Posts Tagged ‘Agile Development’

15+ Sections That Should Be In A Testing Methodology

Posted by Jay Philips On 31 March 2010 View Comments

The testing methodology is very important in any organization. This document lays the foundation for the testing group. It’s main purpose is to set consistency and discipline to the testing process. It guides you through the process by defining why testing is being done, who is testing, what is produced during the various [...]

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What types of documents are needed for software testing?

Posted by Jay Philips On 12 March 2010 View Comments

Software testing is not just limited to testing the application, it also includes documentation. Testing documentation is used for a variety of reasons:

Explains the purpose & goal of testing
Explains will be tested & how
Provide testing results to the project team
Provide testing recommendations to the project team
Ability to go back and determine what was done

So what [...]

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30+ Common Testing Mistakes

Posted by Jay Philips On 25 November 2009 View Comments

I was cleaning out a folder on my machine when I stumbled on an oldie but goodie PDF called “Classic Testing Mistakes” by Brian Marick.
In the paper he states how he breaks the classic mistakes into 5 themes and how to resolve the mistakes:
1. The Role of Testing: who does the testing team serve, and [...]

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15+ Open Source Test Management Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 10 September 2009 View Comments

Test Management tools are very important to any test team. Test teams use these tools to help capture requirements, design test cases, map test cases to requirements, test execution reports and much more. Companies may use one to many tools for this, which range from very expensive to open source. My advice would [...]

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Principles of Agile Software Development

Posted by Jay Philips On 25 November 2008 View Comments

Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presented on the lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners during Agile 2008. For those of you that weren’t able to attend (like me) the video is definitely worth watching.
I thought the video was very good and intuitive for people [...]

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