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  • Culture & Methods

    Developing Test Automation Scripts and Automation Frameworks

    In the article Alexander responds to the questions about the difference between test frameworks and test scripts and discusses an approach for how test a automation solution could be implemented.

    Sasha Reminnyi
    on Oct 24, 2015
  • DevOps

    Infrastructure Code Reviews

    As infrastructure becomes code, reviewing (and testing) provides the confidence necessary for refactoring and fixing systems. Reviews also help spread consistent best practices throughout an organization and are applicable where testing might require too much scaffolding.

    Chris Burroughs
    on Sep 24, 2015

  • 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

  • Continuous Quality and the Cloud: How You Should Be Testing Mobile Apps

    What is so hard about developing and testing mobile apps? For a lot of developers the answer to this question is "keeping quality high in a field of device and os fragmentation". This is even more true when apps need to be delivered agile, in short release cycles. Cloud based test labs provide an infrastructure to efficiently execute automated tests for your software on a great number of devices.

    Eran Kinsbruner
    on May 05, 2015

  • Continuous Delivery: Huge Benefits, but Challenges Too

    This article explains why Paddy Power adopted continuous delivery (CD), describes the resulting CD capability, and reports the huge benefits and challenges involved. This information can help practitioners plan their adoption of CD and help researchers form their research agendas.

    Lianping Chen
    on Apr 30, 2015

  • A Tester’s Perspective on Agile Snags

    Priyanka presents some of the advantages and challenges that agile adoption brings for testers and testing and presents some ideas on how to overcome the obstacles and leverage the advantages. She discusses the agile tester mindset and how the role of someone doing testing in an agile environment changes.

    Priyanka Hasija
    on Apr 18, 2015

  • Q&A with Andy Singleton on Unblock! A Guide to the New Continuous Agile

    The book Unblock! A Guide to the New Continuous Agile by Andy Singleton provides ideas and practices for doing distributed cloud-based development with continuous delivery. It describes how you can build, test, and frequently release code, and how continuous agile can be used with strategies for managing teams, products, and enterprises in a continuous delivery environment.

    Ben Linders
    on Mar 10, 2015

  • Insights into the Testing and Release Processes for Chrome for iOS

    At a recent Google Tech Talk in New York, Lindsay Pasricha, software test engineer at Google for the last eight years, provided a peek into the test and release processes for Google Chrome for iOS, exploring product development strategy, automated testing frameworks, and manual testing processes. Here a summary of the most important takeaways.

    Sergio De Simone
    on Feb 09, 2015

  • Lessons Learned by Scaling Android Apps - AnDevCon Panel Summary

    At the last AnDevCon, Doug Bateman moderated a panel focused on what it takes to build Android apps that scale up to millions of global users. This included team management, testing and design for testability, feature and release management, support, open source contributions, alternative architectures, and more.

    Sergio De Simone
    on Jan 02, 2015

  • Q&A with Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin about More Agile Testing

    The book More Agile Testing reflects back on the developments that have happened in agile testing in the last five years. It covers new challenges in testing, test practices, and examples of and experiences with agile testing from teams all around the world. InfoQ did an interview with the authors Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin.

    Ben Linders
    on Dec 09, 2014

  • Interview and Book Review: Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners

    "Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners" by Ilan Goldstein is a must read book that delivers real world examples on how to effectively implement and embed Agile in your team or organisation.

    Craig Smith
    on Nov 17, 2014

  • Book Review: Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef - Second Edition

    The second edition of Stephen Nelson-Smith's book "Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef" covers the principles behind "Infrastructure as Code", provides an introduction to Ruby, Chef, and important Tools. The main part consists of detailed examples on how to use the tools required to write fully tested infrastructure code.

    Matthias Marschall
    on Feb 17, 2014
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