The world of software development is a constantly changing environment, with new tools, philosophies and paradigms being released ever more frequently. Unfortunately, not all of these shiny things will help your business and the development function to prosper. Magna Faber’s constant review of the industry enables us to quickly bring your development function up to speed, supporting increases in productivity, quality and assurance.

With a focus on enhancing the team dynamic, Magna Faber, through the use of interactive training, worked examples and hands-on experience can change the way your developers work, shortening development cycles and improving software quality.

When someone becomes a tester, they will spend a large amount of time focussed on the details of what to test, getting wrapped up in the details of their target project. Over time, this philosophy leads to a collection of tests that suffer from a number of issues: a large number of tests that are infrequently executed, a test plan that is difficult for others to follow, a risk that the software develops faster than the test plan, overly complicated tests, tests that take a long time to execute, a collection of blunt and unhelpful tests when it comes to solving the bugs that the tests have uncovered, a set of tests that are not comprehensive.

To address these issues, tools, techniques and philosophies are available that will result in a suite of tests which can be run frequently which provide comprehensive feedback on the exposed bugs and that track the software under-test as it develops. These advanced techniques are sometimes ignored by testers as they strive to meet business deadlines for testing of new software and can lead to a business resource sink.

Mentoring of testing teams through a combination of training, worked examples and hands-on support for your projects can leave your testing teams much more flexible to handle all your future testing requirements.