More Agile Testing!

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AKA: Moar Agile Testing More (Agile Testing) (More Agile) Testing Janet Gregory and I, along with more than 40 contributors and many helpful reviewers (it takes a village), have finished our new book. We delve into many areas that are new or more important since our first book Agile Testing was published. Please see our […]

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Even better – communicating while drawing!

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In my previous post I told about a great experience collaborating with teammates on a difficult new feature. The conversations around this continued this week when we were all in the office. Many of our remaining questions were answered when the programmers walked us through a whiteboard drawing of how the new algorithm should work. […]

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Teamwork for building in quality

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I can’t say it enough: it takes the whole team to build quality into a software product, and testing is an integral part of software development along with coding, design and many other activities. I’d like to illustrate this yet again with my experience a couple days ago. Recently our team has been brainstorming and […]

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How to help developers grok testing

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I presented a session called “Developers who grok testing: Why I love them and how they mitigate risk” at CodeMash. We did a mini workshop, dividing into groups to brainstorm what devs need to learn about testing in order to grow towards grokking it. How can testers and developers communicate and collaborate better? Take a […]

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Codemash: Advanced Topics in Agile Testing Workshop

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Thanks to the participants in today’s workshop! We tackled quite a few tough testing-related issues that many agile teams encounter. The slides, pictures of all the outcomes such as topics, impact maps and brainwriting pages, are available here. After each table group identified their most burning testing issues, they created SMART goals for each one […]

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