What programming skills does someone in QA need to work effectively in extreme programming projects?
Well, the title really says it all, but to elaborate a bit, can you take a random, typically effective QA department and have them learn to work in an XP environment (with a learning curve to pick up the XP workflow of course) or would they need more programming skills to be effective? If so, what would they need to know?
Must all new features go through betatest?
Obviously, small usability fixes and bugfixes go directly into the stable product. What about small new features? Can you afford to just release them after internal testing, or do they have to be betatested by customers first?
QA – Developer communication [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: Tester-Developer communication (8 answers) Closed 11 years ago. I am a developer and have worked at this company 4~5 years by now. We have been practicing scrum for about 2 years. I think, I have been worked well with QAs. I believe QAs/developers/technical writers are all one team. We […]
Quality Assurance=inspections, reviews..?
Studying this subject extensively, the most books state the following:
How can QA prevent defects?
Also according to Software Testing By Srinisvasan Desikan, Gopalaswamy Ramesh or ISTQB text books. Quality assurance is e.g. reviewing products, inspections, walkthroughs to see if all standards are being followed. This is preventive activity. I cannot see how this can be preventive?
Dilemma of QA vs. iterations
In my company, we successfully working with agile practices – but without using iterations. The main reason is that we can’t find a clean way to fit in QA in an iteration cycle.
What is a good measure of testing/tester efficiency?
I am about to participate in a discussion with management regarding measuring our testing efficiency as a QA organization. The main reason behind this is that half of our team is contracted out and our business would like to provide some metrics of how effective/efficient we are, so that we have basis data on which to negotiate contract parameters with the service agreement of our contractors.
Functional Requirements / Specification and relationship to DEV and QA
Functional Requirements state “WHAT” needs to be done from a user’s perspective
Functional Specification state “HOW” it needs to be done from technical standpoint.
Is seniority/paygrade an important factor for effective QA members? [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: QA – Developer communication [duplicate] (2 answers) Closed 11 years ago. As a member of our company’s QA team, I frequently get entirely unenthusiastic feedback from developers in their responses to test results in our agile, web-based software-as-a-service shop. Most of our testing is manual, since automated testing doesn’t […]
Is seniority/paygrade an important factor for effective QA members? [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: QA – Developer communication [duplicate] (2 answers) Closed 11 years ago. As a member of our company’s QA team, I frequently get entirely unenthusiastic feedback from developers in their responses to test results in our agile, web-based software-as-a-service shop. Most of our testing is manual, since automated testing doesn’t […]