“It’s not only about what you have in your metrics, it’s also about what you leave outside of them.” This is the principle I tried to communicate to an organization I was working with lately. A short post about the importance of defining your metrics correctly and communicating what you want to achieve and what […]
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Agile Thinking instead of Agile Testing
Is there such a thing as Agile Testing? I’m not sure there is… You don’t need to work on an agile team to work and test based on an Agile Thinking mindset.
Teaching programmers to test
By Joel Montvelisky on December 23, 2010 in Agile Testing, Best Practices, Test Management, Testing Tools
Yesterday I started providing short training sessions for agile programmers who need to learn how to test better. Would you trust a programmer to test your application? It’s like asking a Fox to guard the chicken-house, right? Well, sometimes you don’t have a choice, or you do but that choice is to release the application […]
Pair-programming for testers
Last week I took part in my first pair-programming session. Up to now I had done pair-testing many times, so I was aware of the added value from pairing, but somehow I always assumed that as a tester I had little to add to a programming session. Boy, was I wrong?!