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Does a Scrum team need an Agile Test Lead / Test Manager?
‘Agile Test Lead’; it sounds like a reasonable title, but it could be interpreted as going against agile principles. ‘Test’ smacks of being role specific. Not the kind of separation you want to encourage if you are aiming for a team of multi-disciplined individuals. And ‘Lead’. It doesn’t sound as bad as ‘Manager’, but it still suggests an element of hierarchy, rather than a self-organising team of peers. So why when I Google ‘Agile Test Lead’ does it return so many hits (369,000 to be exact) [...]
An Example of Risk-Based, Cross-Browser Testing on an Agile Project
In its heyday, risk-based testing was the buzz-word of the industry; every tester was talking about it and every project had it as part of their testing strategy (even if it was only given lip-service in a superficial strategy document somewhere). Today, it is all about being lean and agile – testing early, testing often and [...]
Sharing (Behaviour Driven Development) BDD specifications between testers and developers using StoryQ
How test automation with Selenium or Watir can fail
The Testing V-Model Catch-22
Rational Functional Tester (RFT): Test Automation Architecture
Applying the principles of Scrum to testing
When I first started thinking about my presentation for the Software & Systems Quality Conference I found myself drawn to creating a huge list of potential testing documents a test team can create (many of which are ‘management’ and ‘planning’ type documents). Whilst I had initially intended to [...]
How Much Detail Should I Write In My Test Case / Test Script?
As part of continuing to prepare my slides for the UK Software & Systems Quality Conference (to be held in London on the 29th of September, 2008) I have dedicated some time recently to thinking about the factors that affect our written communication needs as testers, and consequently the level of detail [...]
