Agile Testing

8 minute read - Agile

Thoughts and lessons learned from years of Agile Development Consultancy and Mentoring. A Commonsense Video Guide to Agile Software Testing and Development The short video above introduces you to Agile Testing and Alan’s thoughts on how to improve. These are practical and well grounded, often commonsense answers and suggestions. Don’t BE Agile. Instead develop with Agility. Explains the principles of Agile Testing Testing is part of the software development process, we have to learn to craft our approach uniquely for each Agile Project We have to learn the appropriate questions to ask on an Agile Project Explains what a tester actually does How much should you automate on your project?

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Dev Ops Article in May Test Magazine

9 minute read - Dev Ops Agile Published Articles

On the 21st of March I hosted a “Dev Ops and QA” session at the Test Focus Groups in London. This turned into a small 2 page article for Test Magazine in the May 2017 issue. The write up is based on the discussions over the day. I try to summarise what DevOps meant to the people in the meetings, their concerns and some of the experiences we discussed. Some of the features people associate with DevOps being:

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Evil Tester and The Agile Team

3 minute read - Agile

Agile gets everywhere and it is not easy. It takes time. It takes practice. What will a tester do? Everyone on the team has to adapt to the particular dynamic on the team - and that includes testers - so answering questions like “What should a tester do on an Agile project” becomes really hard. I can think of some things that a tester will probably have to do, and I can think of some things they will probably find consistently hard, but I can’t give an absolute answer to that question.

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