This is the last article in the QA articles serie based on my conference talk about true QA process implemetation and how QA engineers could improve quality of your product. In the third part we discussed QA engineer role involvement in Daily Scrum and User Stories acceptance.

Almost all work from Sprint Backlog is done and team would like to prepare potentially shippable product increment. It is too late to build quality in, but again we have time to fix it at least for client visibility. One of essential activities at this stage is regression testing to make sure existing functionality works as expected.

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This is the third article in the QA articles serie based on my conference talk about true QA process implemetation and how QA engineers could improve quality of your product. In the second part we discussed Scrum process and QA engineer role involvement on planning phase.

OK, Sprint is planned and successfully started. The second point where QA engineers could affect quality is Daily Scrum.

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This is the second article in the QA articles serie based on my conference talk about true QA process implemetation and how QA engineers could improve quality of your product. In the first part we discussed difference between testing, QC and QA.

There is no such thing as universal best practices or silver bullets. So, to be concrete, we need first to define some context important for further discussion. In our case this context is development process. I have chosen Scrum as the most popular Agile methodology, but the same principles could be adopted for any iterative development approach. I hope everybody is familiar with Scrum, really hope after so active push from Agile community to use it everywhere during last 10 years. It seems most of you know it or at least think you know it.

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Этой осенью я выступил на нескольких конференциях со своим новым докладом про настоящий QA процесс и роль QA инженера в обеспечении качества продукта. Последний раз выступление было на английском языке и я решил в рамках подготовки сделать детальный план доклада. Не пропадать же добру, поэтому я решил доработать и опубликовать этот план в формате серии статей. В первой части будет вступление. Полные слайды доклада:

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