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How to Use Your Data in an Agile Environment: An Interview with Larry Maccherone[interview]
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In this interview, Larry Maccherone, the director of analytics and research at AgileCraft, explains how you can better use data within your software team. He digs into metrics and measurements within an agile environment and how to determine what data is valuable. |
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Use DevOps to Drive Your Agile ALM[magazine] Successful DevOps operations assume that your team has the ability to adjust with constant change. To succeed at continuous integration and deployment, a comprehensive agile plan is needed. Bob Aiello and Leslie Sachs identify four critical success factors that you should employ. |
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Testing in Production: A Double-Edged Sword[article] Testing in production gives more realistic opportunities to test, increases application transparency between the core product team and users, and supports the idea of continuous development through continuous testing. It's a good technique to embrace in your testing process—but it should not be entered into unprepared. Learn the advantages and pitfalls here. |
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Using DevOps to Solve Your IT Problems: An Interview with Sherry Chang[interview] In this interview, Sherry Chang, chief architect for Intel IT's DevOps initiative, explains how DevOps can solve many of your lingering IT problems. She defines the term, details how DevOps can be seen as disruptive to some teams, and lists what techniques you should consider using. |
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What Is Cucumber and Why Should I Care?[magazine] If there ever were a game changer to energize a development team, Cucumber just may be it. An open source tool, Cucumber helps in the running of automated customer acceptance tests. Matt Wynne, a cofounder of Cucumber Limited, delivers a brilliant introduction to this tool. |
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When User Stories Are Not Enough[presentation]
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IT organizations adopting agile development often struggle when applying agile to anything other than small, mid-sized, or non-critical applications. Because IT organizations must deal with the myriad business rules, non-functional requirements, industry regulations, and associated audits... |
Tony Higgins
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Add Security Testing Tools to Your Delivery Pipeline[presentation]
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Developing a delivery pipeline means more than just adding automated deploys to the development cycle. To be successful, quality testing of all types must be incorporated throughout the process to ensure that problems aren’t slipping through. Those checks must include security, or you risk... |
Gene Gotimer
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Become an Influential Tester: Learn How to Be Heard[presentation]
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As a tester, are you frustrated that no one listens to you? Are you finding bugs and having them ignored? Are you worried that the development process and product quality aren’t as good as they should be? Jane Fraser shares ways to help you be heard―ways to position yourself as a leader... |
Jane Fraser
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Continuous Testing - The New Normal[presentation]
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Some notions of continuous testing (CT) have been applied in software development methodologies for a while but it was never called by that term. Another term sometimes used for CT is parallel testing. While some have mastered CT, most of us struggle with how to transform our current... |
Tom Wissink
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Better Together: Group Exploratory Testing[presentation]
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Jeff Abshoff faced a most difficult challenge in 2015. His team size tripled, with testers of varying skill levels spread across six sites worldwide. The product was moving to a more frequent release cycle, was of poor quality, and had multiple key stakeholders. Features were incomplete... |
Jeff Abshoff
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Build Your Open Source Performance Testing Platform in the Cloud[presentation]
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Proprietary performance testing platforms can be complex, expensive, and difficult to scale. With the right approach, everything from continuous integration, to continuous deployment pipelines, to full-scale production loads can be supported, but a dizzying array of platforms, services... |
Gopal Brugalette
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High-Performance Agile Testing in Software Development[presentation]
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Agile testing is an approach to software testing that follows the principles of agile software development as outlined in the Agile Manifesto. Since many software development organizations are using agile development practices or transitioning to agile software development, it is very... |
Sammy Kolluru
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Test Design for Responsive Websites[presentation]
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Websites built with responsive design come with the added testing challenge of having a single web application working across all screen sizes and many devices. So, how can you ensure your application will render correctly without testing on a huge number of smartphones, tablets, and... |
Adam Rosenberg
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Test the Candy Crush Saga Game[presentation]
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Candy Crush Saga is one of the biggest mobile games today with more than 1000 levels of difficulty—and users continue to ask for more. When building new content, it is extremely important to make sure that the level of difficulty is balanced and that the user does not experience crashes or... |
Alexander Andelkovic
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Agile QA & Test: A Shift in Mindset from Finding to Preventing Bugs[presentation]
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Although most software companies have adopted agile development these days, many still treat quality assurance (QA) as something that gets handled when coding is done and is “ready for test.” Use of this waterfall method to ensure quality costs teams in rework, context switching, slower... |
Oscar Gracia and Todd Albers
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