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In our series on the 7 key factors for agile and holistic testing success, we’ve worked our way up to number 2: Adopt an agile testing mindset. In our global testing community, some people do not know what we mean by ‘mindset’. It’s all about att...

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...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...