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The Changing Role of Testing in DevOps Testing is just as important as ever, but with DevOps, who does the testing and how it is done are changing. Testing has become the responsibility of everyone along the software development lifecycle, and automation is key to success. Learn how testers should elevate their skills and shift their QA mindsets. |
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When User Acceptance Testing Isn’t User acceptance testing is a great way to find issues that will matter to your customers before you release your product—but that's only if you're performing it correctly. Are you aware of what user acceptance testing entails (and what it doesn't)? Are you sure your team is clear on these goals, too? |
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Choosing the Right Agile Testing Tool for Your QA Team To be truly effective, QA teams have to choose the right agile testing tools for their needs and ensure that it has the required features to ensure quality and bolster testing efforts. Sanjay Zalavadia outlines a few things to consider as you search for the best solution for your QA team. |
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Make It Easy for Your Customers to Provide Feedback The way some organizations request feedback ensures they don’t get much of it. If you really care about what your customers think of your product or service (and you should), you need to ask for feedback soon after the customer's interaction, give them time to respond, and allow space for their thoughts. |
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Which Test Metrics Are Useful in Agile Projects? Just as our measurement and metrics capabilities improve as our technology and knowledge evolve, we must also refine and adapt our software quality and testing measures as we embrace an agile culture. Our measurement and metrics strategy should shift to lower levels of the application or system under test. |
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Developing Mobile Apps: Focus on Features, Not Ratings Does your team desperately want to have a five-star app? If so, you are chasing the wrong goal. Relative measures of quality are better because they can be adapted to your own situation. Instead of asking “How can we get five stars?” you should be asking “How can we get more stars than the competition?" |
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3 Benefits of Collecting User Feedback Early With agile software development, users are involved from the very beginning and are provided a minimum viable product to critique. A QA tool can be used to gather and organize user feedback while planning the next move. Sanjay Zalavadia highlights the benefits of collecting feedback early. |
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Agile Demands a Holistic View of Testing and Automation Is your team struggling to transform your traditional testing methods, techniques, and tools in the context of an agile culture? The accountability for the right level of quality delivered at the right time belongs to the collective team. It's important to make decisions together about what value means. |
