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Agile Q&A: What about defects?
In my previous post, “Agile Q&A: Are there types of User Stories?” I discussed the difference between User Stories, Non-User Stories, and Spikes. During a class where Product Backlogs and Agile...
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You Call That Unit Testing? – What Is It?
Many developers, as well as testers, have a hard time understanding exactly what it means to “unit test” code that has been written. What is it exactly? Why is it so important? What does it mean for...
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As you saw from the previous post, “You Call That Unit Testing – What Is It?”, unit testing is something that is very important and should be very much a part of a team’s everyday process. However, the...
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Centers of Excellence: Friend or Foe?
Many companies establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) for various functional groups within their organization. The intent is to establish a core competency around a specific software development...
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The Role of Agile Quality Assurance
In traditional waterfall projects, one of the main roles of Quality Assurance was to decide whether to give “QA Signoff” — to decide whether the product can go to production. This expectation reflects...
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Agile Testing, A Whole-Team Approach
Software testing does not solely fall on the shoulders of the QA team members within an Agile team. Testing is a whole-team mind-set that extends beyond detecting and correcting defects within in a...
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