5 Tips for Getting Software Testing Done in the Scrum Sprint

    Clemens Reijnen   Clemens Reijnen is a management consultant at Sogeti, specializes in Application Lifecycle Management, he gives ALM courses t

Letter from the Editor – September 2021

Integrated teams Something we’ve learned in the Covid-19 pandemic is that we have to work together-whatever together means. Very few teams stayed co

How to Stop “Flying Blind” When Accounting for QA

One of the most common challenges faced by business leaders is the lack of visibility into QA activities. QA leaders have a tough time communicating t

The Midpoint Crisis: How Automation Can Make More Manual Testing Work

Picture a series of sprints: There are a variety of features being developed, with an eye towards having automated tests related to those features. Wo

Glossary March 2021

Scrum Board A Scrum Board is a tool that helps Teams make Sprint Backlog items visible. The board can take many physical and virtual forms but it perf

Developer Testing? What is Testing and QA’s Place? Part 2 of 2

Introduction This article is part 2 of the 2-part series, Developer Testing? What is Testing and QA’s Place? Part 1 explored modern SDLCs, such as A

Developer Testing? What is Testing and QA’s Place? : Part 1 of 2

As organizations’ Agile methodologies become mature, one of the trends in software development is for Developers to take on more testing, and ar

Using Agile Testing Quadrants to Solve Quality Assurance Headaches: Part 1 of 2

This is part 1 of a 2-part series. The 1st part will discuss the culture and mindset around Agile, and how Agile Quadrants are used. Part 2 will discu

Continuous Testing, Part 2: Strategy and Automation Goals for Test Teams

DevOps has been described as Agile on Steroids; DevOps has also been described as Agile for Operations/IT. I like both of those descriptions. Many org