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Moving into "Modern Test Leadership"

Test management is dead; it just really needs to evolve. Test Leadership means focusing more on raising the awareness of testing across an organisation, and coaching/mentoring your team to be passionate advocates for quality. As a test leader, you need to learn to adapt to remain relevant, take time to self-reflect on what is important to you, and build personal leadership values.

Simon Prior
on Jul 20, 2021
Culture & Methods

Validation of Autonomous Systems

This article introduces validation and certification as well as the general approval of autonomous systems and their components, such as those used in automation technology and robotics. It gives an overview of methods for verification and validation of autonomous systems, sketches current tools and show the evolution towards AI-based techniques for influence analysis of continuous changes.

Christof Ebert Michael Weyrich
on Jun 23, 2021
Architecture & Design

Enhance Your Testing Strategy with Mind Map-Driven Testing

Mind map-driven testing can enable testers to focus on test idea generation, it exposes you to your thinking and enables you to brainstorm and organize your ideas effectively. This article shares ideas and knowledge about mind maps and shows how they can be used as lean documents to plan, organize, record, present, and report on testing.

Prashant Hegde
on Jun 16, 2021
Culture & Methods

How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). It’s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the “usual” ways of introducing change fail for TDD. This article outlines some of the things that actually do work and explains “Samman,” which is a coaching method used with developers.

Emily Bache
on Jun 15, 2021
Culture & Methods

Continuous Learning as a Tool for Adaptation

The fifth and capstone article in a series on how software companies adapted and continue to adapt to enhance their resilience explores key themes with a special view on the practicality of organizational resilience. It also provides practical guidance to engineering leadership and recommendations on how to create this investment.

Nora Jones
on May 07, 2021
Culture & Methods

2021 State of Testing Report: Testing Careers, Covid-19, Agile, Coaching & Training, Automation

The 2021 State of Testing report provides insights into the adoption of test techniques, practices, and test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing. Key topics from this report are testing careers, the impact of Covid-19, agile, DevOps and other methodologies, testing coaching & training, and automation and scripting.

Ben Linders Lalitkumar Bhamare Joel Montvelisky
on May 06, 2021
Culture & Methods

Testing Games is Not a Game

Testing video games goes beyond or differs in general from what Quality Assurance means and represents. It brings a new subset of responsibilities and skills intrinsic to the gaming industry. This article provides insights about the game industry, the role of the game tester, thoughts on challenges, and the learnings of testing games.

Ismael Sánchez
on Apr 07, 2021
Culture & Methods

Applying Stoicism in Testing

Agility stands for being aware of your environment. There is a specific set of values for a tester that you should stick to; they set limits to what you can deliver as a tester, and within those limits, you can keep your agility. But your values can cause a “collision” with agile people around you, because they don’t have to be perfectly in line with how people apply the agile principles.

Ard Kramer
on Mar 23, 2021
Java

Testing Quarkus Web Applications: Reactive Messaging, Kafka, and Testcontainers

Quarkus is a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework that supports many coding styles, including reactive programming. Writing clean unit/component/integration tests for Quarkus applications when a reactive approach is used is vitally important. Here we demonstrate testing reactive code, reactive messaging, and full integration testing.

Alex Soto
on Mar 11, 2021
Java

Testing Quarkus Web Applications: Writing Clean Component Tests

In this article, we will learn how to write clean integration tests for Quarkus applications. We will see how we can write simple and clean tests for the following scenarios: a mail client, security with RBAC, testing using containers, and rest clients.

Alex Soto
on Mar 02, 2021
Culture & Methods

Five Reasons You Shouldn't Reproduce Issues in Remote Environments

Bugs are an unavoidable part of software development and also one of the biggest time sinks developers face when building software. One way we waste time when working on bugs is trying to reproduce issues in remote test environments. There are some circumstances where this is a wise approach and some where it is a waste. Knowing the difference is an important skill.

Josh Hendrick
on Jan 24, 2021
Development

The Kollected Kode Vicious Review and Author Q&A

Addison Wesley Professional The Kollected Kode Vicious by George V. Neville-Neil aims to provide thoughtful and pragmatic insight into programming to both experienced and younger software professionals on a variety of different topics related to programming. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with author Neville-Neil about his book.

Sergio De Simone George V. Neville-Neil
on Jan 21, 2021