Category Archives: Thought Leadership
Why is it important for agile teams to reduce technical debt?
Ward Cunningham, one of the creators of the Agile Manifesto, was the first to describe the concept of technical debt (Cunningham, 1992, OOPSLA conference).
September 1, 2022
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Alternative perspectives on the values of Agile
The Agile Manifesto contains twelve principles in addition to the four values that serve as guidelines for all methodologies associated with the Agile movement, including XP, Scrum, and Kanban. I want to examine each of them in this article and offer an alternative viewpoint that I have come to over the years.
August 31, 2022
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Barriers to Incorporating Automation in Agile Teams
As I’ve written numerous times, agile teams must automate many aspects of their work, such as testing and build creation and any other process whose automation would save time for the team.
August 30, 2022
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Decide as a team we must… helping a team resistant to change
Change is a difficult subject and it’s one that many struggle to implement. There is no shame in admitting that I have had times where change has been accepted by the whole team and other times it has not been accepted.
August 30, 2022
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House Of QA – Setting Up A QA Center Of Excellence
Have you wondered how to set up a QA practice from scratch? Are you joining a practice that needs a reboot?
August 19, 2022
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Blueprint for Test Strategy Creation
The context Having a strategy or plan can be the key to unlocking many successes, this is true to most contexts in life whether that be sport, business, education, and much more. The same is true for any company or organisation that delivers software/application solutions to their end users/customers.
August 19, 2022
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Make e2e Testing Easier With the Right Tools
End-to-end (e2e further in the text) testing is immensely important since there are issues that can only be discovered while testing the system as a whole, testing it from one end to another.
August 18, 2022
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Exploring Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE)
The effort to get to 90 from 60 marks is relatively easier than going from 90 to 100. As we pursue excellence, the bar for quality rises. Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) is not a new concept but widely misunderstood.
August 16, 2022
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Why Automate Tests In An Agile Environment?
Agile teams will fail if they don’t use frameworks to automate different aspects of the development, such as tests, builds, test environments, etc.
August 10, 2022
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Session-Based Test Management (SBTM) in Agile Development
Exploratory testing is one of the most effective and powerful methods of testing. It combines activities such as test design, execution, and documentation; it focuses on learning the application under test.
August 9, 2022
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