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Methods & Tools - November 2018
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Dockerize your Tests and Selenium Test Environment Learn how to setup an isolated Selenium testing environment based on specific technology to run software tests using the Docker container platform. Read more...

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How to Quantify Quality: Finding Scales of Measure 'Scales of measure' are fundamental to a specification method we have developed called Planguage. They are central to the definition of all scalar attributes; that is, to all the performance (especially quality attributes) and resource attributes. You can learn the art of developing your own tailored scales of measure for the performance and resource attributes, which are important to your organization or system. You cannot rely on being 'given the answer' about how to quantify. You will lose control over your current vital system performance concerns if you cannot or do not quantify the critical attributes. Read more...

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I know plenty of teams that do all the right research activities, but these activities don’t influence their product decisions. They set out to build the same solutions they intended to build before they did their research activities.

They might make some UI tweaks based on what they learned in usability testing, but they rarely make significant changes to their solutions or choose alternative opportunities to pursue. This is akin to putting lipstick on a pig.

I want to see discovery activities leading to work being thrown away, ideas abandoned, and new directions chosen. If this isn’t happening, then a manager should step in and help the team connect their research activities to their product decisions.