Software test manager eBook? Don’t treat quality assurance as the final development phase. “Quality assurance is not the last link in the development process. It is one step in the ongoing process of agile software development. Testing takes place in each iteration before the development components are implemented. Accordingly, software testing needs to be integrated as a regular and ongoing element in the everyday development process.” “A good bug report can save time by avoiding miscommunication or the need for additional communication.”
Testers and flexible. Not necessarily two words you expect to see together in the same sentence, but in the QA world let’s face it… things don’t always go to plan. In fact, more often than not things don’t go to plan. Sometimes these things are out of our control and that’s just the way it is. What is stopping you from encouraging your team to try another approach? Trying different approaches may or may not work, but encouraging your team to be flexible and come up with other ideas may give you surprisingly good results.
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Benefit: Your ability to achieve quality is improved because the application development team is not charged with unrealistically perfect expectations. Rather, it is chartered with a definition of quality that fits the given time, resource, and budget constraints. Impact on quality: This improvement will help you meet business requirements and achieve a satisfying user experience. Relevant roles: Business stakeholders and the entire application development team will need to implement this practice. Your user documentation should be tested, too. User manuals are indivisible from software. There’s no software simple to the point where it doesn’t need a user guide. End users are people who can fall under certain categories and be united by the notion of target audience, but, nevertheless, they are still just a bunch of unique human beings. So, some functionality that is clear to one person is rocket science to another. This proves two points: yes, we all need technical documentation so our product is used properly and, yes, this documentation should be approached from many angles and tested thoroughly to be understood by everyone.
Work at home software testing trick for today : With the switch to teleworking we’ve been using Google hangouts with web-cams. We first tried it without webcams but since we’re used to being in the same physical space most days, it has been helpful to see people on the camera. It also forces people to fully engage in the meeting and not be multi-tasking doing other things. So we’d recommend using video and audio if practically possible. The online tools for release and sprint planning we use (SpiraPlan in our case) work just as well in-person as remote, so as long as you’re not relying on physical boards, should be minimal adjustment. If your team is using physical Scrum or Kanban boards, now is a good time to move to an online planning tool. See even more info at https://cania-consulting.com/.