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With more and more people are adopting agile practices; and the focus mostly is on one or two user stories at a time instead of the whole
system, there is a strong possibility that we might oversight some issues with
the infrastructure.

Having said that, it might be very easy to expect the problems and test them. Look at some simple steps that will help you to test such
systems while you are working in ag

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Recently I was asked to work on a project which was not known to me before. We had only few days to test the whole product in integration and there was only one tester working in the team with 5 development pairs, a BA and a PM. My testing colleague was also going on holidays after the release. I was told the product is not in a stable build and we need to get as much quality information as we can. I had been doing agile testing for a while but I did not happen to join an ag

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We have adopted agile methodology in some years now and this has changed the role of our testers along with changing the other areas of the business. Before agile adoption, were having roles like test engineer,
lead tester, team leader and test manger. Now we only have test engineers in every

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For each Scrum master and for the whole agile team the most important thing is the done selected backlogs for the sprint, but not the time spent on coffee breaks or browsing the internet. And it’s the known fact, that in agile development the most essential issue is how much time is left to finish the user story, but not how much time was spent by each of the developer. You should ask yourself whether you need the metrics of time at all. Why are you tracking time? One reasonable answer that come… Continue

by Ryan Martens For 2010, lets find ways to focus on teaching our craft and growing the world of skilled software development professionals instead of trying to figure out who is “right.” I believe much of the “Escalation” that Jean is seeing was correctly titled by Regina Mullen as a battle to be “right.” (see and read… Continue

Go on, why not add your own blog post to this thriving new community?! I'm sure you've got views and experiences that others in the community would find interesting and might help to inform their thinking. You don't have to be an expert, just talk about what you've done, what's worked, what hasn't. You'll be surprised how much this will help others in a similar position to you. Kelly. Continue