Why is User Story not part of core Scrum? User story is one of the popular way of writing requirement in Agile. Lot of Agilists prefer the User Story format. However, that is not the only way of writing requirements in Agile projects. You could write requirements in...
Agile Tester Skills
Agile Tester Skills In an Agile testing team, testers must closely collaborate with all other team members and with business stakeholders. This has a number of implications in terms of agile tester skills must have and the activities they perform within an Agile team....
Organization Options for Agile Testing
Organization Options for Agile Testing Some of the options while deciding the strategy for structuring of Agile Testing teams are as follows Testers Embedded into the Development Teams : Independent testers are often more effective at finding defects. In some Agile...
Deployment Pipeline
Deployment Pipeline A Deployment pipeline is an important concept in Continuous Delivery. In Deployment pipeline we break the build process into distinct stages In each stage we get feedback to move into the next stage. It is a collaborative effort between various...
DevOps Perspective of Infrastructure and Environments
DevOps Perspective of Infrastructure and Environments There are three steps to deploying software Creating and Managing the infrastructure in which your application will run (hardware, networking, middleware, external services) Installing correct version of your...
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration is an enormous step forward in productivity and quality for most projects that adopt it. It ensures that the teams working together to create large and complex systems can do so with higher level of confidence and control...
DevOps Tool – Cucumber
DevOps Tool – Cucumber DevOps Tool – Cucumber is a tool based on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework which is used to write acceptance tests for web application. It allows automation of functional validation in easily readable and understandable...
DevOps Toolchain
DevOps Toolchain DevOps is all about how businesses must be results-oriented to meet evolving customer demand and gain greater market share. Today’s marketplace is connected, always on and increasingly competitive. Companies are adopting what we call an “as-a-service”...
Agile Testing Quadrant
Agile Testing Quadrant Many kinds of testing exist. Brian Marick came up with the Agile Testing Quadrant as shown below. In this diagram, he categorized tests according to whether they are business facing or technology facing and whether they support the development...
Agile Test Pyramid
Agile Test Pyramid A software system may be tested at different levels. Typical test levels are, from the base of the pyramid to the top, unit, integration, system, and acceptance. The test pyramid emphasizes having a large number of tests at the lower levels (bottom...