Can you trace the value of your user stories back to business outcomes? If not, you may be wasting valuable team time on your software projects. Follow this simple technique to ensure that all your user stories are delivering a valuable contribution to business benefit. This is an excellent way to prioritise your backlog. Identify [...]
Start user story testing On most software activity the user stories are a terse reminder of the conversations between product owner, developer and tester. Although user stories are very short, the form is commonly misused and this leads to ambiguity, unnecessary discussion and rework. In this article we set how to [...]
24th December 2020. ScopeMaster is featured by Gartner in a research paper on emerging technology in AI-Augmented Software Development. In their recent research paper on AI-Augmented Software Development, senior researchers Neil Barton and Arun Bachu, highlight ScopeMaster as a significant emerging technology that can help automate as much as 70% of software development work. "It (ScopeMaster) [...]
16th October 2020. Marlow, UK We are delighted to have been awarded the best DevOps cloud product of 2020 by the Computing DevOps awards judges. ScopeMaster helps DevOps teams deliver better quality software faster and with less rework, which means at less cost. ScopeMaster integrates with existing development tools such as Jira, Azure Devops, PivotalTracker and [...]
In 2020 ScopeMaster was nominated a finalist among many others to join finalists Vodafone UK and Chef Software. In the final judgement it beat all comers as the leading DevOps cloud product of the year.
Shift left - defined Shift left or shift left testing is the concept of performing quality assurance work as early as possible in the software development cycle to reduce the overall work required to deliver high quality software. Even in Agile there is a sequence that is followed in software development which is typically as follows: [...]
A Universal Technique to Improve Software Quality Everyone wants to improve software quality as much as possible, provided that it does not slow down delivering new functionality. It just so happens that there is a single technique that can dramatically improve the quality of software development. In this article, you will learn two key fundamentals: Knowledge [...]
How AI can help with requirements analysis tools This article was produced independently from an interview with one of our enthusiastic customers.
17th June 2020, Marlow, UK. ScopeMaster announces the auto-generation of requirements model diagrams from written software requirements. Rather like use case diagrams, this new charting feature allows you to explore your software requirements like never before, giving instant insight into validity, completeness, consistency and complexity. Many people think visually. ScopeMaster takes written requirements, interprets them analyses [...]
Large Software Projects Are Hard Large software projects are often delayed, exceed their budgets and in some cases fail altogether. They are hard to get right. If a project is on time, on budget, fully functional and to a satisfactory quality, it is considered successful. This type of success is rarely achieved. A constant stream [...]
ScopeMaster is able to help Devops teams deliver better quality software faster and with less rework, which means at less cost. ScopeMaster is able to integrate with existing development tools (such as Jira, Azure Devops etc) via its REST API and can provide continuous feedback on user story quality and size for CI/CD environments. The automated [...]
The folks at Lighthouse Technologies wrote this insightful review of ScopeMaster. Using AI to help software quality, "Scopemaster is an excellent start to achieving higher quality software"
