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Etiquette / Leadership / Sharing Best Practices - How much should I try to influence?
I recently joined another team part time where I kinda know several of the people, and they know me for my design work mostly, but I'll be doing design and some development with them. There's a lot of ...
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1answer
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How can we better maintain a large amount of DbUnit datasets?
The project I'm currently working on a Spring Boot project, and I have a question regarding testing against the database. Our testing tech is currently JUnit 4, Mockito and DbUnit, and we test ...
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Is it normal to retest the entire sprint before pushing to UAT
I have <5 years experience in the software industry and this is my first time doing QA. Before the stories in a sprint move to UAT, I am supposed to retest every single story in ~1 day in an ...
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Only test when necessary in agile software development: good or bad idea?
When taking an agile development approach, it is obvious to only implement features when necessary. My question is: can the same be applied when it comes to testing, i.e. creating test cases and only ...
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2answers
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How often should I push CRM solutions from Dev to Test in 3 week sprints?
I'm on a new CRM dev team. And simply put, I haven't seen sprint execution such a mess in my whole professional career. I have a deployment plan moving forward. I have an idea how I want continuous ...
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Version number between sprints
My question is a little bit about branching, versioning and agile development in general, but the heart of all three is the version number I think. Currently, I'm using internal version numbers (e.g. ...
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3answers
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How to rollback rejected features by QA in a Continuous Delivery scenario?
As I am looking more and more into Continuous Delivery for our organisation, I struggle to understand how we can effectively incorporate manual QA testing before a release is pushed out into ...
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5answers
443views
TDD and waiting on dependencies
I am on a fairly new team that is also new to TDD and Agile/Scrum. Currently we are developing a project that consists of web API and a native iOS and Android application, with a small team of devs ...
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6answers
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Which stage of Agile (SCRUM) should we start creating automation tests?
A little background of me - I'm a manual tester for almost 2 years within an Agile environment using SCRUM (1-2 weeks sprints). So I'm wanting to introduce automation testing in my work using ...
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2answers
507views
"I'm done with my coding" from Agile perspective
Scenario: I'm working in an Agile environment. The dev environment has not been configured yet, and I'm told to code a piece of an application. I code the module and write appropriate unit tests for ...
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3answers
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Should defects be raised during sprints or just noted in the stories and assigned to developers?
I have heard that when testing stories developed in the current sprint, no issues are raised they are not completed (i.e. definition of done was not fulfilled) and that you should only raise issues ...
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What is the right testing strategy in Agile Scrum/Kanban teams?
The problem is: The team , I am working in has 10 developers to 2 testers ratio which means we are going to churn out code more quickly than it is "Test" done. So, What should be the right approach ...
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5answers
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Is Testing a necessary part of Agile methodology?
I have been on numerous teams that try to practice Agile methodologies and often these teams are test centric. Is testing a necessary part of practicing the Agile methodology or is it just a XP ...
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7answers
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Coding and testing in the same sprint
How is testing handled within the same sprint as coding, if all or most of the coding is not done until the end of the sprint? (I'm referring to the "soup-to-nuts" development and testing of a single ...
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3answers
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What are some effective ways of making scrum more dynamic earlier in a sprint?
My team does 2-week sprints, and the trend we've identified (which we want to move away from) is that our daily standup scrums are relatively straightforward early in the sprint, but then transform ...
