Developing Approaches to Better Estimation
“Estimation is hard – we often ask the wrong questions at the wrong times and end up with the wrong answers” – so say Anja Wever, Sharon Robson and Shane Hastie, the three SoftEd Practice Leads and...
View ArticleSoftware testing thought leadership event: KWST#2
Last week SoftEd hosted the second ever Kiwi Workshop on Software Testing (KWST). After last year’s hugely successful event, we were all counting down the days to host the second KWST. This event is...
View ArticleA discussion about ‘Value Sync’ with Robert Sabourin
At STANZ 2013 this coming August guest speaker Robert Sabourin – adjunct professor of software engineering at McGill University, President and Principle Consultant for Amibug.com, and author of ‘I Am A...
View ArticleTest Automation Pyramid Expanded
I was recently at Nashville attending Agile 2013 and had the great pleasure of finally meeting Janet Gregory. I have been tweeting with Lisa Crispin for years and it was fabulous to meet the Janet part...
View ArticleAgile Walls Part 3 – Testing Walls
My last post was about Architecture Walls, this one is a distillation of the architecture into the testing world. In this post I describe how testing can be displayed, tracked and managed on a wall for...
View ArticleSQL? NoSQL? NewSQL? What the….SQL??
I was doing some reading over the Christmas break and was honing my skills on NoSQL (as you do!) and then saw this article from InfoQ that talks about SQL making a come-back. I for one did not even...
View ArticleIt’s just a jump to the left….
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (stage version) was recently playing locally and I was humming along the lyrics the other day and was struck with how much this related to testing! The time warp is the...
View ArticleMetrics rock!
Yes! Metrics are fun, powerful and full of goodness. The key to making metrics like this is to understand what people want to know about your solution and the gather the information, via test...
View ArticleAgile testing – how do we make it all fit?
One of the questions I am asked the most is “how do we fit testing into an agile lifecycle?” this is a big question, and it is something that requires a true understanding of agile values and...
View ArticleContinuous delivery – what does it mean? what does it mean to testing?
Continuous delivery is a corner stone to the agile approach, that’s why we talk about things like “sustainable pace”, focus on “technical excellence”, and clear understanding of “done”. Within the...
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