Welcome to my journey as I document how we introduced more QA practices to a group of developers who hadn’t consistently followed quality practices. I will share both the successes and challenges. I also plan to include conferences I’ve attended, lessons I’ve learned, and tools I’ve discovered or developed along the way.
18 Months in review
So many things have happend in the past 18 months but this site is not one of them
read moreAcceptance Criteria Test Driven Development
Developers have a tendency to overbuild their code. Looking at code from a Acceptance Criteria driven approach can help reduce the desire to gold-plate the code.
read more30 Days of Testability
I’ve never tried this but I’m thinking I might atleast try a few of these. Check out the 30 Days of Testabilty Challenge at the Ministry of Testing. They are challenging anyone(testers, developers, managers, whomever) around the world to complete 30 challenges in 30 days related to testing.
They have done this before, I’ve only ever been able to do one of two of the challenges, and never during the actual month of the challlenge, but maybe I can get a few of these done this month, and see where I stand at the end of the month.
read moreDefinition of Ready
As we were talking about the Definition of Done, it got some conversations going to talk about the Definition of Ready.
Does your team have a definition of ready for your stories?
What do you include in your definition?
Acceptance Criteria?Test Cases?
Has your team looked into creating a Definition of Ready?
Do you use this DoR as a guideline to know when a story is ready to be worked on?
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