Category Archives: Thought Leadership
QA’s and Unit Testing – Can QA Create Effective Unit Tests
Unit testing is typically software testing within the developer domain. As the QA role expands in DevOps, QAOps, DesignOps, or within an Agile team, QA testers often find themselves creating unit tests.
December 14, 2022
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Fault-Based Testing and the Pesticide Paradox
In some sense, testing can be more difficult than coding, as validating the efficiency of the test cases (i.e., the ‘goodness’ of your tests) can be much harder than validating code correctness. In practice, the tests are just executed without any validation beyond the pass/fail verdict.
December 14, 2022
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What Agile Testing (Actually) Is
So, now that the first installment of this two fold article has been published (hence you might have an idea of what Agile Testing is not in my opinion), I’ve started feeling the pressure to explain what Agile Testing actually means to me.
December 13, 2022
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Continuous delivery and continuous deployment offer testers opportunities for growth
Development practices are constantly changing and as testers, we need to embrace change. One of the changes that we can experience is the move from monthly or quarterly releases to continuous delivery or continuous deployment. This move to continuous delivery or deployment offers testers the chance to learn new skills.
December 13, 2022
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QA Innovation – Using the senseshaping concept to discover customer needs
QA testers have a unique role and responsibility to serve the customer. Serving the customer in software testing means protecting customers from application defects, failures, and perceived failures from missing or misunderstood requirements.
December 9, 2022
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Digital transformation – part 1 – basics
What is digital transformation? Digital transformation is using technology to create new or modify existing business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet changing business and market requirements.
December 9, 2022
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Rethinking Software Testing Metrics: An In-Depth Analysis
There is just one area where each member of the software testing community has a distinct point of view! Metrics! This contentious issue sparks intense disputes, and most conversations finish with no definitive conclusion.
December 8, 2022
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Test strategy and how to communicate it
I routinely come across test strategy documents when working with customers. They are lengthy—100 pages or more—and packed with monotonous text that is routinely reused from one project to another.
December 6, 2022
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Keeping Quality Transparency Throughout the organization
In general, software testers have a challenging job. Software testing is frequently the final significant activity undertaken prior to actually delivering a product.
December 5, 2022
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Continuous Integration explained with jenkins deployment
Continuous integration is a coding philosophy and set of practices that encourage development teams to make small code changes and check them into a version control repository regularly.
November 29, 2022
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