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Transitioning to Enterprise Agility—and Bringing Outsourced Delivery Partners Along[article] When companies adopt agile internally, they often forget to extend the concepts and values to their partners. You have to look at your outsourced delivery components as part of the process that needs to be included as an extended team. Collaboration, reflection, and improvement is at the heart of agile, and it should look that way from the perspective of all elements in the delivery chain. |
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Building a Continuous Deployment Environment: An Interview with Jared Richardson[interview]
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In this interview, process coach Jared Richardson defines continuous integration and testing, explains how they lead to a continuous deployment environment, and covers why Jenkins has become such a popular and standardized open source continuous integration tool. |
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Code Factories: Making Agile Work in Large Organizational Teams[article] Making the transition to agile can be difficult for teams that are used to working in large groups and reporting to a single manager. Kris Hatcher suggests a new way to work: in smaller teams called code factories, which are created to stick with a specific product throughout its lifetime. |
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Better Test Automation, Metrics, and Measurement: An Interview with Mike Sowers[interview]
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In this interview, TechWell CIO and consultant Mike Sowers details key metrics that test managers employ to determine software quality, how to know a piece of software's readiness, and guidelines for developing a successful test measurement program. |
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5 Steps to Successful Process Management in Mergers and Acquisitions[article] When going through a merger or acquisition, capturing the critical processes of both parties is a key to success. Including everyone in the planning helps ease the impacts of change and develop ideas for the future. Here are five steps to assist with process management and create a new organization that is greater than the sum of its parts. |
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Embracing the Top Trends in Software Testing[magazine] As user needs change for software apps expanding into IoT, mobile, and the cloud, testing approaches need to change. Shyam Ramanathan discusses eleven of the most important testing trends you should incorporate. |
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Ensuring Maximum Quality in the Era of IoT and Wearables[presentation]
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Until recently, the Internet of Things (IoT) was just an idea that techies talked about. Unlike innovations in the past, development and testing of the IoT is significantly more elaborate. After introducing the technology of wearables and IoT, Gauri Arondekar delves into the components and... |
Gauri Arondekar
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Defect Metrics for Organization and Project Health[presentation]
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Are you looking for a simple, meaningful approach to gather and report defect metrics? Want to make your project defects more visible? Wondering how to report defects to management and show value? With an ever increasing demand to show the business value of your testing, David Bialek... |
David Bialek
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Uncover Untold Stories in Your Data: A Deep Dive on Data Profiling[presentation]
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How well do you know your data? Organizations are discovering the value in their data—as evidence of what they have done and a clue to how they can improve the bottom line. With the increase in analytics, it is no secret that there are more eyes on the data. And analyzing data can give... |
Catherine Cruz Agosto
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Helpful Practices in Agile Testing[presentation]
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“Testing” in an agile environment is much different from classic testing on waterfall projects. Testers must be involved in all aspects of software development. Jeroen Mengerink shows you how professional testers can become key contributors in agile projects. First, he explains how to pair... |
Jeroen Mengerink
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Turbocharge Your Automation Framework to Shorten Regression Execution Time[presentation]
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Asad Faruqui and Moni Mau say that their old regression automation used to take three-to-four days of execution time as they ran against different browser versions, locales, and currencies. They wanted to make the automation framework more efficient so features could go to market faster. |
Asad Faruqui
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Git and GitHub for Testers[presentation]
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GitHub is the repository for the vast majority of today’s open-source software. And that is why many interviewers look at applicants’ public GitHub.com accounts to assess their interests, popularity, helpfulness, and consistency. To collaborate with developers, today’s testers need git and... |
Wilson Mar
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Telling Our Testing Stories[presentation]
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As software practitioners focus on technology issues, we often find that our messages to management and the business are either not heard or are misinterpreted. And sometimes we do not hear the messages that they need us to hear. Isabel Evans examines our natural ability to tell stories... |
Isabel Evans
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The Canary in the Coal Mine: Create an Early Warning Tool to Help Your Testing[presentation]
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Many organizations are using virtualization technology to increase the number of available test machines. However, this increase creates a new dilemma for testers. How can you confirm that all test systems are running properly and not showing signs of serious defects? Since many companies... |
Stephen Burlingame
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Boost Test Coverage with Automated Visual Testing[presentation]
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Joe Colantonio shares how combining your existing automated tests with scalable automated visual testing can help you dramatically increase coverage, reduce maintenance, and substantially boost test robustness, efficiency, and ROI. Joe includes real-life use cases—automating cross-browser... |
Joe Colantonio
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