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How to Achieve Collaboration as a Key Driver for Continuous Testing

Far too often the dream of a successful digital transformation shatters against a limited, team-centric continuous testing strategy. This article describes how testing must be applied to fit not only agile teams but also the whole enterprise, why collaboration is the key enabler and how different testing techniques work together for overall success.

Alexander Mohr
on Aug 11, 2018
Culture & Methods

A Quick Guide to Implementing ATDD

Collaboration is one of the core values of Agile Methodology. That being said, what happens when you notice lack of collaboration between developers, testers and business-minded individuals in agile teams? This article provides a quick guide to implementing Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) in your projects to mitigate problems due to lack of collaboration.

Raj Subrameyer
on May 02, 2018
Culture & Methods

Architecturally Aligned Testing

Testing microservices should not be done in a separate test phase, by a dedicated test team, but instead collaboratively by cross-functional teams. There is a shift left in testing to ensure that teams stay autonomous and a shift right in testing towards exploration and experimentation. Continuous Testing and a culture of experimentation are enablers to release microservices fast and reliably.

Stefan Friese
on Apr 08, 2018
Culture & Methods

Regression Testing Strategies: an Overview

However tedious, regression testing is a powerful gatekeeper protecting product quality. It is present in any project regardless of the development methodology. But how to organize it well? This calls for a quality regression testing strategy that requires good understanding of all aspects of this testing effort (types, methods and approaches). Find out more in our article.

Tatiana Bessonova
on Feb 19, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book "Humans vs Computers"

Author Gojko Adzic has released a book, Humans vs Computers, in which he tells stories about the impact of inflexible automation, edge cases and software bugs on the lives of real people. He explains the common mistakes built into the systems and provides advice on how to prevent these mistakes from being built into our systems in the first place.

Shane Hastie
on Sep 20, 2017
Culture & Methods

Production Like Performance Tests of Web-Services

Tests should always keep the end user view in mind. But how to test web services, which are not directly customer-facing, and in particular, how to performance test them in a meaningful way? This article outlines performance split testing as a performance test approach that is relying on real-time production traffic.

Stefan Friese
on Apr 29, 2016
Java

Beyond Page Objects: Next Generation Test Automation with Serenity and the Screenplay Pattern

Automated acceptance testing reduces time wasted in manual testing and bug fixing, and when combined with Behaviour-Driven Development, can guide development effort. But it requires skill, practice and discipline. The Screenplay Pattern helps teams address these difficulties and is where you may end up by mercilessly refactoring Page Objects using SOLID design principles.

Andy Palmer Antony Marcano John Ferguson Smart Jan Molak
on Mar 15, 2016
Interview and Book Review: BDD In Action

"BDD In Action" is a book that aims to cover the full spectrum of BDD practices from requirements through to the development of production code backed by executable specifications and automated tests.

Craig Smith
on May 10, 2015
Continuous Delivery: Huge Benefits, but Challenges Too

This article explains why Paddy Power adopted continuous delivery (CD), describes the resulting CD capability, and reports the huge benefits and challenges involved. This information can help practitioners plan their adoption of CD and help researchers form their research agendas.

Lianping Chen
on Apr 30, 2015
A Tester’s Perspective on Agile Snags

Priyanka presents some of the advantages and challenges that agile adoption brings for testers and testing and presents some ideas on how to overcome the obstacles and leverage the advantages. She discusses the agile tester mindset and how the role of someone doing testing in an agile environment changes.

Priyanka Hasija
on Apr 18, 2015
Book Review: Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef - Second Edition

The second edition of Stephen Nelson-Smith's book "Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef" covers the principles behind "Infrastructure as Code", provides an introduction to Ruby, Chef, and important Tools. The main part consists of detailed examples on how to use the tools required to write fully tested infrastructure code.

Matthias Marschall
on Feb 17, 2014
Culture & Methods

Functional GUI Testing Automation Patterns

The process of developing an automated functional test solution is not much different from the process of creating the same program but Preparation and definition of the best practices are critical.

Sasha Reminnyi
on Aug 02, 2013