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What is Testing Pyramid? How Does It Benefit Agile Teams?

Consider you’re building a house, and you start by laying a strong foundation before adding the walls, roof, and other finishing touches. Just as a house needs a solid foundation to stand the test of time, software development needs a reliable foundation of testing to ensure that the final product meets the needs of users and the business. And that is where the testing pyramid comes in. In this article, we will explore what the testing pyramid is, how it works, and how it benefits agile teams.

Why Enterprises Are Adopting BDD & What It Means for QA Testing

Agile development methodologies are increasingly necessary to adapt to rapidly changing requirements, deliver value faster, and ensure a robust user experience. While many strategies address these challenges, behavior-driven development (BDD) is gaining particular attention for its unique ability to deliver on these goals through enhanced collaboration. In this article, we’ll look at BDD, why enterprises are adopting it, and what it means for QA testing teams.

Should You Automate It? Knowing When to Build Test Automation and When to Keep It Manual

Agile teams must adapt to changing requirements and continuously ship new features. But, while automated tests are faster, they take time to set up and still need ongoing maintenance. So, how do you decide when to invest time and energy in test automation and when to use manual tests? Striking the right balance is critical to success.

Building an Agile PMO: Key Features, Organizational Structures, and Overcoming Challenges

Traditional forms of enterprise project management are constantly evolving as the field matures and expands. Although these ways of thinking have been successful in the past, changes to the ways we work, lightning-fast globalization, and the increased use of Agile across industries require a new way of working. As a result, structuring an Agile Project Management Office (PMO) is the next logical step. But what is an Agile PMO? Agile PMO is a modern take on Project Management techniques.

Agile Testing Methodology: 5 Examples for the Agile Tester

Agile development takes an incremental approach to development. Similarly, Agile testing includes an incremental approach to testing. In this type of software testing, features are tested as they are developed. While the Agile methodology is fairly common at this point, many organizations – particularly organizations in regulated industries that require more formal documentation and traceability – still use waterfall or hybrid development frameworks.

What is Agile Methodology? How It Works, Best Practices, Tools

Agile Methodology is a people-focused, results-focused approach to software development that respects our rapidly changing world. It’s centered around adaptive planning, self-organization, and short delivery times. It’s flexible, fast, and aims for continuous improvements in quality, using tools like Scrum and eXtreme Programming.

How Allianz France achieved a fast-paced Agile development lifecycle with Xray and YEST

With operations in 70 countries, Allianz is a world leading insurance company and the preferred insurance brand. The company offers a large range of insurance policies for both corporates and individuals. Allianz has been present in France since the late 1950s and made a major acquisition there in 1998 with the purchase of the AGF company. 5 years ago, Allianz France decided to reorganize its IT to scale agile practices.

All about Agile Performance (k6 Office Hours #78)

In this week's k6 Office Hours, join Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Leandro Melendez as they talk about performance testing in the Agile world. How has Agile approach changed the way we do performance testing? What's the current state of performance testing? and How can k6 help? Join us to know more! Do you want to join our team?

Why Site Reliability Engineering is a Key Enabler for Enterprises to Maximize Business Agility?

Agile methodologies are transforming and speeding up the development lifecycle of businesses, but operations are not being changed or speeded up in the same way. While the operations teams frequently struggle to keep up with this pace, it increases operational challenges in the application landscape. To make the whole IT operation more ‘agile’, it is critical to alter operations to par with how development processes are transformed.

Agile Testing Certifications: Elevating Your Testing Career with Agile Certifications

Agile is a flexible development methodology primarily popular in IT today and allows customers to get high-quality software faster. Many professions use Agile methods: Developers, Managers, Business Analysts, Designers, Scrum Masters, and of course, Quality Analysts/Assurance. Suppose you want to work in agile software testing. You have to pass agile testing and receive the certificate for it. On average, preparation for this exam lasts a month. You will need to learn a lot of technical information.