How to Maximize the Benefits of Agile Solutions
Agile has been around long enough for most people to understand that by the pure iterative nature of Agile, that realising benefits and getting your product to market early brings great rewards, not just in reduced cost terms but also in time to market and market capitalisation. Being first to market can bring home the lion share of new customers or revenue.
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Topics:
Software Testing,
Benefits of Agile
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
.
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Topics:
Software Testing,
nFocus
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).
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Topics:
Software Testing,
Software Failures
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.
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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.
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Topics:
Software Testing,
Testing,
DevOps and Testing,
test automation,
DevOps
Exploring the Benefits of Testing Consultancy
It wasn’t that long ago that the World Wide Web was invented, 1990 to be precise. Following that historic invention came the online retailers and online banks to much appreciation of those of us who are pressed for time or simply want to search the web for inspiration. Most high street banks and retailers now report that their online store or bank is their largest customer touch point and real focus on it being the best and most robust is very much in demand.
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Topics:
Software Testing,
Test Management,
testing consultancy
Test, Test and Test Again
Here's the second in our series of bitesize blog articles on Agile Test Strategy. If you missed the first one, you can read it here.
Now that you are ‘Ready’ to test, you want to test as often and effectively as you can; not only will this increase the chance that you'll find defects but will improve application quality. In the short-term your costs will increase as you’ll need to set up a defined framework and create re-usable test artefacts…
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Topics:
Software Testing,
Scrum,
Agile Test Strategy
Agile Test Strategy Part One
There have been challenges in the adoption of the Agile principles (an Agile Test Strategy) and Scrum Framework particularly with poor quality of the delivered software. This has resulted in delays and a mismatch of the expectations of stakeholders and delivery teams. There is no specific mention of testing or quality assurance in Agile or Scrum; it is implied as an integral part of the principles and framework. This has caused some confusion resulting in inconsistent approaches to quality management and testing. Often formal testing has been reduced to ad hoc ‘try it and see’ during a sprint. This loses the testing rigour that delivers quality by use of industry accepted full lifecycle testing.
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Topics:
Agile,,
Software Testing,
Scrum,
Agile Test Strategy
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