Couple of weeks ago I realised something. As an Agile tester it’s really hard to communicate bugs! Testers are known for bringing bad news, but it is not easy to do it correctly. Specially when you’re in a Scrum Team and the heat is really on with bugs or issues flying all around.

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Something that might interest the developers out there working with accessibility on iOS.

If you have strange behavior, as in, being unable to (partially) pick an accessibility frame by just dragging your finger over the screen, I might be able to answer just why.

As it turns out. VoiceOver and sub views being out of bounds of their parent’s view bounds don’t really mix. Read more

One of the basic ideas in Scrum is the backbone formed by Product Owner and the Agile Team, headed by their Scrum Master.
The Product Owner stands right in the middle of the business, knows every functional detail, is trusted and respected by his business colleagues. Furthermore he takes care of the acceptance and business implementation of products and features delivered by the Agile team.
The Scrum Master, with his team, takes care of the technical realization and delivery of new products and features.

Scrum advocates a very short, direct connection between the one who has a goal and the ones who deliver the solution to reach this goal. Scrum does not know a Projectmanager role. Traditional projectmanagement responsibilities are divided over the Product Owner and the Scrum Master roles.  Read more

A short while ago we were running into an interesting animation glitch. The actual solution is quite simple.

Here’s what the glitch was about. A table view could be toggled into an edit mode. On performing this toggle a label would be animated out of the view and hidden. The strange thing was, that this label was resizing it’s font size right the second before the actual animation started.

Fortunately we were able to fix this problem. Read more

Deployit provides fine-grained security settings based on roles and permissions and allows them to be configured through the CLI and in the GUI.

In this example, we’ll be setting up security roles using the GUI. The example environment has two applications, OnlineOrders and SiteSearch that are both deployed to a test server before going to production. There are two different teams developing and deploying the applications. One team can’t see the other’s team application. Moreover, developers can only deploy to the test environment. Deployers can deploy both to the test environment and to production.

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As part of testing and demonstrating our advanced deployment automation¹ platform Deployit, we at XebiaLabs use a lot of cloud and Devops tooling to be able to handle all the different types of middleware we support and build, CI and Ops tooling with which we integrate².

I was recently setting up a Vagrant³ environment to demonstrate Deployit’s Puppet module, which automatically registers new Puppet-provisioned middleware with your deployment automation platform to enable application-tier deployments to it, and ended up wrestling for quite some time with a tricky VirtualBox problem.
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As part of testing and demonstrating our advanced deployment automation¹ platform Deployit, we at XebiaLabs use a lot of cloud and Devops tooling to be able to handle all the different types of middleware we support and build, CI and Ops tooling with which we integrate².

I was recently setting up a Vagrant³ environment to demonstrate Deployit’s Puppet module, which automatically registers new Puppet-provisioned middleware with your deployment automation platform to enable application-tier deployments to it, and ended up wrestling for quite some time with a tricky VirtualBox problem.
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For a recent project we decided to use Backbone.js to provide structure to the client side of our RESTful Web application. Backbone.js is very much the vogue right now and since we already had an internal toy project that used Backbone.js we expected no big problems.

But of course we faced problems. No matter how good the example material is, it’s no substitute for actual experience. We gained this experience through our mistakes, and while there are already a number of articles online about the strengths, weaknesses and pitfalls of Backbone.js that I will include below, another article hopefully means good advice to those new to Backbone.js and a nudge in the right direction.

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For a recent project we decided to use Backbone.js to provide structure to the client side of our RESTful Web application. Backbone.js is very much the vogue right now and since we already had an internal toy project that used Backbone.js we expected no big problems.

But of course we faced problems. No matter how good the example material is, it’s no substitute for actual experience. We gained this experience through our mistakes, and while there are already a number of articles online about the strengths, weaknesses and pitfalls of Backbone.js that I will include below, another article hopefully means good advice to those new to Backbone.js and a nudge in the right direction.

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In 2009 Steward Reid predicted that within 10 years 70% of all software development would be done with some form of Agile methodology.  Due to the growing need for ‘’hands’’ this would result in having to employ also the less qualified testers on these projects. The first point he made is absolutely valid, the second point is only valid looking at it as a commercial opportunity (you don’t need hands if you work with qualified people), maybe he only said it to comfort the people who fear loosing their jobs because of this shift. It’s obvious that now Agile is becoming main stream there is a growing demand for qualified testers. Read more