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 find so much benefit in visual models to help us think about agile testing and spur conversations with our team. Over the years, we have come across many, that have helped us have a conversation with our teams. In Part One of this two-part blo...

NOTE: This post is a special edition copied from our May 2023 newsletter. Normally our newsletters contain content that is exclusively for our subscribers. We had a special request to make this issue available to a wider audience so we are making...

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...

In the last few years, we’ve been hearing “buzz” about quality coaches. Everyone seems to have their own take on the subject, and we’ll share some links from others expressing their opinions. As testers/quality advocates, we care about the qua...

In our Holistic Testing courses, we talk a lot about the importance of collaboration. If your organization has more of a solo work culture, it can be hard to encourage more collaborative practices such as pairing and working in an ensemble (the n...

Back in the exciting internet startup days of the late ‘90s, Lisa had the title of “Quality Boss” at the travel website startup where she worked. She held the keys to production. She decided when the release candidate was good enough to release a...