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I’m often asked about the future of the testing role. Should I change my career direction? What’s in store for testing roles? Will there be a need for quality and testing expertise in the future? As a quality engineer, or tester, or testing leader, where do I go from here? No one has a crystal […]
One of the most common complaints of any software team during a retrospective is the issue of too many meetings. While agile ceremonies have the potential to provide a lot of value to the team when done correctly, often teams find themselves frustrated because the meetings did not provide enough (or any) benefit for the […]
Coveros Managing Consultant Brian Hicks and Training and Coaching Manager Samantha Jeantel explore what’s involved in getting a course accredited for certification, ways certification benefits individuals and organizations, as well as next steps for hands-on learning after certification.
What does each Agile Manifesto principle mean and how can teams get started down the right path in using each Agile Manifesto principle?
The 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps report was recently released. This annual research compilation is a great resource to see what’s going on in the world of agile and DevOps. The report evaluates organizations against five key metrics, collectively called software delivery and operational performance metrics: Lead time for changes: How long does it take for a […]
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The saying “Garbage in, garbage out” has long been used in software engineering to express the idea that poor quality input will always produce faulty output. Yet many applications still fail to apply the axiom. This can result in anything from stored cross-site scripting attacks, to SQL injections, to buffer overflows, or more benign malformed […]
Load and performance issues can be difficult to resolve when found late in the software development lifecycle, yet teams still often wait until the last minute to performance test their applications. This can be costly, especially if the problem ends up being an issue with the overall architecture of the application. Load and performance testing […]
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
