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4 Reasons Why You Must Consider Exploratory Testing Within Agile

Creating an application is no longer an easy task. There are a number of factors that you must consider while conceptualizing an application and finally getting it into motion. The user interface, technology, user profile, and devices are some key considerations that application makers consider before diving into the application development process. Nevertheless, the times are changing and so are the expectations and preferences. This means that you need a process that enables you to keep exploring, learning, and executing constantly. That's where exploratory testing blends in within the Agile environment.

If you just begin to understand the benefits of exploratory testing, you will realize how business critical it is, especially in the current scenario of absolute digital chaos. In a practical sense, it enables testing teams to keep up with the Agile development process. 

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Creating a Company Culture Where Agile Will Thrive

When I teach classes on the root causes of Agile project failure, I’m often asked which of the causes is most difficult to overcome. From an enterprise perspective, that is an easy answer: bad culture.

Sociologist Ron Westrum defines culture as “the patterned way that an organization responds to its challenges, whether these are explicit (for example, a crisis) or implicit (a latent problem or opportunity).” Westrum believes every organization fits into one of three cultural patterns: pathological, bureaucratic, or generative.

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Reasons for the Failure of Agile in Organization

We often talk about Agile and its benefits in an organization. Everybody knows that using Agile will bring a lot of long-term benefits which can be related to profit, better team, better quality of software, and lot more. Do we ever wonder, though, what the success rate of Agile projects is, and why Agile projects fail?

1. Lack of Management Support

Agile cannot be implemented without the support of management. Let’s discuss two different organizational scenarios for management support in detail:

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Is Your Scrum Team Really Agile?

Scrum is a framework used effectively across industries to address complex adaptive problems. It creates a setup where developers, testers, and business users make a cross-functional team and work closely within rules and values of Scrum to create beautiful products with agility.

You may be following all the Scrum principles, values, and rules stringently, but still may not be as Agile as you can be. Every Scrum team needs to have a global look at Scrum in terms of tools and practices, irrespective of their role, and see what can be done to increase agility. If your team faces one or more of the following issues, then you need to re-visit your way of doing Scrum.

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Digital Transformation Is Tougher Than You Think. Here’s What Can Help.

How hard is it to digitally transform an enterprise? A lot harder than you might imagine. That’s the message delivered by a recent survey, the “MuleSoft Connectivity Benchmark Report 2018.” MuleSoft surveyed 650 IT decision makers around the world and found how important they believe digital transformation is. The report also highlights how difficult it has been for them to digitally transform their enterprises and far they are from achieving their goals.

The report starts out warning, “To put it bluntly, those organizations that fail to digitally transform will start to lose revenue, and fast…But for many organizations, there are still huge barriers to digital transformation like integration, lack of resources, and misalignment between IT and the rest of the business.”

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See? It Is Easy To Get Off Track

One of our vehicles needed some recall work to be completed, so Nicole and I made the drop-off the night before the appointment and left the keys in the specially designed drop-box near the service entrance of the dealership.

The following afternoon, Nicole and I arrived back to the dealership. She went inside to get the receipt for the work and I went over to look at the vehicle parked nearby. When I was about halfway there I heard her say, "The keys are in it."