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View webinar recording - https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/resource/agile-testing/scaling-agile-less-large-scale-scrum/
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View webinar recording here - http://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/resource/agile-testing/creating-agile-test-strategies-larger-enterprises/
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- Can you deliver the important risks right away?
- How can you communicate about the (process and product) risks your dealing with?
View Webinar recording: https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/resource/test-management/is-there-a-risk/
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View webinar - https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/resource/webinar/growing-company-test-community-roles-paths-testers/
Do we need testers on agile teams?
It’s the same argument again and again. One side says “team members should all be able to do everything, and the programmers should do their testing and all testers should be writing code”. The other side says “No, that can’t possibly work – programmers don’t know how to test, they don’t have the right mindset”. And on and on it goes.
http://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/resource/webinar/need-testers-agile-teams/
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- Setup your own infrastructure or connect to a cloud provider
-Dramatically improve test times with parallelization
https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/resource/webinar/use-selenium-successfully/
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Practical Test Strategy Using Heuristics
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https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/resource/people-skills/thinking-through-your-role/
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