Software testing

Coaching/Mentoring is a highly flexible, customised and targeted approach to rapidly improve your testng practices. All services can be provided on-site or virtually.

Mentoring activities can include:

• Short team workshops to identify challenges
• Engagement in relevant Agile ceremonies, exploratory testing sessions, test design activities, test approach definition, etc.
• Feedback on artifacts such as user stories, tests, etc.
• Knowledge transfer and coaching sessions: individual or team-based

Mentoring support can range from a single one-hour session to an on-going engagement over several weeks.It is completely targeted on your team’s key challenges and tailored to your unique upskilling needs.

Test Focus Areas

Agile test strategy

Testing in DevOps

Quality Engineering

Test Automation approaches

Mentoring/coaching services on Metrics-driven vendor-agnostic

• User Interface or API level automation
• Functional (Acceptance, Integration and Regression) and      Performance test automation

Testing in Scrum

• Avoiding the mini-waterfall in Sprints
• Testing user stories and their acceptance criteria
• Refining epics and stories to meet the INVEST criteria
• Developer testing and QA testing
• Common pitfalls/challenges and their solutions

Testing in Kanban

• How using a flow-based approach affects testing
• Visualising and optimising test activities in the workflow
• Common pitfalls/challenges and their solutions

Testing in Scrum/Kanban hybrids

Shift left, shift right, continuous testing in CI/CD

Whole team collaboration between dev and test

Roles in testing – developer, tester/QA

Estimating/forecasting test activities

Quality metrics

Risk-based testing

Exploratory testing

Code reviews

Static analysis

(Acceptance) Test-driven development (TDD)

Behaviour driven development

Test design techniques

Unit testing in UI development

Testing usability