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Continuous Testing and the Pipeline
I seem to be talking and thinking about continuous testing, um, continuously lately. I had a little epiphany last week when I concluded that most of the pipeline is for testing. The pipeline starts with a continuous integration build where unit testing happens and a package, installable entity is produced. The pipeline ends when that packaged entity is deployed into production. Every step in between is for testing. Different kinds of testing, but they are all testing. So at a minimum, when there’s only one test stage, 30% of the pipeline... [More]
Tags: agile continuous-delivery continuous-testing continuous-deployment automation testing test-automation test |
Continuous testing is gaining momentum!
I recently had the opportunity to attend the Agile Alliance conference, for the third straight year, which was held in Nashville from August 5th to 9th. And while it is always a fabulous and worthwhile event, this year the conference just seemed to be a little different to me. Perhaps it was just my perception but last year after talking to many attendees about service virtualization and continuous testing, I left several conversations with the feeling that I missed sharing something in my message. While the person may have gained a new... [More]
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Every Defect
I have always loved that subtitle on Dr. Strangelove – “ How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” I have recently been thinking that better, faster, cheaper with continuous delivery and continuous testing means we really have to stop worrying about every defect. Which led me to Dr. Strangelove . It’s equally mind bending in some ways … so many years of looking under every rock for those defects. The worst possible thing was an “escape” to production and its requisite... [More]
Tags: qualitymanagement agile mobile-testing quality continuous-testing quality-management alm test continuous-delivery test-automation automation |
Managing test automation in continuous testing
I’m still thinking about what the right content should be for continuous testing. My previous blog was about thinking about what test content matters. But there’s also the consideration of how much content and considering avoiding waste of building too much automation. I’ve had the experience several times of too much success (amazing, right?) in building automation. In those days, it was actually great to have a robust test automation suite that took 12-18 hours to run. We actually measured our success at... [More]
Tags: continuous-delivery alm test-automation continuous-testing automation qualitymanagement agile test quality mobile-testing quality-management |
Mobile app testing challenges got you down?
Are you thinking about what to do about mobile testing? Everyone is talking about device fragmentation, but how do you manage to test and keep track of what’s different on each device type? We’re going to talk about ways to increase your reuse of manual or automated test scripts by leveraging a single multichannel approach to your automation on Tuesday, June 4 th at 1:45 PM in my Innovate 2013 called “Multichannel Testing - From Web to Mobile and Beyond.” If you haven’t signed up for Innovate,... [More]
Tags: test automation agile quality innovate2013 mobile-testing test-automation |
Quality management and testing at Innovate 2013 - The week at a glance
Earlier this year, IBM hosted a webinar where we asked you, the customer, for feedback on Innovate. Well, the Quality Management and Testing Innovate team heard you loud and clear. For one, you said you wanted more sessions delivered by our customers and to hear the benefits they are realizing first hand. This year, we are offering more customer sessions than in years past. In fact two thirds of this year's agenda is being delivered by customers and our business partners. But we didn't stop there and believe we took this year's line... [More]
Tags: innovate2013 test-automation agile continuous-testing servicevirtualization |
Service Virtualization has come of age
It’s amazing to reflect back on how far service virtualization technology has come in the last two years since IBM acquired Green Hat. Back then, when I spoke with customers, they would either say “what’s service virtualization?”, or they would refer to it as a cool new technology that they’ve been meaning to investigate. What a difference two years makes. The recent report ,... [More]
Tags: agile-transformation continuous-testing agile service-virtualization |
Tales from the testing trenches
I’m putting the finishing touches on my presentation for Innovate 2013 called " What’s the Real Deal with Testing? " My session will be Wednesday, June 5 th at 11:15 am. We’re going to have 90 minutes to talk about the real problems facing testers. Like what is this “continuous testing” thing? How much time do you spend setting up test environments and what’s the hardest part? Are you doing unattended testing? Do you want to? Join me for these topics and much, much more! If you... [More]
Tags: test qualitymanagement test-automation automation quality quality-management agile innovate2013 continuous-testing continuous-delivery |
Test Data and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
I had an awesome time last Saturday at CITCON in Boston. Not only were the views amazing but the conversations were thought provoking. The conference follows open-space technology which means that all the topics are meaningful to the participants (we get to vote!) and there is lots of interaction in every session. I continue to be thinking about the issues related to test data in the continuous delivery pipeline that was a CITCON topic. It’s typical to create test automation expecting certain sets of data to be available.... [More]
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Testing, testing, testing, 1, 2, 3 testing (for mobile apps)
You stay in this business long enough and you get to a point where everything old is new again. Seriously, it’s like the fashion industry. I always chuckle remembering my daughter’s shock that I, um, had also worn bell bottoms. And this is exactly what I think about when I hear all the chatter about the fragmentation of testing for mobile applications. There are a billion device combinations. Yup. Hasn’t there always been? About 10 years ago, to help choose how to test and to make a point, I did a spreadsheet with... [More]
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The tester’s version of “The Apprentice”
A colleague shared this article with me and much of the thinking aligns with where I’ve been landing on the topic of continuous testing. Of course, when reading the article, one thing jumps right out …. When the author, Marnie Hutcheson, expressed concerns about being able to complete the testing in the time frame specified (30 hours of testing, twice, over a weekend), she was, um, fired. Felt to me as abrupt as hearing “you’re fired” on a certain television show. And the most amazing... [More]
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What does “testing” mean in the context of Continuous Delivery?
The Agile Manifesto guiding principles says, “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.” (emphasis mine) So as teams have adopted agile development practices, we have rapidly hit the delivery wall. The current conventional wisdom says to reduce risk, deliver more frequently and to make sure you’re not changing very much. I mean really, how much can you screw up in a day (or even a week)? So, if you can’t really screw much up AND even if you do, you... [More]
Tags: continuous-testing agile quality-management continuous-delivery automation test mobile-testing test-automation qualitymanagement alm quality |
