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When Is it Time to Expand Your Agile Team? Should you expand your agile team to include an even greater number of members? And should you consider spreading your new agile knowledge to other members of the company to make the entire organization agile? Determining scale can be tricky. |
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Jelly Beans and Defect Classification: Different Strategies for Success When there’s a bowl of jelly beans, some people grab a few at random, but most of us have favorites. If you're crafty and have flexible standards, you can maximize consumption by adjusting your criteria as colors dwindle. Classifying defects should not be like choosing jelly beans; you need firm standards. |
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A Tester’s Guide to Dealing with Scrummerfall If you’ve been a tester on an agile team, you’ve probably experienced “Scrummerfall” behavior—a cross between Scrum and waterfall. There isn’t really any collaboration, and there's too much work in progress during each sprint. Bob Galen tells you how planning can help you avoid it. |
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Integrating Exploratory Testing into Product Design Exploratory testing, or ET, is a good fit for agile processes, can be done by any member of the dev/test team, and helps develop applications that map to customers' needs. Kevin Dunne writes how with increased use of ET, testing becomes an intellectual pursuit driving product quality and agility. |
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What's in the Fall 2015 Issue of Better Software Magazine? For the first time, the cover of Better Software magazine showcases two articles. The dual features are about the new ISO 29119 software quality standard—one pro, one con. Reading both points of view will make you think about what your organization is doing to adopt quality standards. |
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Important Questions to Ask Yourself before Committing to Agile A head full of indecision is a common occurrence as you inch closer and closer toward a transition to the agile methodology, so in order to lessen this fear and push forward with a clearer mind, you need to ask yourself a few important questions. |
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Stronger, Faster Quality with Simple, Focused Checks Imagine focusing on prioritized business requirements at the software layer closest to where those business items are implemented. Writing just one check—that is, a programmed verification—per business requirement makes for simple, focused checks, supporting stronger, faster quality around the team. |
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Building an Effective Lean Testing Strategy Lean testing strategies can help QA teams effectively mitigate wasted resources and ensure that they are giving each project the attention it deserves. Sanjay Zalavadia details some strategies QA teams should implement in order to create an effective lean testing practice for their operations. |
