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STARCANADA Testing Jump Start Agile Testing with Acceptance Test Driven Development
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Does your agile team struggle to find the right level of detail prior to beginning development? You may be suffering from “chunky” user stories—those that are too large or insufficiently defined to implement or test efficiently. Acceptance test driven development (ATDD) can help you...

Susan Brockley
STARCANADA Testing Behavior Driven Development—A Guide to Agile Practices
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It seems as if the agile methods have lots of DD’s going on. BDD – Behavior Driven Development, ATDD – Acceptance Test Driven Development and several others. Adopting BDD allows for testing to be done as early as possible in the software development life cycle, promoting accurate testing...

Josh Eastman
STARCANADA Testing Scale Your QA & Test: Testing with Multiple Teams in Large Agile Organizations
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Agile practices are maturing, and more agile teams are making development and testing work in an effective way thanks to TDD, BDD, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. However, there are many challenges still to conquer in agile practices, such as the lack of accountability for...

Pablo Garcia Munos
STARWEST Testing Shift Left Testing: Going Beyond Agile
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The concept of “shifting testing left” in the software development lifecycle is not new. Shifting testing from manual to automated and then upstream into engineering is a driving factor in DevOps and agile software development. However, Michael Nauman wonders why test automation...

Michael Nauman
STARWEST Testing Testing and DevOps: Organizations and Their Culture Must Change
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The DevOps movement is here. Now, companies with mature systems are breaking down siloed IT departments and federating them into product development teams and departments. Testing and its practices are at the heart of these changes. Traditionally, development organizations have been...

Adam Auerbach
STARWEST Testing Where Did My Testers Go? Test Management on Agile Projects
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Substantial confusion exists about the roles and responsibilities of test managers in an agile software development process. Agile seeks to streamline project management and leadership under the role of a ScrumMaster. So, what does this mean for test managers? How do they stay...

Jeffery Payne
STARWEST Testing Traditional Testing: The Silent Killer of DevOps
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Many organizations today are adopting DevOps to accelerate software delivery. However, once they have invested significant time and money optimizing most parts of the software delivery process, testing often holds them back from achieving the desired results. Why? Because software...

Wayne Ariola
STARWEST Testing Agile Testing at Scale
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Mary Thorn has had the opportunity in the past twenty years to work at many startups, creating several QA/test departments from scratch. For the past ten years, she has done this in agile software companies. Recently Mary moved from leading small agile test organizations to leading a large...

Mary Thorn
STARWEST Testing Augmenting Regression Testing in Agile Teams
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Today, three things are undeniable facts of business—projects are becoming more agile, teams are learning to function well remotely, and the tester’s role is evolving. Mike Hrycyk believes that testers in agile teams face daunting challenges and often struggle to keep up with the pace of...

Mike Hrycyk
Agile DevOps The Agile Dojo: Shiny Toy or Best Idea Ever?
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Remember your first two weeks on a scrum team? It was fantastic and miserable all at the same time. And when things got difficult, your team teetered on the edge of the waterfall. What if there were a way to help teams gel more quickly and accelerate their agile learning by immersing them...

Francie Van Wirkus

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