Best Practices

The Vital Role of Product Owners in Software Testing: Meeting Stakeholder Expectations, Reducing Risk, and Driving Revenue

By Jason Manning Software quality testing plays a pivotal role in the success of any software development project. In today’s competitive digital landscape, where user experience and customer satisfaction are paramount, delivering high-quality software is not an option but a necessity. Quality assurance testing ensures that the software meets the intended purpose, functions as expected,…
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How Software Testing Can Contribute To Your Sustainability Initiatives

By Duran Thomas In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the significance of sustainability cannot be overstated. The urgent need to address environmental challenges, reduce waste, and promote responsible practices has become a shared global responsibility. While sustainability is often associated with tangible initiatives like recycling or renewable energy, a hidden hero plays a crucial role…
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What Is Chaos Testing, And Do I Need It?

By Stacy Kirk Chaos testing is a technique in software development that involves intentionally introducing failures, faults, and unexpected behaviors into a system to test its resilience and ability to recover. While it can be a valuable tool in identifying and addressing weaknesses in a system, it also has advantages and disadvantages. What is chaos…
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Creating An Exceptional Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE)

By Stacy Kirk A testing center of excellence (TCoE) is a team of experts responsible for developing and maintaining standards for the organization’s technology initiatives. For software, that means a software testing center of excellence is the core team that will ensure high quality by adhering to standards, reducing risk, and ultimately creating a great…
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3 Tips to Stop Your Tech from Being Grounded

I'd like to share a developer’s insight into testing and hope my story inspires you to appreciate the roles of both testers and developers.
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Here’s Why You Should Be Doing More Accessibility Testing

Users present a diversity of skills, preferences and abilities; and applications can’t be truly useful unless we consider accessibility.
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Scrum Masters: 6 Questions to Get Your Agile Team in Sync

Scrum Masters play a critical role in ensuring goal alignment, identifying risks, removing bottlenecks, and keeping sprint backlogs on track. Ask these often overlooked questions to set your agile team up for success. By Sheyinka Harry As the servant leader for an agile team, the Scrum Master does much more than facilitate meetings and remove…
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Powerful Agile Questions Every Product Owner Should be Asking

By Sheyinka Harry As the liaison between the business/customer and the team, the Product Owner is innately responsible for creating the Product Vision and Mission, as well as the resulting Product Backlog. When creating these artifacts, Product Owners spend a great portion of their time in meetings with: The stakeholders to capture their needs; The…
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Stakeholders: Three Powerful Agile Questions You Should be Asking

By Sheyinka Harry As stakeholders, we are sometimes so focused on pushing our teams to get the product out that we lose sight of the full scope of the role we play in the product delivery process. Being a stakeholder on a project isn’t just about making new product backlog requests or attending the demos…
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Six Powerful Questions Every Agile Team Member Should Ask

By Sheyinka Harry We’ve all undoubtedly experienced times when issues arise during projects and within teams that could have been easily avoided. How, you might ask? Simply by asking the right questions. Having enquiring minds and openly asking questions can help uncover potential challenges and ultimately play a huge part in the generation of optimal…
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