Nurturing Future Testing Experts: Recognising the Accomplishments
It was with great pleasure that I had the honour of attending our apprentice’s graduation ceremony at St George’s Hall in Bewdley.
Apprentices from
nFocus Testing have been honoured at a graduation ceremony. The event was attended by many family, friends, trainers and assessors from all over the UK. It was a delight to see them receive their awards for their outstanding efforts. Two of the apprentices have also been shortlisted and are finalists in the Mobile Testing Project of the Year at the
European Software Testing Awards
.
Read More
Topics:
Software Testing,
nFocus
Unlocking the Secrets of Agile Testing Interview Questions
Hiring a team that consists of qualified people that are well versed in Agile principles is extremely important for any software development team. But the task of interviewing and hiring good Agile testers often proves to be difficult. With that in mind, we've created a new white paper with 10 great questions you can ask when conducting interviews, and a guide to the kind of responses we would expect. You can download the full white paper here, with a sneak peak below.
Read More
Topics:
Agile,,
Agile Testing Interview Questions
How to Maximize the Benefits of Agile Testing
For years, good testers were urging their Project Managers to build plans that allowed them to test early and test often. Agile delivery forces that model and so problems can be found and remedied quicker, moving the project to faster completion. Involving testers in the entire project leads to a new level of synergy that can deliver software products with a high level of quality.
Read More
Topics:
Benefits of Agile
Supporting DevOps through Testing – It’s not just about Automating Tests!
On Tuesday 13th September, nFocus' very own
Danny Crone will be speaking for
Microsoft Tech Days! He will be delivering a session on DevOps and Automation, the title and synopsis of which you can find below.
Read More
Topics:
DevOps and Testing,
test automation,
DevOps
Don't Let Software Failures Keep Your Company Grounded - Literally
High profile technical glitches seem to be dominating the headlines recently, but for a company to suffer three software failures in as many months and bring untold misery to people all around the world is no laughing matter. British Airways new ‘FLY' check in system, suffered a global issue and many flights were delayed and planes literally grounded (again, ahem).
Read More
Topics:
Software Testing,
Software Failures
Agile Strategies for Managing a Marketing Team with Scrum
As a multi-award winning software testing consultancy, nFocus live and breathe Agile. So much so that we decided to run our Marketing Team using Scrum. If you're interesting in learning about the benefits of adopting Agile from a testing perspective, check out this white paper instead.
Read More
Topics:
Agile,,
Scrum,
Testing,
Agile Test Strategy,
Benefits of Agile
The Impact of Change and Future Technology
Although time seems to move fast and we soon become accustomed to everyday objects and technology it was less than 10 years ago that Apple launched the iPhone; since then we’ve seen an influx of smart phones and tablets. The way we shop has shifted from the traditional high street to most retailer’s largest store now being their online one. Literally everything we do has some form of technology playing apart in the background.
Read More
Topics:
Software Testing,
Future Tech
Supporting DevOps through Testing
"Let's start with the aims of DevOps. It's certainly a culture and a practice that accentuates the collaboration and communication of software developers and other IT professionals. While still being important to automate the process of software delivery and infrastructure changes; it certainly tries to foster both a culture and environment where building testing and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently and more reliably.
Read More
Topics:
Software Testing,
Testing,
DevOps and Testing,
test automation,
DevOps
What to Look Out For
I’m sure that as you read this you can think of many times recently when you have heard about an IT application that has crashed or failed due to technical issues ….! There are lots of real world examples with banking, baggage and border control issues all making very public news recently.
Read More
Topics:
Peformance Testing
Agile Test Strategy
In today's post I thought it would be useful to consider Agile Test Strategy and the quality challenges associated with implementing Agile and Scrum. If you have time, we would also recommend taking a read of the white paper - The quality challenges associated with implementing Agile and Scrum.
Read More
Topics:
Agile,,
Agile Test Strategy
.png)
