agile testing

Agile vs Waterfall

Agile vs Waterfall As a Tester there is a big difference in your approach when it comes to using different SDLC methodologies. From my experience, the two that are often used are Agile and Waterfall. “One of the differences between agile software development methods and waterfall is the approach to quality and testing. In the…

QA Testing role within the Scrum Team

QA Role in the Scrum Team The QA Role within Scrum is not actually a recognised role, this is because everyone in the Development team is described as a Developer, this means that all members of the Scrum team are responsible for Quality. Which means it is down to all the members of the Scrum…

Planning Poker – Agile Test Estimation

Planning Poker Planning Poker is a consensus-based estimating technique. Delivery Teams using the Agile Development Methodology teams can use Planning Poker to estimate their backlog of development. Planning Poker can be used with story points, ideal days, or any other estimating unit. What is Planning Poker? The idea behind Planning Poker is that for each…

Agile Exploratory Testing

Agile Exploratory Testing Exploratory testing is a type of functional testing and is equally as important in an Agile testing environment as in the Waterfall testing environment. Exploratory testing allows testers to take ownership over the newly developed code and test it in a structured yet some say unorganised fashion. The QA tester does not follow…