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Test Design for Automation: Anti-Patterns Just like with design patterns, anti-patterns can benefit from a short and catchy name to make them easy to remember and talk about. Hans Buwalda shares a list of typical situations seen in tests that can harm automation and names for them. |
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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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Providing Visibility into Testing Processes That Matter If the goal of a tester's customer report is to figure out what needs fixing, how close you are to shipping, or how much time you need to do additional testing, the metrics provided often don't give any of those answers. Matt Heusser tells you how and why you need to focus your information. |
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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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Testing Customer Touchpoints When testing a product, it can be easy to neglect how support processes such as call verifications, email communication, online chat, and service request processes function. But these touchpoints go a long way toward defining customer experience and an organization in general. How can you improve? |
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Software Testing: A Social Responsibility As businesses and consumers embrace big data and analytics, mobile, cloud, the IoT, and other rapidly emerging technologies, the expectation that software "just works" is rising exponentially. Equipping our technical workforce with the best education and training, tools, and approaches is critical. |
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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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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. |
