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Remote Agile Testing – Tips For Success

One of the main concepts depicted in the Agile Manifesto is close communication among team members. However, in the real world, sometimes we have to face the situation that the whole agile team is split into several sub teams that may not be in the same location or time zone. This situation usually happens with global companies or when some work is outsourced to a services provider that may be in another country. As a specialized software testing company, we often have the situation where our customer develops their software while depending on us to be responsible for the quality assurance as a remote agile testing team.

With agile development methods now becoming more popular, we have had to adapt from a waterfall situation where we wait for a software build based on fixed time periods to a‘remote agile testing’model. To do this, we must have a very good plan. But even before starting the project, we think about a few soft factors that have a significant impact on success but are often forgotten. These include: More

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Agile Testing with Jared Richardson and Philip Lew – Webinar March 20 2013

We are happy to announce that March 20 at 10 AM EST we are holding an agile testing webinar with two veterans in the field: Jared Richardson and Philip Lew. Jared and Phil will discuss the changes needed for QA … More

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Software Test Automation – What Percentage Should be Automated?

From February to April 2012 we conducted a survey on the state of testing in Scrum development teams. The results will be published soon. One of the questions we asked, and I already want to share with you, was what … More

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How to Benefit from Rapid Deployment Cycles and Agile Testing

April 26 2012 together with our friends from www.go2group.com we did a very successful webinar on Agile Testing. Mike Maheu and Shawn Song discussed their experiences setting up, implementing, and working in agile QA in co-located and distributed teams. We … More

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Software Quality – What is it?

With the increasing success of cloud deployment and SaaS business models software has replaced many companies. Today’s largest bookseller is not Borders, its Amazon, a software company. Netflix, a software company, left BlockBuster in the dust…
As software usage becomes more mission critical in almost every aspect of life, understanding and thus improving software quality also becomes critical. These days, agile methodologies have worked toward integrating QA with development rather than having QA as an afterthought through test driven development combined with…
The problem with quality is that it is an abstract concept and cannot be measured easily. It’s presence is difficult to define and see, yet it’s easy to point out its absence. So before finding the solution, whether complex or simple, let’s examine what quality is… More

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