Trending

NOW TRENDING AT QA VALLEY

Measuring the Performance of Your Operations Center

Many organizations have problems with consistently tracking and measuring system outages. Issues aren't logged, admins make changes to systems without going through change management, and a high number of issues turn out to be recurring problems. Implementing a performance measurement process calculates system reliability and can help you improve consistency..

read more

Why Code Quality is Vital in the World of Database DevOps

Everyone understands the importance of code quality for applications, particularly when DevOps results in releases becoming faster and faster, reducing the room for error. The same issues increasingly apply to databases, which are a vital part of DevOps workflows. Fail to integrate the database into DevOps and you'll face bottlenecks.

read more

Keeping pace with DevOps: How testing teams can deliver

The need for speed is nothing new in software testing. The application of agile and lean approaches to development have put testing teams under pressure to test functionality as quickly as it comes out, and with DevOps creating synergy between development and business operations, testing teams have had to meet.

read more

How cross-functional dev teams can work more efficiently

More businesses are using cross-functional teams to remain competitive. Still, these teams are ineffective if the proper strategies aren’t in place to maximize productivity. Building innovative products requires organization and strong communication skills, but that doesn't mean these qualities are only found in traditional work spaces. By fostering a collaborative.

read more

Shifting Testing Left Is a Team Effort

There is a lot of talk in the testing world about shifting left. Basically, “shift left” refers to moving the test process to an earlier point in the development process, independent of the development approach. This article explores a case in which shift-left has been applied, and the lesson is.

read more

The State of Agile QA: The Times Are a Changin’

Quality assurance has long been an important component of an agile team. But times change. The introduction of new capabilities like ubiquitous cloud computing, containerization and microservices changes the way we think about QA. Here's how. (more…)

3 Keys to Mastering Test-Driven Development

From his decade of teaching thousands of professional software developers how to be effective with test-driven development, David Bernstein has learned that there are three key ingredients for mastering TDD: understanding what it really is, making code reliably testable, and getting hands-on experience. Let’s look at each of these factors.

read more

The Question — Are There Any Software Testing Superheroes?

I was tidying up some old papers and found an article I had forgotten I had written. "The Question: Are there any Software Testing Superheroes?" This appeared in the Eurostar magazine that was handed out at Eurostar 2013. I can't find any mention of this in my blog or websites.

read more

How the role of software testing is evolving

Imagine this all-too-common scenario: Software testers are asked to check new application functionality after developers have deemed it “done.” They have a list of actions to perform, and they manually click through each and every step—trying to faithfully follow all instructions and methodically document the outcome of each step, in.

read more