Letter from the Editor – March 2015

I spend about half my work time in the role of a consultant assessing, auditing and examining software development team practices and processes for the purpose of process improvement. I am regularly surprised to find teams that lack basic skills, management support, tools, information, access to users, Product Owners and to developers. And yet they’re …

Test Methods and Strategies Glossary

Test Strategy A test strategy describes how the test effort will reach the quality goals set out by the development team. Sometimes called the test approach, test strategy includes, among other things, the testing objective, methods and techniques of testing and the testing environment.

Action-Based Testing, a New Perspective

The best part of Action-Basted Testing is that it is for thinking people. It is intelligent and creative. It is a much saner way to evolve a testing project. All testers and quality engineers hear about Action-based testing (ABT) or keyword-driven testing somewhere. There are automation tools focused on keywords and actions. Maybe people have …

Four Fundamental Requirements of Successful Testing in the Cloud – Part I

Internet-based per-use service models are turning things upside down in the software development industry, prompting rapid expansion in the development of some products and measurable reduction in others. (Gartner, August 2008) This global transition toward computing “in the Cloud” introduces a whole new level of challenge when it comes to software testing.

Four Fundamental Requirements of Successful Testing in the Cloud – Part II

Internet-based per-use service models are turning things upside down in the software development industry, prompting rapid expansion in the development of some products and measurable reduction in others. (Gartner, August 2008) This global transition toward computing “in the Cloud” introduces a whole new level of challenge when it comes to software testing.