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...

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...

Quality is hard to define and hard to measure in a meaningful way. And there are many aspects of quality. Process quality is about how well a team creates and delivers their product. Product quality is what the customer cares about. It’s all impo...

Over the years Janet has done many talks and keynotes about quality, and what it means – from a process perspective as well as a product perspective. Often, teams and organizations think about quality with a very narrow view. Jerry Weinberg de...

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...

Let’s look at a couple of visualizations that help teams identify and mitigate risk. In last month’s blog post, we described Rob Meaney’s visual for making problems visible and sparking discussions about them. Rob has another useful model that hi...

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 ...

As we mentioned last month, we’re doing a series based on our seven success factors from our first book, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams. We’re bringing in some new experiences and showing why we still think they are ...

Since you’re reading this blog post, we hope you and your team are getting engaged in testing activities throughout the holistic testing loop. (And if you aren’t familiar with it yet, please check out our posts on the holistic testing model.) We ...

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...

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...

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...