CYCLE BLOG
articles and information about continuous testing and behavior-driven development
Testing Pyramid for the WMS Mind
Why Are We Testing? Why did we get this cross-functional testing team together? Was it to see Ernie from Dev and Sally from Testing resume their blood feud over who ate the most of the release party cake in the office fridge? Sure that’s entertaining, but there...
Getting Down to Earth about Acceptance Criteria & Acceptance Tests
Acceptance Criteria and Acceptance Tests Sometimes it can feel like the Wild West when it comes to IT and business terminology! Frameworks upon frameworks exist at varying levels of specificity trying to help IT and business professionals not only make sense of their...
Three Things To Consider When Choosing A Test Automation Tool
Testing has become mission critical for organizations trying to keep up with consumer demand. While the Amazon effect is long in the tooth and well-known, COVID, stay-at-home culture and even work from home trends have lit supply chains on fire. Sourcing, planning and...
Decoding Test Automation Buzzwords
Decoding Buzzwords Let’s deconstruct and decode hype in the realm of test automation, and determine what buzzwords like “codeless” and “scriptless” really mean. The goal of these buzzwords, in addition to making a sale at the end of the day of course, is to relay to...
Your New Test Automation Checklist
What considerations should be included in your Test Automation Checklist? Your testing team should decide which tests to automate as early as possible. This information can be used to develop more accurate testing deadlines and better organize your test suite, and...
Moving Your Automated Testing Infrastructure to the Cloud
Let’s get specific on leveraging the cloud for your automated testing infrastructure. I’m James Prior, and one of my responsibilities at Tryon Solutions is to help bridge gaps between technical and non-technical folks. Over the last few months, I’ve been educating...
Unfreezing: A Simple Starting Place for Kicking Off Organizational Change - Part 2
In our first blog post on Unfreezing, we reviewed Kurt Lewin’s 3-Step model for change, which involves the three main steps of Unfreezing, Moving, and Refreezing. 2,3 We also highlighted three key processes needed to prepare an organization to change: 4 Challenging or...
The WMS Go Live: There is a Better Way!
"That was awful!", "We barely survived!", and "Never again!" are just a few of the many phrases I've heard uttered at the end of "successful" WMS go lives. A "go live" is the action of operationalizing changes to production systems and/or processes, often after months...
How to Write Effective Defect Reports
No matter how much test automation you have built-in to your overall test strategy, there will always be some amount of manual testing for things like edge cases, one-offs, visual acceptance tests, etc…You also want customers to have the ability to log defects they...
Using React and Typescript to Help Build a Sturdier Product
When planning began on the Example Set Viewer, the Cycle development team went in knowing that it was a mountain of a task – the crown on top of a story Cycle has been building for nearly a year. The Cycle team knew the importance of being able to easily manipulate...
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