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Software Testing in the World of Next-Gen Technologies

The introduction of next-gen technologies like AI, Big Data, Robotics and IoT have quickly redefined the way the world looks at software technology. Some of the biggest impacts of these changing trends can be seen in the software testing industry. This article discusses how these emerging technologies need some new approaches, and changes to existing approaches to software testing.

Kanika Vatsyayan
on Aug 20, 2021
Culture & Methods

Improving Testability: Removing Anti-Patterns through Joint Conversations

Code is always testable, but the cost may be high, and the effort exhausting. We can change code to be highly testable by identifying anti-patterns and fixing them. And developers can make the code fit the test requirements, by having discussions with the testers who actually test it.

Gil Zilberfeld
on Aug 10, 2021
Culture & Methods

The Current and Future State of Testing: a Conversation with Lisa Crispin

Lisa Crispin talks about the current and future state of testing, how testing works in agile environments, the value testers bring to DevOps, testing machine learning and where testing is headed. Testing is a communication activity and communication skills are vital to successfully leveraging testing skills and knowledge in modern software development.

Xiaoqian Geng Lisa Crispin
on Oct 21, 2019
Culture & Methods

Who is in Charge of Quality in Software Development

As silos break down, the whole team is responsible for quality in software development. As process more and more defines people and processes, how can you strive for better quality of releases?

Jennifer Riggins Janet Gregory
on Feb 10, 2019
Architecture & Design

Developing Microservices with Behavior Driven Development and Interface Oriented Design

These dependencies require well-defined and well-tested services. Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Interface Oriented Design (IOD) help achieve this. BDD concentrates on the functionality of the services, which are specified with tests. IOD identifies contractual obligations (e.g. failure reporting) of the services.

Kenneth Pugh
on Jan 26, 2019
Culture & Methods

James Bach on a Career in Testing and Advice for New Players

In this interview, James Bach explores making software testing legible and how to assess the values of your testing work and risk in a software product. He talks about how to overcome the testing automation pesticide paradox, and how should we leverage AI and ML in our testing. With more than 30 years software testing experience, Bach gives three pieces of advice to software testing beginners.

James Bach Xiaoqian Geng
on Nov 11, 2018
Culture & Methods

Soft Skill Patterns for Software Developers: The “Learning from Unintended Failures” Pattern

Soft Skill Patterns describe human behaviours that effectively solve recurring problems. The "Learning from Unintended Failures" pattern helps us improve the resilience of a system after a failure. The pattern follows 4 steps: identify a failure, quickly resolve any immediate impact, analyse root cause and system behaviour during the failure, and finally generate and implement improvement ideas.

Kevin Jackson
on Dec 05, 2017
Culture & Methods

2017 State of Testing Report

The State of Testing 2017 report provides insights into the adoption of test techniques, practices, and test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing. This is fourth time that this survey has been done. InfoQ held an interview with the organizers of the State of Testing survey.

Ben Linders
on Apr 07, 2017
Culture & Methods

Enhance Your Testing Skills with Mindset Tools

Quite a lot of testers often miss out on the mindset necessary for the testing and delivery of quality products. Sometimes it seems that quality consciousness is missing. This article is about how I discovered a way to grow my test mindset, and how my discovery has been useful in enhancing my testing skills.

Vivien Ibironke Ibiyemi
on Apr 05, 2017
Culture & Methods

Technical Practices as a Hack on Consciousness: Why to Hack Yourself

Software technical practices are usually adopted as a means of creating better products. These practices can create and maintain a healthy human system. Technical practices raise the consciousness of individuals and the team as a whole. Technical practices hack consciousness giving us a quick, deep chute into depths of connection that improve our selves, our products, and our world.

Matthew Plavcan Jean Richardson
on Sep 01, 2016
Culture & Methods

The Way to No-Hotfix Deployment

Hot-fix redeployment is a waste of time and effort at best, and often a source of further regression, Adam discusses some ready-to-use techniques that helped he and his team reduce the frequency of hot-fix deployments to almost zero.

Adam Pahlevi
on Mar 11, 2016
Q&A on Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests

An interview with Gojko Adzic, David Evans and Tom Roden on why they wrote this book, how quantifying quality can support testing, balancing trust levels when testing large and complex systems, why automating manual tests is almost always a bad idea, on using production metrics in testing, how to reduce or prevent duplication in test code, and on upcoming books in the fifty quick ideas series.

Ben Linders
on Jun 23, 2015