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Pivoting Organizations to Agile Testing: An Interview with Howard Deiner
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In this interview, independent software consultant Howard Deiner explains how agile testing is different from traditional testing, how to get an organization to try new things, and how the Apollo space program utilized agile techniques. |
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A Year of “Testing” the Cloud for Development and Test
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Jim Trentadue describes the first year his organization used the cloud for its non-production needs: development, testing, training, and production support. Jim begins by describing the components of a cloud environment and how it differs from a traditional physical server structure. |
Jim Trentadue, New York Life
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Test-Driven Development for Developers: Plain and Simple
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Test-driven development (TDD) is not an easy discipline to establish. However, it provides considerable return on investment for the effort. Rob Myers describes the costs of TDD (the introduction of test-maintenance overhead) and its benefits (greatly improved quality, productivity, and... |
Rob Myers, Agile Institute
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Pivoting Your Testers to Become Agile
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Many organizations struggle with transforming from the old-style specialized silos of skills into agile teams with generalized specialists. Without this pivot, we get sub-optimal agile/Scrum environments. Howard Deiner describes what can go wrong when integrating testers properly into an... |
Howard Deiner, BigVisible Solutions
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Test (and More) Patterns for Continuous Software Delivery
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Top web companies employ continuous delivery of software to build and deploy systems faster and gain a marked competitive advantage. You can do it, too! Andy Singleton shares the patterns for testing in real time that result in more frequent and more reliable releases. He explains why... |
Andy Singleton, Assembla
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Continuous Automated Regression Testing to the Rescue
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A major concern when developing new software features is that another part of the code will be affected in unexpected ways. With a typical development processes, testers often do not run a full set of product regression tests until late in the release when it is much more costly to fix... |
Brenda Kise, Proto Labs Inc.
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Making Testers Miserable: An Interview with Andrew Wulf Andrew Wulf runs TheCodist blog, is the lead iOS programmer for Travelocity, and owns Idle Diversions—an iOS game company. In this interview with Noel Wurst, Wulf discusses his role as a coder to "make testers miserable," the need for clean code, and practicing agile before it was a term. |
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Usability Testing with "CAN I USE THIS?" David introduces a unique approach for application usability testing. Each letter of the memorable "CAN I USE THIS?" will assist with test idea generation. |
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iOS Test Automation: The Trifecta In this agile world, as the expectations for rapid mobile application development and delivery get shorter every day, the users’ patience with a buggy app has become almost nonexistent. Elizabeth Taylor shares how to reduce iOS application testing time and gain confidence in your... |
Elizabeth Taylor, Digimarc
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Don’t Go over the Waterfall: Keep Agile Testing Agile
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All too often an agile iteration resembles a mini-waterfall cycle with developers coding for the duration of the iteration and then throwing code “over the wall” to the test team. This results in the all-too-familiar “test squeeze” with testers often testing code after the iteration has... |
Aaron Barrett, Infusionsoft
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