The Great Recession had darkened the global economy in the first half of 1900s, which took a while to recover. The last decade has witnessed some phenomenal changes in the financial domain across the globe and has created remarkable opportunities not just for the strong economies of the world, [...]
A popular idiom states, ‘Being an early bird is better than being a night owl.’ This might not click, but the idea is that in today’s competent software development scenario, it is considered beneficial to plan testing along with the development process. ‘Start testing early’ is one of the [...]
In today’s business world, alignment of IT systems to an organization’s business goals is much needed to stay ahead of the competition. If the IT systems were built a long time back, they would be inflexible and difficult to use, due to their limited abilities, for today’s business needs. [...]
‘Deliver Quality at Speed’ is the success mantra in the current highly competitive digital business world. The traditional approaches for software development divide development and testing into two steps – developers build a feature, and then the QA team tests it for defects. As the product grows, the testing [...]
Today, when developers are using tools like J unit/N unit for testing their code, approaches such as test driven development (TDD) and behaviour driven development (BDD) focus on improving the quality of the code that is being written. Though the approaches require a different mind-set, the objective remains the [...]
Some of the common complaints about exploratory testing are that it needs subject matter expertise, it is not structured and it cannot be measured. But the fact is that exploratory testing is self-managed and self-structured. Exploratory testing is not a technique but an approach of exploring software without following [...]
Continuing from where we left off in Practical Approach for Improving Agile Testing Maturity – Part 1, let us deep dive into the remaining critical factors for improving an organizations’ agile testing maturity. As explained, the 5 steps to improve your agile test maturity are: Discover and Document Analyze and Benchmark Develop [...]
It is very hard to explain something that we already do. Exploratory testing is fast catching up with the testing community in the context of agile. Exploratory testing is a form of ad hoc testing. But ad hoc testing is considered to be more unstructured and does not get [...]
Today, a lot of software is being developed (and tested) in increasingly Agile environments for accelerating the product delivery with uncompromised quality and ability to manage the ever-changing priorities. Boundaries between diverse functions are shrinking and roles and responsibilities are undergoing a big shift. Organizations aspiring to be competitive still find [...]
While business transformations are critical to meet the market demands and staying relevant in the context of change, the journey of transformation is no easy task. It is fraught with many risks, which if not handled well may de-rail the entire program and its efforts. The success or failure [...]
