Tag: testing

A simplified Agile Test Strategy for Cross Environment Testing

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Cross environment testing is viewed as a tedious and repetitive task and is generally a challenge to accommodate within an agile life cycle. In my recent guest post for Gurock, I showcased my own experience in an agile release wherein we created a strategy for coverage of a number of test environments to support.

Using simple steps, discussions, base-lining and agreement within the scrum team, we created a scalable interoperability test strategy which was later supplemented with automation and other tools. In this article I have talked about-

  • Testing across OS versions
  • Supporting System versions
  • Localization- multiple language support
  • Planning and Test Strategy creation
  • Additional Ownership by testers

To read more, click here.

Give it a read and share your thoughts-

https://blog.gurock.com/agile-cross-environment-testing/

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Thanks

Nishi

The huge success of Selenium Summit 2018 – a peek into my day at the grand event

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Thanks to the fantastic organisation and management of our team and the amazing enthusiasm of the attending delegates, Selenium Summit 2018 organised by ATA at Pune on 22nd March 2018 was a huge success! All keynote talks were greatly appreciated and the hands-on workshops also were received well.

My workshop on “Selenium and Cucumber integration for an extended BDD Framework” received overwhelming response from the audience with more than a full house! 🙂

Here is a glimpse into the event and a sneak peek into the workshop too-

 

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Agenda

Thanks everyone who made this event a grand success!

-Nishi

 

 

I am speaking at the ‘Selenium Summit 2018’ @Pune

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Hello!

Check it out!

I am speaking at the Selenium Automation Summit 2018 being organised on 22nd March 2018 by ATA @ Pune.

Find more details about the event at : http://seleniumsummit18.agiletestingalliance.org/

I will be presenting a 90 minute- hands-on workshop on:

“Selenium with Cucumber for an extended BDD Framework”

Are you interested in looking into the trend of Behavior Driven Development? Would you like to see it in action using Cucumber? Would you like to integrate your functional tests in such a framework using integration of Selenium within Cucumber? Then this is the workshop for you!

This workshop will cover

  • Practical issues faced by most testing teams
  • Behavior Driven Development – the definition and need
  • Extending the Agile User stories and acceptance criteria in BDD scenarios
  • Cucumber as a BDD tool
  • Integration of Cucumber with Selenium in order to perform functional tests
  • Demo using Cucumber with Selenium with a real use case
  • Usage and Benefits of BDD In agile teams

Let’s meet there!

-Nishi

Five Ways DevOps complements Agile

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My guest post article for Gurock Software GmbH #TestRail blog is now up!!

“5 Ways DevOps complements Agile” – As an industry practitioner who has worked in agile for almost a decade now, I have always seen DevOps as a friend and an extension of agile. Using this article I have tried to put across my view on how this handshake between developers and operations personnel works in favor of bridging the gap from software creation to software delivery.- 

Please give it a read at – https://blog.gurock.com/5-ways-devops-complements-agile/

The major points I have touched upon in this article are –devops

  • A Focus on User’s Needs

  • Continuous Delivery

  • Concentrated Value Creation

  • Motivated Individuals

  • A Culture of Inclusion

 

To read more click here->

Cheers

Nishi

 

Getting Featured in the ‘Top 10 Articles of 2017’ at Stickyminds!

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Dear Readers

It is my pleasure and honor to share that my article on

                              “Let the Agile Manifesto guide your Software Testing”

published on Techwell Community forum http://www.stickyminds.com in 2017 has now been featured in the list of “Hottest Articles of 2017” , featuring in the Top 10 Most Read articles last year!

You can give it a read at https://www.stickyminds.com/article/let-agile-manifesto-guide-your-software-testing

I am happy that my thoughts, ideas and write-ups are getting noticed, and this motivates me to continue writing more and better always!

Wishing you a great year ahead.

Happy Testing!

 

Agile Testing Reflections 2017

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My first guest post article for Gurock Software GmbH is now up!!

“Agile Testing Reflections 2017” – I have written this as a look back on 2017 – what we learnt this year and taking these learnings forward to the new year.

Please visit https://blog.gurock.com/agile-testing-reflections-2017/  and give it a read.

The major points I have touched upon in this article are –

         Users are and Always will be King

         DevOps is our Friend

         Skills are More Important than Tools

         â€˜Contributor’ vs ‘Tester’

Read the article here –>

Thanks

Nishi

 

 

 

Guest Talk @ ETMarlabs meetup for EUROSTAR 2017 #magicoftestinginindia

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I was invited to present a guest talk at the meetup organised by ET Marlabs team for EUROSTAR 2017 on 9th Sep 2017- being the first of its kind in India and I gladly obliged! Presented a talk on Agile Manifesto and its learning for keen testers and answering our dilemmas in agile testing. The talk was very well received and brought out some great discussions with the participants. I was accompanied by another guest speaker Mr. Vinay Krishna who spoke about Behavior Driven Development BDD framework using Cucumber which was a very informative session too.

The team at ET Marlabs had also organised some great activities, testing relay game and quiz for the participants which brought out their testing minds and enthusiasm , which was well rewarded too! I would like to thank them for their kind invitation and would encourage them to organise and participate in more such community events!

Have a glimpse here –

http://highonblog.com/teamstar-2017-the-magic-of-testing-meetup-in-india/ 

ATA community growing with yet another awesome meetup hosted on 1st July @Allscripts Bangalore

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I organised and hosted the ATA 14th Meetup Bangalore @Allscripts Bangalore on 1st July 2017 Saturday, which saw a great turnout of keen testers and agile enthusiasts from various companies. We had a great line-up of speakers, including Dr. Shankar Ramamoorthy who is a noted speaker and has led Keynote talks at GTR Pune 2017 too.

Below was the planned agenda and talks for the day.IMG_20170701_110713

All talks were appreciated by the audience and were followed by interesting Q&A sessions and discussions. We also felicitated some CP-MAT awardees with certificates and goodies, and speakers were also presented with token of appreciation certificates.

It is great to see the community expanding and so many passionate testers coming together for such meetups and events for knowledge sharing , learning and networking.

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Hope to continue this effort with help and support from corporates like @Allscripts.

Great thanks!

Nishi

A huge success at the 13th ATA Bangalore Meetup @CoviamTech

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I organised and hosted the 13th ATA Meetup at Bangalore which was held on Saturday- 13 May 2017 at Coviam Technology office – HSR Layout. The event was a big success owing to the great support of the volunteering team @CoviamTech as well as the great talks by all the speakers. The day saw a huge turnout with a full house at the venue, and great participation and questions by the attendees.

CEO of Coviam Mr. Deepak Nachnani gave an introductory talk , followed by the below talks-

Shrinathacharya L M. (Shrinath)   from Allscripts Thick and Thin Lines in Choosing Mobile Test Cloud Environment
Mr. Sundaresan Krishnaswami from Coviam
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Ms.Felicia Kartika from Blibli.com, Indonesia		 Successful strategies to testing Microservices architecture
Mr Santhosh GS from Allscripts Machine learning telepathy for Shift Right approach of testing
Deepthi from Coviam Usability Testing

Delegates appreciated all the sessions, and had the opportunity to network over tea and lunch sponsored by Coviam at the end of the sessions.

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CP-MAT certificates were also distributed in a felicitation ceremony for the candidates who cleared the course last month.

Over all the day was a great success, and ATA looks forward to such an awesome response every month at our meetups!

Thanks

Nishi

‘Mastering Agile Testing’ – Training the CP-MAT certification batch

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I trained the latest CP-MAT training and certification batch held at Bangalore and it was a huge success. With wonderful participation by team from L&T, intriguing questions and enthusiastic response, it was a pleasure training and interacting with them!

CP-MAT is a wonderfully interactive course designed specifically for agile test practitioners.

CP-MAT stands for “Certified Professional – Master Agile Testing” certification prepared and honored by “Agile Testing Alliance” & “Universiti Teknologi Malaysia”.

The course is applicable for all roles and not just “testers”. Knowledge, experience & certification is consciously designed to focus on “agile testing” and not on “agile testers”.

CP-MAT helps the participants get into the testing mindset in an agile project. It helps you utilise your testing experience in learning hands on Agile testing. It instils the “Quality is everyone’s responsibility” concept in the minds of the participants.

It is useful for even to an experienced tester to apply the “regular” testing techniques to an Agile project. The concepts of Agile process with context to testing are covered during the course along with the associated best practices for Testing in an Agile Project. The course takes a hands-on approach while covering Release Planning, User Stories Review, Estimation, Sprint Planning, Agile Test Strategy, Testing debt, Testing DoD, Test Reporting and Metrics. This also introduces the participants to the concepts of TDD, ATDD, BDD and Continuous Integration (which are covered in detailed in the next level course CP-AAT).

Here is sneak peek into the training room–

Cheers

Nishi