28
votes
Accepted
QA gets all the work at the end of the sprint
Get the whole team to work on the problem.
Given the arrangement you've discussed clearly the team needs to look at options to resolve this. The problem itself seems fairly endemic in all of the ...
- 25.2k
19
votes
Accepted
How to deal with or prevent idle in the test team?
"there is nothing to test"
That is a strong statement.
I like to use James Bach's definition of testing:
Testing is the process of evaluating a product by learning about it
through exploration ...
- 11k
13
votes
The test team as an enemy of development? And how can this be avoided?
Get a good Scrum Master who can convince the organization that Scrum teams should not be depended on other teams to deliver shippable software. It is an impediment he/she should resolve.
Traditional ...
- 32.6k
10
votes
Separate QA v.s. Scrum Team Member - How should QA be involved?
My ex-client went through a very similar thing. When I started, QA weren't invited to walkthroughs, project meetings, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, etc., and developers were estimating the time ...
- 2,558
10
votes
How to deal with or prevent idle in the test team?
In addition to some of the other suggestions, you could consider a few other options:
Build/run load tests for new/recent work (given the maturity of your test automation you may already have this ...
- 31.5k
9
votes
Accepted
The test team as an enemy of development? And how can this be avoided?
I've tested in the sprint + 1 system under the SAFe framework. The framework does not specific this but lends itself to doing it for organizations coming from waterfall.
Mu suggestion is:
stop it
...
- 25.2k
8
votes
Accepted
What changes for testers when they are testing in agile environments?
Classic testing is Quality Assurance
Agile Testing is Quality Engineering
Quality Assurance
Traditionally most testing as done at the end of the development. It asks if the product that has been ...
- 25.2k
8
votes
Separate QA v.s. Scrum Team Member - How should QA be involved?
I've been there. This is my experience:
Start with - Review all the documentation you're given. Chances are good something critical has been overlooked because Project Managers tend to focus only on ...
- 31.5k
8
votes
QA gets all the work at the end of the sprint
Great Communication Brings Great Results
Being last in line, QAs keep facing this repetitively. QA should proactively communicate delays and respective risks to stakeholders.
I’ve never seen any agile ...
- 1,835
7
votes
Accepted
Area of responsibility of a test manager within the agile process?
One of the foundation principles of the Agile Manifesto is self-organizing teams:
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from
self-organizing teams.
PS: It includes processes
...
- 11k
6
votes
Have test cases evaluated by everyone in the Scrum team? Including the developers?
Use tests to drive code design.
This is the difference between using tests as quality checks, post development instead of using tests to uncover and drive the design up-front.
"Testing by itself ...
- 25.2k
6
votes
QA gets all the work at the end of the sprint
In the spirit of working in a multi-disciplinary team, I think developers should participate in the QA process if there's a backlog of work, (or even if there isn't).
I think it's bad practise for the ...
- 161
5
votes
Separate QA v.s. Scrum Team Member - How should QA be involved?
As your question is tagged Scrum I will try to answer it within that context.
It starts with the Scrum's Definition of Done:
When a Product Backlog item or an Increment is described as “Done”,
...
- 32.6k
5
votes
QA Steps to move sprint story from Ready for QA to Done?
You don't wait for a sprint to start before doing test work. You should have been present during the planning of the ticket and given feedback on the feature. Were all possible scenarios spec'd out? ...
- 764
5
votes
Should code reviewer read user story COAs?
Of-course, understanding the goal of an user-story before coding review gives a lot of context. In an Scrum team I would expect all team-members to already understand the acceptance criteria as ...
- 32.6k
5
votes
Multiple Scrum Teams - How Can I Make Use of QA?
Now QA is not the only person responsible for the quality of the product, instead, QA's are taking up the role of a person who drives the quality process inside the team. Some things which you can do/...
5
votes
How to deal with or prevent idle in the test team?
If you have a set of Regression Tests, testers can start automating them starting with which are easiest to automate. This will save you a lot of time in the long run during Regression Testing. Of ...
5
votes
QA gets all the work at the end of the sprint
We have an issue
Issue for who? Sprints are a completely artificial unit of time usually set up by managers who do not do your work anyway. If you're breaking this artificial deadline but the clients ...
- 4,548
5
votes
QA gets all the work at the end of the sprint
There are a few different ways to approach this problem.
From a Scrum perspective, your Development Team does not have sub-teams. You may have specialists, such as people who specialize in testing, ...
- 1,581
5
votes
QA gets all the work at the end of the sprint
Tell your devs and management that a Backlog Item isn't "done" until it is tested. So PBI don't get "done" at the end of the sprint, they remain unfinished because the team "...
- 450
5
votes
QA gets all the work at the end of the sprint
Not Actually Agile
As is common, people have taken a waterfall process and slapped an Agile label on it while being un-agile. The classical Agile model doesn't have a separate QA team at all. There is ...
- 159
5
votes
What are some Career options after QA Testing field?
Could you please throw some light on some Career path that Senior/Lead QA can take?
The answer to this can be quite personal as it's based on what you like doing and your own personality.
Do you ...
- 2,250
4
votes
The test team as an enemy of development? And how can this be avoided?
The cynic in me feels that if developers could be relied on to detect & fix their bugs as they go along then separate testing teams would never have been invented in the first place.
Much ...
- 41
4
votes
How to handle bottle necks in agile testing procedures
I found myself in that very same position last year. With a team of around 12 devs and only 2 QAs we used up all our time testing features and couldn't do the (IMHO) more important work of improving ...
- 141
4
votes
Accepted
Are there generally accepted standards for frequency of bugs?
There is no general guideline for this.
This depends on how experienced/good the devs are, how new the technology is they might be using, how complex or new the application is they are building, etc.
...
- 321
4
votes
How to integrate 4 QA engineers into 4 dev (Scrum) teams?
You have Scrum in your tags, so the first point worth noting is that Scrum requires cross-functional teams. I assume QA is required to deliver product to production, so that skill needs to be in the ...
- 738
4
votes
Should bugs be story-point estimated?
There's no one right answer.
I'm not entirely sure that I'd buy the developers' argument that it is too difficult to assess the difficulty of fixing a bug. The very same argument could be said about ...
- 1,581
4
votes
Acceptance Testing & Scrum - How do you handle bugs that occur during acceptance testing in parallel to ongoing/upcoming sprints?
Henrik Kniberg is generally right. When a defect is found after the work is considered "Done" and is in some downstream activity, like UAT, put any issues found on the Product Backlog and ...
- 1,581
3
votes
Accepted
What timeframe should be scheduled for exploratory testing?
Ranjeet listed pretty much every point, my 5 cents :
The first priority should be given to Business Value, followed by a security vulnerability, complexity and usability.
But one thing to note is, ...
3
votes
Separate QA v.s. Scrum Team Member - How should QA be involved?
The biggest issue is people perception and that is what needs to be changed. There are a few hurdles that need to be overcome.
Hubris among development
Value of QA
Teamwork
These are not so much ...
- 1,693
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible