The Sprint Goal is an objective set for the Sprint that can be met through the implementation of Product Backlog. It provides guidance to the Development Team on why it is building the Increment. It is created during the Sprint Planning meeting. The Sprint Goal gives the Development Team some flexibility regarding the functionality implemented […]
Read MoreThe 3-Question format is the most popular format for Daily Scrum. The 3 questions focus on 3 things What did I do yesterday which helped the team get closer to the sprint goal? What will I do today which will help the team get closer to the Sprint Goal? Are there any impediments which will […]
Read MoreAmazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. As written in the EC2 post, the instance stores are temporary storage. The Instance stores may get deleted if the instance terminates or of there is a disk failure. Each EBS volume is automatically replicated within its availability zone […]
Read MoreAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a primary web service provided by AWS and it provides re-sizable compute capacity in the cloud. Compute refers to the computational power required to fulfill your work. Amazon EC2 allows you to acquired compute power through launching of virtual servers called as instances. When you launch an instance, you […]
Read MoreWhat is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database storage, applications, and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Whether you are running applications that share photos to millions of mobile users or you’re supporting the critical operations of your business, a cloud services […]
Read MoreUser story is one of the popular way of writing requirement in Agile. Lot of Agilists prefer the User Story format. However, that is not the only way of writing requirements in Agile projects. You could write requirements in many ways, for e.g.Use Cases, Business Requirement Specification, BDD etc Scrum is a framework. That means, […]
Read MoreIn an Agile testing team, testers must closely collaborate with all other team members and with business stakeholders. This has a number of implications in terms of agile tester skills must have and the activities they perform within an Agile team. Agile Tester Skills A tester in an Agile team should be competent in test […]
Read MoreSome of the options while deciding the strategy for structuring of Agile Testing teams are as follows Testers Embedded into the Development Teams : Independent testers are often more effective at finding defects. In some Agile teams, developers create many of the tests in the form of automated tests. One or more agile testing engineer […]
Read MoreContinuous Integration is an enormous step forward in productivity and quality for most projects that adopt it. It ensures that the teams working together to create large and complex systems can do so with higher level of confidence and control then is achievable without it. CI ensures that the code that we create (as a […]
Read MoreDevOps Tool – Cucumber is a tool based on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework which is used to write acceptance tests for web application. It allows automation of functional validation in easily readable and understandable format (like plain English) to Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, etc. Cucumber feature files can serve as a good document for all. There […]
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