New work practices have been designed and adapted for test specialists to be better organized for collaborative projects. We asked IT teams to give us their successful working methods. 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞: Communicate regularly. It is important 𝚝𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖 colleagues about the project and your own tasks progress. It is always beneficial…

Canary Release reminds 𝟏𝟗𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲, when miners tested new mines to avoid being poisoned or burned by flammable pockets of gases.

We questioned a few testers about books that helped them in their early days in testing. If they had to choose only ONE book, which one would they choose? 🤔 One of them explained that ‘Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation’ by Jez Humble and David…

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was born on 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟗, 𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟔 in New York. She was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral, and a 𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 of computer programming, who invented one of the first linker. Early in her life, Grace Murray Hopper showed a 𝕓𝕚𝕘 interest in…

In the past, testers were at the end of the chain, after a very complex V-cycle. Cycle times were increased by 𝟐𝟎%, while the acceptance phase tended to be even more shortened. 😰 Today, mentalities have not really changed, but it is more a question of mindset.😎 While Agility is…

At Agilitest, we questioned a few testers about the preconceptions they had about testing before working in this field. 💭 What did you think about testing before? What did you imagine? 🥶 And what’s different, finally? 🤔 Some have mentioned the need for technical and development knowledge to automate tests……

In 1986, Ikujiro Nonaka & Hirotaka Takeuchi, two academics who observed companies such as Toyota, defined 3️⃣ categories of companies: 𝚃𝚢𝚙𝚎 𝙰 companies, such as NASA 🚀, which divide work into well-defined phases and do not move on to the next phase until the previous one has been completed. 𝚃𝚢𝚙𝚎 𝙱…

The automation of legacy software is a sensitive subject that requires a careful analysis of the situations, which are often all different. In some cases it is useful or even necessary, and in others you are wasting your time. In this article, we detail these cases. What is legacy software? In the IT culture…

Software testing is a crucial step before releasing a product. With so many approaches to testing, end-to-end testing (E2E testing) may appear as the most time- and resource-consuming method, but it may be the most significant. It ensures software quality and creates confidence in the entire application. How does this…