Practical QA course

QA in a Development Team: From Task to Release

Everyday QA collaboration with developers, analysts and product: requirements, sprints, Scrum events, change verification, releases, defect escalation, incidents and difficult conversations. Step-by-step scenarios, example messages, practice, templates and quizzes.

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Lesson 11. QA in a product team

Explanations, examples and practice

ArticlePeople, working agreements and a task’s journey
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Lesson 22. Requirements, refinement and readiness criteria

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ArticleTurn a vague idea into verifiable rules
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Lesson 33. Sprint Planning and work within a sprint

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ArticleA shared plan, goal and real capacity
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Lesson 44. Daily Scrum, blockers and daily collaboration

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ArticleA short update that helps adapt the plan
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Lesson 55. Development, pull requests, CI and test environments

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ArticleHow QA verifies the intended change
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Lesson 66. Defects, triage and escalation

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ArticleFrom reproduction to an agreed decision
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Lesson 77. Sprint Review and Retrospective

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ArticleFeedback about the product and the way the team works
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Lesson 88. Releases, go/no-go and recovery

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ArticleHow to prepare and verify a release
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Lesson 99. Incidents, hotfixes and postmortems

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ArticleRestoring service and learning after a failure
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Lesson 1010. Disagreement, conflict and difficult conversations

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ArticleHow to discuss a problem and reach a decision
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Lesson 1111. Remote work, dependencies and work flow

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ArticleKeeping work visible across people and teams
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Lesson 1212. Workshop: a sprint, a release and a team decision

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ArticleWork through the complete Slot issue lifecycle
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