development methods can help organizations speed up their software production cycles while maintaining strict quality assurance guidelines. The software development market has never been as competitive as it is today. More organizations are throwing their…
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The Real Agile Testing Quadrants

Michael Bolton

Over the last several years, a set of ideas and activities have been dumped into a steamer trunk called Agile software development. Agile development has hit mainstream recognition, even though…
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Speed up software delivery with agile

Agile development methods can help organizations speed up their software production cycles while maintaining strict quality assurance guidelines. The software development market has never been as competitive as it is…
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Slow Down to Speed Up – Leveraging Quality to Enable Productivity and Speed

Fran O'Hara

Despite extensive uptake in Agile and more recently Lean approaches, many teams and organisations still struggle to achieve a required level of software quality. To maintain sustained productivity and speed…
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The 3 Pillars Approach to Agile Testing Strategy

Bob Galen & Mary Thorn

Far too often agile adoptions focus just on the development teams, agile frameworks, or technical practices as a part of their adoption strategies. And then there’s the near perpetual focus…
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The Three Pillars of Agile Quality & Testing

Bob Galen & Mary Thorn

Mary Thorn and Bob Galen are working on a new agile testing book to be published in Q4 2014 – Q1 2015. It will focus on a framework for guiding…
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Testing in Scrum – A Guide for Software Quality Assurance in the Agile World

Tilo Linz

These days, the software development for more and more projects is being carried out using agile methods, such as Scrum, XP or other agile methods. Even in large-scale projects and…
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Integrate Test Activities in Agile

Rik Marselis

In traditional testing a tester spreads the testing activities over various phases. To be able to effectively test in Agile projects the test activities should be properly integrated in the…
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Agile testing innovations in a distributed world

Increased transparency and the need to drive quantitative business outcomes with a “right the first time” expectation are key drivers for the transition to agile methodologies. This transition demands a…
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Agile testing in distributed teams

This is the story of two QA Managers, Laura and Milo, working in a typical onsite-offshore outsourcing IT practice. While Laura hails from Spain and works in Oslo, Milo is…
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An Agile update to requirements documentation and testing

Times are always changing in the IT industry and newer work methods like Agile were a wind of change that swept away dusty old practices in the way development and…
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Keys for Transitioning from Traditional to Agile Testing

Bob Galen

It can be difficult to know know what solid testing is all about within agile teams. What traditional practices are fine to continue, which ones need modification, and what totally…
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The Mindset Change for an Agile Tester

Janet Gregory

On traditional projects, testers tend to join the project after coding has started, or sometimes almost finished. Testers and programmers may not communicate except through the defect tracking system. On…
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9 Characteristics of Agile Methodologies to Turbo-charge Your Testing

Rex Black

Discover characteristics of Agile Methodologies to turbo charge your testing in this webinar. Every life cycle affects testing, and Agile is no exception. A number of elements of the Agile…
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NIMBLE: The Best Agile Method Since Sliced Bread

John Watkins

There seems to be a serious temptation for testing practitioners to spend far too much of their (already precious) time re-inventing and re-labeling testing methods and processes. Often this can…
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Acceptance Testing in Agile – What Does it Mean to You?

Fran O’Hara

With sequential lifecycles like the V-model, the main interpretation of 'Acceptance' is usually User Acceptance Testing. In the more iterative/incremental approach of Agile, the word 'acceptance' has a different meaning.…
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What Agile Teams Can Learn From World of Warcraft

Alexandra Schladebeck

World of Warcraft and agile teams have many parallels in terms of role distribution, team-building, task management and communication. This talk starts by looking at concepts from WoW with direct…
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Test script-free validation in a regulated environment: Kanban Style

Andy Glover

Software development and testing practices have gone through a revolution since Agile came into the scene. Buzz words such as scrum, user stories, Kanban, lean and test driven development are…
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Test Improvement for Agile

Jeroen Mengerink

When we want to improve our testing, we need to question testing. But what are the right questions to ask in an Agile context? Current TPI models have proven to…
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Test Strategies in Agile Projects

Anders Claesson

Agile development methods are becoming more and more common in our projects. The objective is to achieve higher quality and shorter lead times with minimal overhead. A well defined agile…
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Integrate Test Activities in Agile Projects

Leo van der Aalst & Rik Marselis

In traditional testing a tester distinguishes various phases. To be able to effectively test in Agile projects the test activities should be properly integrated in an Agile approach. This eBook…
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Agile Testing – How to Succeed in an Extreme Test Environment

John Watkins

This eBook, edited specifically for the EuroSTAR Software Testing Community, provides a series of extracts from my successful book on "Agile Testing" published by Cambridge University Press. Based on more…
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A Lucky Shot at Agile

Zeger Van Hese

This paper describes life as a tester in a team of agile rookies: the context - a major healthcare IT company - and what agile did and didn't do for…
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Agile Test Management

Bob Galen

Much of the focus with testing in an agile environment has been on practices/techniques and tools but what about Test Management? Test Managers want to know what happens to their…
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Agile Testing + Product Owners – Leading Agile Teams Towards Results

Bob Galen

There is a powerful partnership that is created within mature agile teams that helps lead them towards success. No, the developers are not part of it. Not that they aren't…
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Agile Testing Facing the Challenges in Test Management… Common Anti-patterns

Bob Galen

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, agile testing is hard! First you have to get over the misconception that you don't need testers within agile teams. Then you have to…
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A Lucky Shot at Agile?

Zeger Van Hese

This is not another agile fairytale. I happened to be a tester in a scrum team that started its first sprint almost two years ago. We were all agile novices,…
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Becoming Agile – Reshaping Testing for an Agile Team

James Lyndsay

The key points covered in this webinar are: Agile projects are characterised by massive confirmatory unit and acceptance tests - testing strategies need to adapt. Agile teams are characterised by…
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Agile Testing

Fran O’Hara

Key Takeaways: Agile test overview Different Test Phases, agile terminology Where the different types of testing fit into an agile development lifecycle Role of the tester and how it is…
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An Introduction to Testing on Agile Teams – The Practices & Beyond

Antony Marcano

Key Takeaways: What is it that makes a team 'Agile'? - Practices such as Test Driven Development are a reflection of underlying values and goals. It's the adoption of these…
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