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Moving Beyond Developer, Tester Roles – The Era of a Learning Person

by ShriKant Vashishtha Leave a Comment

More teams I work with, I face almost similar kind of challenge wherein team members want to remain confined to their roles. They continue to work solo. No pair programming, swarming or mobbing.

Why?

Because their skill sets don’t match. One such team have two iOS developers, 2 pythons developers and one tester. They can divide the PBIs into subtasks but they’ll continue to work solo as their skills don’t match.

It seemed like a valid point to me at first.

But then I thought a little deeper. Why exactly do we have developer or tester role to begin with? Aren’t they actually skills?

Considering myself a developer, do I need to be a developer only throughout my life? Can’t I test as well? Of course I can.

Similarly if I am a Python or a backend developer, nobody really constrain me to remain a backend developer throughout my life.

But then these roles seem to be embedded in our mindset. Ever thought why?
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The Secret Mantra for Agile Success

by ShriKant Vashishtha 3 Comments

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People move to Agile, go through required training and start working in projects. After a period of time, if you ask any team member, “what exactly is Agile?”, she’ll start talking about Scrum ceremonies, embracing change, shorter feedback cycle etc. Even after implementing all these aspects, you’ll find issues in that project.

Why?

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Traditional Testing will be Dead Soon!!

by ShriKant Vashishtha 12 Comments

Repeated software-development tasks are becoming automated through the application of Continuous Delivery and DevOps. If developers are taking more and more testing responsibilities into their hands, I wonder what will be the role of traditional (manual **only**) testing and testers moving forward?

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Agile Testing is achieving quality in everything

by Avienaash Shiralige 1 Comment

We know “Testing As An Activity” is important, and why we should all test. The old axiom that “Testers Test and Programmers Code” is so outdated now and everyone needs to change. Testers are the testing experts in a team, and can help enable the whole team to own quality but they are certainly not the only one’s who should be testing. Like, developers need to contribute towards testing by unit testing their code and also pair testing to minimize defects and minimize test – defect-fix cycle.

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Testing in agile, addresses the processes that produce software and also products of those processes. Hence I ask my teams to not just focus on validating software after development, but also check processes that produce software like, quality of stories, requirement/impact analysis, acceptance criteria(using behavior-driven-development to address “3 amigos problem), and more.

Take a look at our agile testing workshop which is a detailed 2 day course which focusses on test automation strategies, lean approach to defect prevention, various tools and techniques to automate, BDD(behavior-driven-development) and how to use various frameworks – Linear Scripting, Test Library Architecture, Data-Driven Testing, Keyword/Table-Driven and Hybrid automation frameworks.

Agile Testing: An Approach to Achieve Quality Sooner

by Avienaash Shiralige Leave a Comment

Often I hear from testing folks one question. How can I apply Agile for testing? Local optimisation has been the bane of software development – viewing it from his/her activity perspective and not just as a whole. Let’s see how agile principles can be seen through testing angle?

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