While code review is vital in maintaining code quality, the modern agile environment demands more collaborative efforts within development teams. Peer code review alone is insufficient. It is necessary to establish clear coding standards and comprehensively understand user requirements to uncover potential bugs, even with code reviews. This eBook delves into the significance of code quality and its integration within collaborative development processes.

The research, conducted by SmartBear, aims to identify the most recent benchmarks and gain valuable insights into the future direction of the API industry. The study examines the latest methodologies, practices, and tools software teams employ worldwide. The data was collected from a diverse group of over 1,100 API practitioners and customers representing various industries and companies of various sizes.

Agile teams face the challenge of accommodating evolving requirements while constantly delivering new features. This raises a crucial question: should tasks be automated or performed manually? While automated tests offer speed, they require an initial setup and ongoing maintenance. This article explores the comparison between test automation and manual tests, offering a guide to assist you in determining the optimal testing approach for your project's test cases.

By adopting Agile principles such as collaboration, iterative development, and continuous feedback, you can effectively respond to changing requirements and market dynamics. However, these transitions take time and effort. Shifting from sequential, linear development to Agile can be daunting without the proper mindset and tools, including test management tools. This article delves into the testing challenges associated with digital transformations and guides on selecting the appropriate tools to navigate this transition successfully.

Many teams rely on automated functional tests to scale their efforts, but these tests often overlook an essential aspect: the visual appearance of the user interface (UI). Successful QA teams utilize automated visual testing tools (like SmartBear's VisualTest) to address this issue. These tools offer a faster and more reliable way to ensure a high-quality user experience.

Behavior-driven development (BDD) is gaining significant recognition for its distinctive capability to achieve agile objectives through improved collaboration. BDD revolves around establishing a common understanding of software behavior, but it necessitates a shift in mindset and tools, especially for quality assurance teams. This article explores the concept of BDD, the reasons behind its adoption by enterprises, and its implications for QA testing teams. 

If you are in need of a test management solution to effectively organize your tests, streamline automation, and generate insightful reports, or if your current test management solution is not meeting your requirements, an ebook can assist you in evaluating and selecting the right solution. 

This article explains the differences and similarities between DevOps and Agile methodologies. DevOps is a set of practices that focuses on collaboration between development and operations teams, with an emphasis on automation and continuous integration and delivery. 

User stories are essential to agile development, as they help teams prioritize user needs and experiences, putting the human element first. This comprehensive guide to Jira's user story features provides tips and best practices to help you make the most out of this powerful tool. 

The journey towards achieving enterprise agility can be likened to a long, winding mountain road that is neither easy nor straightforward. Attempting to take shortcuts along the way can lead to being lost, but with a map and a skilled navigator, reaching the destination is assured. This white paper aims to provide that map, offering a clear description of the Five Phases of Enterprise Agility, which include the Agile Team, the Team of Agile Teams, the Scaling Agile Organization, the Agile Enterprise, and the Scaling Agile Enterprise.

Estimating the effort required for projects can be challenging, but Agile project management offers solutions to simplify the process. This comprehensive guide covers how to manage estimation in an Agile environment and explores popular methods for estimating with Agile teams. 

This white paper discusses the increasing adoption of DevOps in the public sector as government agencies recognize its benefits in improving software development speed and efficiency. It highlights the challenges of implementing new processes in this highly regulated sector and offers a guide to help overcome these challenges.