How to Implement Efficient Test Automation in the Agile World

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Quickly accelerate your Agile journey with smart test automation. Unleash the full potential of your development cycle with efficient test automation techniques in the agile world:

Automation in Agile is very critical. Think about the many features that are added and delivered to every Sprint.  There has to be a way to make sure that the newly added feature is not impacting the existing functionality.

Due to the low Sprint duration, it is practically impossible to execute the entire suit every time the product is incremented at the Sprint ends.  Having an automated test suit would play a bigger role here.

However, introducing and maturing into automation would take some time. Doing an initial investment in planning and designing the automation activity would pay off in the long run.

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DevOps Testing Tutorial: How DevOps will Impact QA Testing?

How DevOps will Impact QA

DevOps Testing Tutorial: A recent RightScale survey has found that 54% of the companies have adopted DevOps and the interest around DevOps is increasing rapidly.

In this article, we will learn how this new Software Development methodology will impact QA and how the QA function as a whole should evolve to embrace this change.

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In this article, we will learn more about DevOps and how it will impact QA and its functions.

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Getting Started with FitNesse – a Collaboration Tool for Testers and Developers

Getting Started with FitNesse

In this article, we will know in detail about FitNesse, a collaboration tool for testers and developers. Let’s get started.  

The world is moving towards Agile in the present times. Early and continuous feedback is crucial for any scrum team. Because the world is rapidly changing, the mindset of testers has also changed.

Instead of just “finding bugs, breaking software, measuring requirement”, testers are now thinking of “delivering the quality, right at first time, test without the UI or test even before the UI is available”.

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How the Testers are Involved in TDD, BDD & ATDD Techniques

Testers Involved in Agile

Overview of TDD, BDD and ATDD techniques:

TDD, BDD & ATDD are the terms which have revolutionized the tester’s world in Agile and have gained momentum too. The change in the mindset of testers also requires learning new skills and more importantly, changing the attitude, and the way of working.

Unlike working in isolation, testers need to collaborate and work together with the programmers which means

  • Sharing the test cases
  • Participating in writing the acceptance criteria of the stories
  • Provide continuous feedback to the stakeholders
  • Collaborating to resolve the defects on time.
  • Provide suggestions and input to improve the quality of the deliverables
  • Automation

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What is Gamification? Learn with Examples from IT, Education and Learning Fields

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In this article, you will learn about Gamification with the help of IT examples. Let’s get started.

We have provided a complete overview of Gamification and its impact in different walks of life including the Agile Process that we testers and developers follow in our day-to-day work.

What is gamification? Let’s first learn its meaning.

The main purpose of Gamification is to combine work with fun. Any non-game context can be made more appealing, by applying Gamification to it.

In simple words, “Gamification” means integration of the existing environment with the game mechanics.

Basically, it is adopting the key elements of games like designing, action or activity, fun, and competition, and then applying them through game mechanics such as points, badges, and leaderboard.

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Agile Estimation Techniques: A True Estimation in an Agile Project

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True Estimations in an Agile Project: A Complete Insight with Examples of Agile Estimation

It is very crucial to do Agile Estimation at different Levels. This is done for proper planning, management, and estimating the total efforts that we are going to use for implementing, testing, and delivering the desired product to the Customers in terms of time within the specified deadlines.

Due to a lack of Estimations in Agile projects, there may be no proper planning and management which may end in delivering the undesired product and thereby leave the customer unsatisfied. Storypoint Estimations are done in Agile projects using different techniques like Planning Poker, Bucket System, Affinity Mapping, etc.

Different estimation templates at different levels are used for this purpose like Agile Project Plan Template, Release Plan Template, Sprint Plan Template, RoadMap Template, User Story Template, etc.

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