Agile Release Trains (ART) The Agile Release Train (ART) is a long-lived team of Agile teams, which, along with other stakeholders, incrementally develops, delivers, and where applicable operates, one or more solutions in a value stream. Agile Release Trains align teams to a shared business and technology mission. Source: https://www.scaledagileframework.com/agile-release-train/ SAFe A set of organization …
LogiGear Magazine September Issue 2020: Testing Transformations: Modernizing QA in the SDLC
As organizations’ Agile methodologies become mature, one of the trends in software development is for Developers to take on more testing, and are eliminating the QA job function. In this article, written by Michael Hackett, we explore how Devs test, to the misconceptions about Devs & the SDLC in this 1st part of a 2-part …
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There is a growing software development dynamic of teams without Testers. When I first went into Software Quality, I learned one thing right away: My role was user advocate. My main job was to find bugs. This is the Lean principle called Amplified Learning. We learn about behavior by testing. Even then, validation was not …
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 discuss how to use the Agile Quadrant, the significance of Automation in Agile Quadrants and how to use Agile Quadrants to overcome Quality Assurance headaches. Organizations aspire …
There are so many aspects of any job that they don’t teach you about in school, and the Software Engineering field is no different. This is a collection of lessons learned in 5 years as a Software Engineer that are applicable and valuable for anyone to know in the software and technology fields. It took …
Where does QA Fit in Agile? In Agile, QA responsibilities can be overlooked, or missed all-together. In this infographic, learn QA’s role in Agile and how it can bring both stability and relevance to the product. (Please click the image to enlarge this infographic)
Automated Testing is a huge part of DevOps, but without human-performed quality assurance testing, you’re increasing the risk of lower-quality software making it into production. Automated Testing is an essential DevOps practice to increase organizations’ release cadence and code quality. But there are definitely limits to only using Automated Testing. Without human quality assurance (QA) …