Agile testing is a software testing practice that follows the principles of agile software development.
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What goes in your definition of done (DoD) ?
In agile projects, we use the definition of done to ascertain when to consider a user story to be ready for acceptance (implemented and tested). In the project's DoD we have things like following ...
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Testing an application under continuous development
Ill try and set the scene for you all as best as I can.
I have been working as the sole Tester on a suite of 13 related applications which is the end result of 5 separate developers work. Basically ...
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Bug hunts and possible alternatives?
Recently, our QA department has been running bug hunts. Once a sprint all the teams do 10 min demos then they spend the whole day submitting bugs for a feature getting ready for release. They've been ...
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Should I try the evaluation version of HP Quality Center?
I'm trying to determine if I should spend some time working with a trial version of HP Quality Center. For a number of reasons, my time is very valuable to me right now both at work and in my ...
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If I didn't use TDD but want to transition to agile, should I go back and create those unit tests?
In an transitioning agile environment, if there was no Test Driven Development (no unit tests created), should you create unit tests to catch up on technical debt? And to what extent? Should they ...
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Will the new ISO/IEC 29119 Software Testing standard work with agile methodologies like Scrum?
I somehow stumbled across some references to the new ISO/IEC 29119 Software Testing standard that is currently draft stage (apparently).
I have not seen the details of this new standard, however I ...
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Fitting regression testing in a Agile/ Scrum development cycle
What is the best way to fit regression tests into a Agile/ Scrum development cycle?
I've been working as the sole QA person in a 4 person Scrum team developing a new web client in jQuery. I am ...
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Good resources for traditional testers adapting to an Agile environment
I haven't experienced a transition from waterfall to Agile myself - I worked for companies using Prince2, waterfall approaches to managing projects, and then I got a job working for a company using ...
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Testing with no QA team in an agile development environment
I'm currently working on a small team of a few developers, but even a small team of productive developers can develop a lot of functionality in one iteration (2 weeks in our case). We don't have a QA ...
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Documentation tool in Session-Based Test Management (SBTM)?
I wonder if anyone have experience of a tool for session-based testing?
Nowadays we use SharePoint lists where we can write down our session plus other relevant info about the session (requirement, ...
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How to Sell the Software Engineer in Test Position?
I am raising a question I'm sure some of you had to tackle or will tackle soon. More and more software
projects are adopting the test automation approach. Test automation can be achieve in multiple ...
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Timing of development and testing in agile environment
We currently have a two week sprint and we seem have issues with timing between testing and development. We have (nearly) daily releases to a test environment. We stage our release about 1.5 days ...
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Test case design standards- friend or foe?
Currently we use an agile team based approach to testing, where each team is responsible for their specific area of a product. While we have found this to be effective and easily manageable, over ...
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Test Automation in Agile?
Since Agile is iterative and many test-last tools are record and playback-style, and therefore can't really be applied in an Agile environment, this brings up a few issues.
the target for test is ...
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Who writes stories and tests in Agile? BA or tester?
I am currently a business analyst, but increasingly as I am working on agile projects. I am including test cases as acceptance criteria for my user stories. I am also interested in becoming more ...
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When should I do regression testing during each sprint?
I am in a small Agile development team with no automated testing. We use Scrumwise to keep up with development. The above answers address the question with automated tests and hardening testing at the ...
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Making scrum-fall work for the short-term
Our team is in an annoying situation: Our corporation is in a period of transition that will probably last another 3 to 6 months after a merger between two companies with very different philosophies. ...
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Difference between “Testing Behaviour” and “Test Case”
I'm new to software testing and would like to know the difference between "test case" and "testing behavior".
For example, a registration form on the web has the following fields:
-Name:
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Running Selenium test on TFS
I am currently working on implementing UI tests of .NET web application using Selenium RC.
The tests are now coming together and I am beginning to look at how these will be incorporated into TFS. ...
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What should be a role of a QA person who is doing Pair Testing with a Developer before code commit?
In my previous company we had a practice of doing smoke testing for 10 minutes before code commit by the developer. A QA need to sit with the associate developer and need to perform a quick smoke ...
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How do you adapt agile testing techniques to a regulated industry?
The StackExchange search seems to think this is a subjective question. I'm not sure about that. It seems pretty straightforward.
Agile methodologies of software development involve more than just ...
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The role of a software tester in an agile environment?
What would you say was the role of a software tester in an agile environment?
Is it just testing and logging bugs or is it more important to work closely with the project architects and developers to ...
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How in depth does a test plan have to be in agile environment?
I am currently working in a small agile team and I am trying to decide if a test plan is worth creating or if it is then what to include. Currently working on a story that I believe could do with some ...
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Separate tasks between development and QA
As my company begins its first agile project, I'm wondering if it would be easier to have separate tasks for QA and development for each story/requirement. Is it a cleaner process or will the lack of ...
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How do you manage large sets of Acceptance Criteria?
Where I work we've recently made the switch to SCRUM. We've gone through the usual problem involved in such a transition from Waterfall but, overall, we now have a functional Agile/SCRUM approach.
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What options are available in the career path of a tester?
I am an ISTQB Foundation Certified Tester and am looking at attaining either the Certified Agile Tester (CAT) certification or the ISTQB Intermediate Certificate to add to my skills and experience to ...
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Testing for SU Sprints
In an agile environment, for sprints for small updates, what approaches to testing are recommended? Do we just do exploratory testing after the SUT has been built before releasing it or do we do both ...
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How to organize Test Plans in Microsoft Test Manager
Question: for those of you who create Test Plans based on product area rather than per iteration, why? And for those of you who create new, fresh Test Plans based on your release cycle (iteration / ...
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Applying Agile methodology - Testing /QA in Infrastructure Projects
What advice do you have for promoting Agile methodology in delivering Infrastructure projects.
Can this be done to good advantage for Quality assurance purposes or are infrastructure projects too ...
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What should be a ideal Bug Post? [duplicate]
In my career, I have used a variety of issue tracking systems to post bugs. I have written a small article on what should be present ideally in a bug post ...
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Adapting agile testing
I have provided my view points on what is agile testing an what is not agile testing. Would appreciate your views and sharing your agile test adoption experiences
#1. If you follow weekly release ...
