Welcome to our first Agile Testing Fellowship blog post! Here we will share ideas from us (Janet and Lisa), instructors as well as featured guests. We hope to have a wide variety of topics that will interest you. We decided to kick of this site w...

In our January blog post, we talked about the importance of asking questions about new features and building shared understanding among the team. Shared understanding should extend beyond feature behavior to other concerns. For example, once we h...

Our last blog post was about the importance of asking questions when moving towards continuous delivery environment. Asking questions is important, but sometimes how you ask them is equally important. Janet shared one experience in a blog pos...

We’re going to use Janet’s latest model about holistic testing, to talk about specific practices that we use in different stages of the lifecycle. In this post, we extract the left top part of the infinite loop, and talk about testing early ...

Last month, we started talking about testing early: identifying assumptions and risks, creating testable stories using flow diagrams. There are many other types of visualizing tools such as state diagrams, empathy maps or user role maps. Jane...

Testing is the heart of DevOps. In our last blog post, we talked about DevOps – vocabulary, building relationships, and the deployment pipeline. This month we get more into the testing aspect of DevOps. Test automation is a big part of being ...

Since Janet introduced her holistic testing model, we’ve had several practitioners tell us, “This describes what we do so well! Thank you for explaining this – I can use this model to explain to others!” This approach resonates with people on tea...

In June, July and August of 2021, our blog posts were about engaging the whole team early in the discover and planning stages of the loop. We had several suggestions for practices that can help uncover hidden assumptions. In this blog post, w...

We’ve had people ask us, “Is observability really about monitoring”, so we decided that was a good topic for this month. This goes along with our previous blog posts about the different stages in the holistic testing model and how testing fits in...

Agile teams continually learn and apply those learnings to adapt their product and process. There’s often a tendency for teams to release a new feature and then move on to building the next new feature. This means missing a huge opportunity to le...

We’ve decided we are going to do a series based on our seven success factors from our first book Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams. We’ll bring in some new experiences and show why we still think they are important and ...

Meet the Agile Testing Fellowship instructors  - a blog post series! Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin and José Diaz co-founded the Agile Testing Fellowship to help teams and practitioners around the world learn to succeed with testing in agile...

What a great way to start off the new year talking about the number one success factor from Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams - the Whole Team. That’s it… the number one factor in being successful with testing and quali...

This is the second in our series introducing some of the highly experienced practitioners who teach our Holistic Testing courses. Some of you are already familiar with Gáspár Nagy. Janet and Lisa had the good fortune to meet Gáspár at testing con...

We commonly hear people talking about “non-functional” requirements. By “non-functional”, they mean quality attributes such as performance, security, accessibility, usability, operability, installability, the list goes on and on. However, we beli...