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Streamlining user acceptance testing (UAT) with Agile
Organizations that implement successful user acceptance testing can greatly reduce errors and business risks.
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Eight software quality metrics that foster ALM success
Software consultant Nari Kannan reveals eight metrics that are most important in ALM in this tip.
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Acceptance test-driven development: Customer-focused
Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) is a technique used to bring customers into the test design process before coding has begun.
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Devising a test automation strategy: Getting started
In this tip by Agile expert Lisa Crispin, learn the important steps to move your organization forward with a well-planned automation strategy.
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Agile testing quadrants: Guiding managers and teams
Agile expert Lisa Crispin explains the four Agile testing quadrants and how they can guide managers and development teams in creating a test strategy.
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Software development bugs: Identify and prevent them
With strong Agile practices such as unit testing, code reviews and proper attention to requirements, bugs can be prevented or found early in the application lifecycle.
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Scrum vs. Kanban: Comparing approaches
In this tip, we talk about the differences in Scrum and Kanban, comparing and contrasting these two approaches used in software development.
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Test automation tools for mobile devices
Software consultant Nari Kannan writes about the challenges in automating the testing of mobile apps and some popular solutions that are available for them today.
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Wireframing tools for tablets and other mobile devices
Software consultant Nari Kannan discusses wireframing tools that help mobile and tablet app designers mockup and lay out workflow and user interface designs.
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ALM: Managing offshore test teams
This tip emphasizes expressing clear expectations throughout the application life cycle. Learn how to choose the most effective means of communication for the situation, how to motivate team member...
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Automation testing: Seven tips for test design
In this tip, Chris McMahon describes seven tips for testing leaders that will ensure you are designing your automation tests correctly so that they will be maintainable and catch the bugs before th...
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Collaboration tools and face-to-face teamwork
Have we progressed to the point where we can work just as productively in a distributed fashion as when we’re co-located? Agile expert Lisa Crispin examines this question from all angles, exploring...
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ALM communication methods in a distributed world
In this tip, author and consultant Steffan Surdek will tell you the about the best communication tools for distributed development teams.
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Collaboration tools and social media in ALM: 10 uses
Software consultant Nari Kannan outlines ten ways you can leverage online collaboration tools and social media applications effectively.
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Product management: Using social media
In this tip, requirements expert Scott Sehlhorst explores the many uses of social media and social networks for improving product management.
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Ten best collaboration tools for business and IT
Software consultant Nari Kannan writes about ten collaborative and social media tools you can leverage to make sure that IT is tuned in to the needs of business and delivers the needed results.
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Wikis for Agile ALM collaboration
In this tip, SSQ contributor Chris McMahon describes step by step how tags can be used in wikis to manage Agile user stories from conception through deployment.
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Social media: Businesses using collaborative tools
In this article, industry experts offer their insights into how businesses can capitalize on the many uses of social media and collaborative tools.
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ALM from a distance: Remote collaboration tools
In this tip, consultant Brad Swanson describes ALM tools and techniques that will allow your team to communicate effectively through the development lifecycle, regardless of where they’re physicall...
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Lean principles for defect tracking
In this tip, author Paul E. McMahon describes how Lean principles can be used to help determine when defect tracking is appropriate for your organization and what type of data is important to collect.
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Software testers: Get a professional development plan
STAREAST 2013 participants offer advice to software testers on setting up their company's professional development plan.
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Tips for database testing from the cloud
What is database testing and how is it important to your application and the company? Get tips to effectively test when data is hosted in the cloud.
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Software development best practice: Threat modeling
Early in the software development cycle ask, Who might attack the application? How would they do it? What are they after? This is threat modeling.
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Making multi-team Agile management work
Amy Reichert explores the Agile management challenge of leading more than one team at the same time and offers advice on making it work.