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Will implementing Agile generally improve code quality?
Tl;DR: Yes, it should if you practice technical excellence. Sadly often it doesn't.
The current most popular Agile framework Scrum mainly focuses on process quality and project communication. If you ...
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When writing automation, is programming required? If so, at what level?
Well I believe nothing can replace manual testing.
Because in automation you can check what is expected, not what isn't expected. So manual testing, exploratory testing is important and will stay.
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Will implementing Agile generally improve code quality?
we DO want our customers to be aware of various traps when
implementing Agile as well as false expectations.
Rather than pitching Agile (noun) as a product, sell best practices and continuous ...
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Will implementing Agile generally improve code quality?
I have had a few interesting stories to tell:
For a company I was working for, the team leader (also the scrum master) would ask for an extremely detailed report during a morning standup. Our stand-...
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Will implementing Agile generally improve code quality?
There really is no link between 'agile' and code quality.
At the end of the day, you have the same programmers writing the same code.
Scrum or (Lean or Kanban) is to do with how they spilt it up, ...
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Detecting tests that will never fail
Another idea which we have not yet applied in practice is Mutation Testing.
Mutation testing (or Mutation analysis or Program mutation) is used to
design new software tests and evaluate the ...
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How many test cases can I run if I'm using domain testing?
Domain testing is an umbrella term for Equivalent partition and boundary value analysis. Here, we try to cover all the available behaviours of a system by using the least number of inputs. Here domain ...
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Detecting tests that will never fail
Your situation is there because of Technical Debt. Everything you pointed out is controlled easily enough via Continual Review of your test suites. The programming world has words for this "...
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When writing automation, is programming required? If so, at what level?
TL;DR: Yes, test automation means programming. If you want to be a good test automator you will need premium coding skills.
So if I switch to automation testing then do I have to code?
No, there ...
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Will implementing Agile generally improve code quality?
I believe it will depend because the definition of quality comes from the business
Let me try and give three examples where the answers might be "No", "Yes" and "Maybe".
NASA - Will the agile ...
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How to perform static code analysis?
Jenkins is a continuous integration server, also known as a build server. It takes the source code and builds it, runs tests and execute any other commands you see fit. Afterwards it can report about ...
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I want to know working of sonarqube
Here is the step-by-step procedure to perform the scenario:
Setup a Jenkins server if already not using.
Goto plugin-manager of Jenkins to install “SonarQube Plugin”.
Goto “System-configuration” of ...
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Detecting tests that will never fail
I read somewhere a suggestion that any test which did not failed for a year should be a candidate for elimination.
Not automatically eliminated - maybe for some critical functionality you want ...
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Detecting tests that will never fail
I would like to present a generic system under test and its test suite as below:
Test suite injects inputs into system under test
System under test generates outputs based on inputs from test suite
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When writing automation, is programming required? If so, at what level?
The questions posted have been answered. I would like to add my perspective because I have tested software since 2002, and I don't have programming skills.
I've worked to garner respect and trust ...
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When writing automation, is programming required? If so, at what level?
There are a few tools that do not require much programming skills, for example
Selenium IDE
Test Complete
CodedUI
They are record-replay tools. Basically, they record your mouse move-click actions, ...
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When writing automation, is programming required? If so, at what level?
So if I switch to automation testing then do I have to code? If yes then what level of coding will be required ? Being a person with less interest in programming, should I go for automation testing?
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How to handle Javascript dropdown menu in Selenium?
First, you need to open up the dropdown menu, then select the desired menu item.
The markup is not the easiest to work with because of absence of data-oriented id, name or class attributes. But, we ...
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How to make the case for code quality in a SAFe environment
Although I think SAFe is not Agile at all, it just brings new words for the same roles, processes, and probably no change, like you're describing.
But SAFe does mandate Built-in Quality as one of its ...
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How to plan selenium automation of webapplication when more than 1 person is involved
Another way to phrase this question is, "How do multiple developers use the same code base in their work?"
Selenium automation is just using an open source library to set up testing. It's ...
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Expecting Null equal to 'Some Value' in Protractor
Protractors getAttribute('firstName') gets the value of the attribute firstName, not the value of the input. Your example element does not have an attribute "firstName". It has attributes id, pattern, ...
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How to improve the code quality mindset?
Does the code reviewer with coder go through the motion of going over code together and ask questions(from a checklist) in a fix time slot along with the group of 2-3 developers(not from the same team,...
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How to do unit test of 16 digit Generated Random number
You do not need any special tool. Just pure Java and some maths (or minimal search-over-the-internet-or-at-least-over-the-stackexchange skills).
Here is your demo.
You only need to rework it for your ...
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Detecting tests that will never fail
Based on a number of questions you have submitted I think your best course of action is to engage with a company that specializes in Quality Assurance.
This question, like many of the questions you ...
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Detecting tests that will never fail
One system I worked on had a 100% failure framework, (actually it was a set of stubs output by the design tool), that was run as a part of the automated test suite, (Jenkins), with an evaluation ...
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Detecting tests that will never fail
I've recently opined, provocatively, that a test that never fails, adds no value.
https://durrantm.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/a-new-way-to-think-about-tests/
At a more practical level I look to use ...
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How to perform static code analysis?
SonarLint can be fully integrated with the IntelliJ or Eclipse without any difficulties.
https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarlint-intellij
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