Evaluating Team Health in Agile and DevOpsThe importance of the human element in delivering great software is sometimes overlooked, as is the relationship between team health and team performance.

Most of the advice on meetings concerns how to run them. But what about when you’re attending the meeting rather than running it, and the meeting is endless or boring? Certainly, it can help to stay ...

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Behavior-driven development (BDD) and keywords are both widely used techniques to facilitate automated testing. The approaches are similar in that tests can be written in a business-readable, ...

It seems to defy all logic, but the best programmers have two usually undesirable traits: They’re lazy and dumb. That’s the point of a classic post by web developer and blogger Philipp Lenssen that I ...

Occasionally, I hear someone maintain that you can’t have too much communication. I disagree. In matters of communication, more is not necessarily better. Sure, too little communication can result in ...

As technology advances at an exponential rate, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in software quality assurance (SQA) has become increasingly prominent. From automating mundane tasks to ...

When I came across an article titled “Thinking on Your Feet,” I assumed it was about how to act in the moment when questions are flung at you in a high-pressure situation. Responding articulately and ...

Amazon made headlines recently with its new patent for an anticipatory shipping model. The model predicts what users would likely buy, when they would buy it, and where they would need it. Amazon ...

Test automation isn’t anything new. Like any other engineering process, test automation has had its own evolution cycle, starting with the days of record-and-play solutions. Today, test automation ...

When you’re testing software, yoga is probably the last thing on your mind. Especially since you’re often staying just about as stationary as possible—looking to squash bugs and polish your ...

You have a great job. You work well with your coworkers and enjoy hanging out with them after work. Then one day, your boss’s boss calls you in and tells you you’re being promoted to be the manager of ...