Testing in an Agile context
In traditional, waterfall-style work there are often watertight barriers separating requirements, development, and testing. Someone writes the requirements, another develops, and someone else tests....
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Scrum vs Kanban
Which would you choose: a fork and knife, a spoon, or chopsticks? Which one utensil would you choose? It depends on the meal you’re about to eat, of course! The same argument applies to deciding...
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What is Tour Testing? A Structured Approach to Exploratory Testing
What’s the first thing you do when you visit a new city? Do you go straight to the tourist bureau to ask for information and pick up a map, or do just walk into the crowd and let your instincts take...
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How to set goals for session-based testing (SBT)
The previous blog post introduced tour testing as a way testers can perform exploratory testing in a structured manner. In this article, I bring you a second approach that has been devised by testers...
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Use Story Mapping to Power up Your User Stories
User stories are an incredibly useful way to build a better product backlog, one that is user-centric and describes software requirements in a practical, actionable way. But user stories on their own...
View ArticleAgile Management of Work and People for Test Managers
(And Testers Aspiring To Become Managers) The changing role of test managers today The agile transformation has ripped apart the organisation as we knew it and changed into a totally different animal....
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Combining Agile and Waterfall Methodologies: Overkill or Genius Idea?
What testing managers should know about hybrid management Waterfall? Are we allowed to use the W-word any more? Traditional methodology has received a serious thrashing from agile devotees in the...
View ArticleHow managers help themselves and others embrace organisational change
A few pointers on surviving the roller-coaster ride that is business The age of the monolithic company is over. The currents of time have that eroded to the ground, and what’s left is the...
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What the ReQtest team has been up to this summer
The guys at the office have been busy throughout this summer. Our team hit the road and dropped by two testing conferences taking place in Norway and Sweden, where they took part in debates with...
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ReQtest’s Ulf Eriksson speaks at SAST 20th anniversary event
Ulf (right) sitting on the panel of four experts chosen by SAST for their 20th year anniversary event. The Swedish Association for Software Testing (SAST) is a non-profit organisation for testers in...
View ArticleFour Trends Affecting Test Management Right Now
Last week we shared the news that I’ve been asked to join three other testing experts to deliver a presentation at the 20th year anniversary celebration of the Swedish Association for Software Testing...
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5 Tips to Write Foolproof Test Cases Every Time
Test cases are often written so simply that someone could walk in off the street and use them to test your system. But honestly – how often do you literally bring folks in off the street to run your...
View ArticleHow to Build a Product Vision Box and Clarify Your Software Goals
At the basis of any innovation, whether in the arts, science or technology, lies the creator’s vision. In software development terms, it’s the concept of what the final product will look like that...
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10 of the worst requirements I have ever seen
How hard is it to write good requirements documentation? In this blog post I share the 10 of the worst possible examples of documentation, which haunt me to this day. Click Here To Create Your First...
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5 Steps To Make Exploratory Testing Work For You
When it comes to choosing the testing methodology for a project, research shows that there is no one method that is better than the rest. As an experienced tester, more often than not it comes down to...
View Article3 Top Challenges Testers Face When Doing Exploratory Testing
These days, it is fashionable to say that your team practices Exploratory Testing. Using the term implies you understand the technique, and therefore, surely you occupy a rarefied sphere that few...
View Article3 Simple Tricks to Make Exploratory Testing More Efficient
The Impact of Exploratory Testing Traditional testing follows a fairly simple model in which there are test cases written beforehand for all the possible use cases and then, after the test cases are...
View Article6 Steps To Write A Vision Statement With The Elevator Pitch Technique
Perfect the art of delivering your product’s vision within 2 minutes You’re a talented individual, professional, entrepreneurial (or all three, of course). You possess invaluable experience in your...
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5 Easy Ways To Make Agile Work In A Waterfall Organisation
Why should a waterfall organisation go for Agile? The first forms of Agile in the software industry emerged in the 90s, when some companies adopted it to see if they could create a more collaborative...
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7 Essential Changes to Transform Your Waterfall Organisation to Agile
We have previously discussed how to gently introduce Agile techniques to your Waterfall organization. Sprints, daily stand-ups and retrospectives are part of everyone’s vocabulary, and your team have...
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