Comments on: Integrating Your QA Staff with Engineering in SCRUM http://www.ryannorris.com/2009/08/14/integrating-your-qa-staff-with-engineering-in-scrum/ managing software teams and delivering great results Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:58:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Evan Pankey http://www.ryannorris.com/2009/08/14/integrating-your-qa-staff-with-engineering-in-scrum/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Evan Pankey Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:57:32 +0000 http://www.ryannorris.com/?p=88#comment-44 Ryan, Nice post. The group that I'm with, Beacon16, is less canonically SCRUM than you've described, but we've come to similar conclusions as to the importance of QA as a value addition in the overall process. We use a single xml document to keep everyone on the same page. Software engineers base their coding on that document and our QA engineer uses it as a basis for building automated test suites. However we've found that manual testing is still important to find those edge and emergent cases that elude the current capabilities of automation technology (it's not semantic yet...lol). Ryan,

Nice post. The group that I’m with, Beacon16, is less canonically SCRUM than you’ve described, but we’ve come to similar conclusions as to the importance of QA as a value addition in the overall process.

We use a single xml document to keep everyone on the same page. Software engineers base their coding on that document and our QA engineer uses it as a basis for building automated test suites. However we’ve found that manual testing is still important to find those edge and emergent cases that elude the current capabilities of automation technology (it’s not semantic yet…lol).

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