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Liz! asked a question.  She and her team are starting agile and she can’t get much info on where QA fits into to Agile.

First, I want to reiterate Jeff Sutherland’s concern, that he biggest problem is that too many teams are not getting to wor…

Ahem. Actually that’s a bit of an exaggeration. I have to be honest with you. Agile software development probably doesn’t really save lives. There, you heard it from me first. I just felt like being melodramatic… Someone once joked with me that “agile is great, but you wouldn’t use it on an air traffic control system!” Actually, I would. In

I have recently been asked by a tester how agile testing compares to the various test phases in more traditional, waterfall development projects. For instance, after the code has been unit tested, are there several testing phases, such as system, integration and regression testing? Although these layers of testing do exist in agile projects, agile testing is integrated throughout the

This is a guest blog post from Ray Claridge, who writes a really interesting blog about agile testing caled Tester Troubles. Over to Ray… Moving into agile software development can be a daunting experience for any tester, and crawling the Internet for crumbs of comfort does little to ease the anxiety. I remember how I felt on my first day,

In my opinion, the most challenging role to adapt to agile development is the role of Tester. That’s because agile development contradicts so many things that many Testers have been taught is ‘best practice’. Testers might typically have gone through some recognised training such as ISEB certification. ISEB testing qualifications, for example, specifically acknowledge iterative-incremental development models, including agile methods.