A Developer and a User Walk into a Bar: 5 Steps to Getting Users’ Insights...
As a developer working on consumer online software, you’re invested in creating meaningful experiences for users. At the same time, if you ask customers what they want, they will – as Henry Ford...
View ArticleCreative Software Testing In Agile Environments | David Hussman
A lot of software testers (or test managers) that I’ve met recently have reasserted something that – for me, anyway – seems to be an interesting phenomenon: Many software testers don’t come from...
View ArticleCreative Software Testing in Agile Environments | Ken Pugh
Ken Pugh has been developing hardware and software for more than 30 years. His experience in the industry ranges from coaching teams on Agile methodologies to developing software for embedded systems...
View ArticleThe Increased Complexity of Testing in Agile Environments
Performing testing, specifically test automation, is not child’s play. Many testers face a torrent of challenges in their projects. These obstacles can be based on manpower, geographic locations of...
View ArticleUp Your Game with Code Review
Most development managers innately understand that code review is an indispensable strategy to improve software quality. What many managers don’t know is that time invested in the up-front process of...
View ArticleAvoiding Sand in the Agile Gas Tank
Most software organizations are some version of Agile. Yet, lingering habits still gum up the works. There are some surprising and obvious-in-retrospect reasons why organizations are not as Agile as...
View ArticleHow To Determine Your Virtual User Quota
So you’ve decided that it’s time to load test your website or app? Awesome. There are a probably a handful of questions that are swirling around your head as you prepare to do some performance testing....
View ArticleThe Half-Life of Innovation
New products hit the market faster than businesses can consume them, forcing IT executives and business managers to set priorities. If policies are too rigid, competitiveness may suffer. If policies...
View ArticleCreative Software Testing in Agile Environment | Iain McCowatt
And here we have it… the final installment of the Creativity in Testing series. The last interview in the series is with none other than Iain McCowatt, Director at Barclays. With more than 20 years of...
View ArticleJohn Boyd and the Origins of “Agility”
Agility is all around us these days, but the origins of Agile programming and Agile marketing lie in the Korean War and the work-up to invading Iraq. Lisa Morgan recently wrote that “Most software...
View ArticleQuality in Agile Development: Notes from Keep Austin Agile Conference
I attended the Keep Austin Agile conference last Friday at the Renaissance Hotel in Austin, TX. The conference was sold out, with 500 attendees. In fact, more than 100 people were said to be waiting...
View ArticleFeeding the Flame of the Collaborative Development Revolution
Agile, open source, the cloud, and DevOps have all led to a world where everyone should be involved in programming. Yes, everyone. Once upon a time there were users and there were IT and never the...
View ArticleTestComplete 10.4 & QAComplete 9.9 Brings Collaboration Across Teams and...
The SmartBear team is thrilled to announce TestComplete 10.4 and QAComplete 9.9 release. The focus of both these releases has been helping organizations deliver high quality applications in shorter...
View ArticleThe Software Naughty List: Most Hilariously Bad Tech Jokes, Puns and Memes of...
The Software Naughty List from SmartBear Inspired by the character “Schmidt” from the popular sitcom, New Girl, we have a fun little tradition around the office at SmartBear headquarters called the...
View ArticlePatterns of API Virtualization
When Christopher Alexander wrote A Pattern Language in 1977, he was looking for a more powerful way to describe how towns and buildings were laid out. These patterns would allow architects, builders...
View ArticleHow to Grow Agility through Code Review
It has always interested me to see how different development teams treat code reviews. Some teams see code reviews as crucial to their success while others see them as a barrier to getting things done....
View ArticleTesting in an Agile Environment
The traditional software development life-cycle model is undergoing a rapid change, primarily because businesses need to deliver quality application in shorter release cycles and at a reduced cost....
View ArticleDeliberate Application Testing in Agile with Dan North
Yesterday morning, I attended Dan North’s keynote session, Deliberate Testing in an Agile World. Dan spoke in depth about the gaps in traditional testing approach and how risks associated with software...
View ArticleQA Testing For What Your Users Really Want
Share The software world in general is moving toward increased shared responsibility and individual ownership. From developers to operations to testing, the microservices world has us focusing on...
View ArticleGetting That New Tool Past The “Gate Keeper”
Share You’re part of a software development group, and you’re surrounded by techies like yourself – people that get excited about new ideas, approaches, tools, frameworks, and languages. But then...
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