Blurring the Lines between Developer and Tester

(Feature image: Courtesy of British Council) While this site is dedicated to helping anyone out there to become a great testing professional, I sometimes feel that I need to pass on some traditional wisdom as well. You cannot just shape your skills alone, you need to prepare yourself for the future as well. Sometimes I…

Technical team engagement for reviewing vendor contract

More and more companies are slowly transitioning to a vendor based delivery model. Let it be engagement of a vendor to deliver a project or outsourcing application development to an external agency, this is now becoming quite common. Running IT as a business is the new approach for private and public organisations. Over the last…

Requirements Gathering – Lessons Learnt from IT Perspective

One of the key complaints when working on a project is that requirements are not explained properly or at times completely ignored or missed. Let it be the development team or the test team or the technical support team, each team depends on the business requirements document to complete their software development lifecycle (SDLC) process. So…

Agile in Private and Public Sector: To Be or Not To Be

  If you have never heard of the buzzword “Agile” before, then you must have been living in Mars! This is what every Manager wants to have, but not everyone can actually pull it off in its true sense. Being a big supporter of agile technology, I have found the experience of implementing agile methodology…