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In these books, you’ll find a treasure trove of pragmatic advice, ideas and insight – based on our experience and experimentation both internally and with our clients.
A brief guide to the emerging world of polyglot persistence
Practical retrospective advice for agile teams
Reliable software releases
19 March 2012Software Testing has found its place in the software industry, with more and more organizations understanding the crucial role that it plays in quality software production. As business requirements grow, so does the pressure on IT organizations to deliver more products with fewer resources, in reduced time and with high quality.
16 June 2009When integrated, Agile software development and User-Centered Design (UCD) allow development teams to extract the right information from their users, to verify assumptions, and to validate design decisions.
19 March 2012This article will attempt to show that many of the considerations around accessibility stack-up to simply be just good business
26 June 2010Software Testing is going through some revolutionary changes on philosophy, practices and tools; largely driven by current business and the IT environment. This article is an attempt to look at factors influencing changes in testing space, emerging trends in testing and the impact they have on testing professionals in the 21st century.
19 August 2010There are some specific trends noticeable in the way we do UI-based test automation. Technology has advanced, new interfaces have been created, and as a result, to counter that, new tools have been created that changed our way of doing test automation
19 January 2011So how do you do great design in a rapid, multidisciplinary and inclusive way? How do you set up new projects for success in a fast moving, agile environment? How do you ensure shared understanding and ownership of new initiatives in just a few days?
30 June 2009User stories are a lightweight mechanism for gathering and verifying user requirements on Agile projects. Unfortunately, it is easy to lose the context of stories. Find out how techniques from user-centered design (UCD) can help avoid this problem.
12 July 2011This is a story about how a team can successfully implement automated testing, not only delivering a comprehensive regression test suite, but living documentation of the system.
16 September 2010To document the general process of creating automated test scripts for web applications with Ruby and the WATIR testing module. The intended audience of this document is QA engineers/testers that are going to be either creating automated test cases for their applications or testers that are going to be running and maintaining already created tests. This document assumes that the reader is already familiar with the basic methods and syntax of the Ruby language and the components of an HTML based application (links, forms, JavaScript, etc..)
9 November 2010Agile methods are becoming increasingly common in application design, with their collaborative customer focus and iterative, test driven approach. They share many common principles, yet it is rare for Agile methods to incorporate user centred design. This article argues that by incorporating user-centred design (and in particular using low fidelity prototyping as an iterative model for the application rather than time consuming code) better applications can be developed, delivering business benefit with a focus upon the end user and their experience.
21 February 2011ThoughtWorks University students gain real-world and real-life experience working on projects for our SIP clients.
12 January 2011In Part 1, we introduced Sahi, talked a little about how it works and also showed how to use it to record a script. In this second part, we will look at some of the more advanced APIs, and discuss examples of their use within an actual project.
26 July 2010Acceptance tests are used to verify that a story (requirement) is complete. Automating these tests is common and it helps regression testing and iterative development. Even though these kinds of tests are extremely powerful and have improved quality of projects delivered, often they are not being used to their full potential. This article provides some hints and tips to help you make the most of your automation effort.
1 March 2010A short overview of agile methodologies, where they came from, their underlying philosophy and some of the benefits you can expect to see.
22 November 2008The agile software development movement has made huge improvements in reliability when delivering software, increasing return on investment, and reducing the risk of building software. However, in a world of iPhones and Google apps, this may no longer be enough.
19 October 2010a) How do we validate services for functional requirements? b) How do we manage testing the complexity of testing - 100's of services? c) How do shared services react across multiple applications as services change and evolve? d) How do we enforce governance based testing? e) How do we minimize testing effort during regression agile based testing?
19 October 2010In the software industry, before we deliver a product, we need to run many test assertions to make sure the product has met the customer's expectation. So what is a test assertion?
13 January 2013Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz died in New York City yesterday, Jan. 11, 2013. Swartz was 26.
30 November 2011Two technologies are revolutionizing service delivery for social-mission organizations, enabling them to expand their reach to more people, in more places than ever.
20 January 2011Many new media design, advertising and games development agencies struggle to factor in graphic and experience design effectively into their agile software development methodologies.
26 June 2010Most software professionals believe that testing software is essential to quality. Where people inside the industry differ is how to accomplish that testing, as strategies vary by level of the application tested, tools, methodology, amount of automation, and who completes the testing itself. The aspirational desire is to ship high-quality bug-free software no matter how one gets there. However, the devil is in the details.
27 September 2010Unravelling NoSQL and trying to explain what it is and whether you'd be interested in it or not is difficult. This article aims to give a high level introduction to NoSQL and provides a comparison of the latest technologies in this space.
12 January 2011Sahi is an automation and testing tool for web applications. Different from many other commercial testing tools, Sahi is an open source tool. As an automation tool, Sahi provides the facility of recording and play backing of scripts. Sahi supports Java and JavaScript. Even though the Sahi script looks like JavaScript, it is not executed as the regular JavaScript on the browser.
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