Most organizations are Wagile – “Wannabe Agile” – failing to achieve Agile even after investing heavily into Agile Coaches, DevOps Partners and implementing the textbook team structure of a Scrum Master, a Product Owner backed by a Development Team.
mabl’s Lisa Crispin and Qualitest’s Elle Gee and Jamie Phillips join Matt and Michael to share their insights on the good, the bad and the ugly of current Agile adoption and testing.
To evaluate if Scrum is correct for your project, we must determine how to compare the ROI gains by utilizing the more traditional ways of software testing vs. the scrum approach.
Grant Obermaier, Former CEO Qualitest UK, discusses the history of software development, the future of DevOps, and where the two will converge.
How Agile and DevOps are reshaping the industry
The role of the tester is more important than ever as environments and applications are becoming ever more complex. We must test as we go and we must support this through the use of tools as they act as the control panel in our delivery.
Gerie Owens discusses the top three power skills for testers: Communication, Collaboration and Creativity. These skills are critical to being successful for testers.
Collaboration works quickest with a lack of diverse views, but the results may lack the creativity that only comes when considering alternatives.
To keep up with the stresses and agility of continuous integration environments, software vendors are either going to have to keep performing the drudgery of manual testing, or move on to the thrills of visual testing!
DevOps will streamline your IT, make your organisation responsive, break the chains of the IT department and make software testing a value generator instead of a resource drainer. Read more to find out how!
