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The Value of an Action

Friday May 10th 12am 5 0 Comments Testing Strategy
We can’t test everything. It’s impossible. There are too many test cases, too many actions we could potentially perform, too many edge cases and things that our users will come up with that we can’t even imagine.
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The Testing Industry's Automated Testing Tool Conundrum – and the Proposed Solution

Friday April 26th 7am 7 4 Comments Automation Testing
Most currently available automated software testing tools are platform-, technology- and/or operating system dependent. For example, you’ll find the typical testing tool vendor website provides a section on “Technologies Supported” and one vendor’s tool strength will be in the windows desktop market, while another’s might be in the browser market or in a combination of markets, but none will support all technology markets.
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Configuration Testing on Mobile Devices

Friday April 12th 12am 4 3 Comments Testing Mobile
Mobile software applications are becoming more prevalent in our daily lives A recent study published by Andrea Smith on Mashable highlighted just how much we as a society are addicted to our mobile applications, going so far as to say “Some people confess to using over 50 apps a day.” We see them everywhere, waiting in line, walking down the street, or even attending a sporting event. In fact, 82% of the respondents, people believed they couldn’t be without their mobile applications for longer than one day and if this sample reflected society, then these mobile applications need to work correctly, consistently as well as meet user needs.
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Blogs

Sitting With a Wizard

Friday January 18th 7am 9 1 Comment Software
Watching how computers are used in movies and TV shows can be amusing Some scenes have become (in)famous - the quote at the start of this post is from Jurassic Park
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Five Ways Testers Can Leverage the Internet

Monday January 7th 3pm 9 5 Comments Leadership Research STP Community News
This Blog was submitted by Phil Kirkham. Phil will become a regular Blog contributor in the future. If you want to become an STP Blogger reach out to me at Rhad@softwaretestpro.com to get started... As a Tester: Are you using the internet to improve your testing opportunities?
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When Things Come Full-Circle

Monday December 31st 2012 9am 3 4 Comments Software Software Test Professionals Conference Testing ST&QA Magazine
Where Matt talks about the past, the present ... and the the future.
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Podcasts

TWiST #131: History of the Quality Movement, Part 3

Friday January 18th 5am 3 0 Comments podcast
Where we conclude Matt's keynote with the lessons and takeaways from our previous century, and how we can learn from, and transcend, the good and bad lessons or our past.
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TWiST #130: History of the Quality Movement, Part 2

Friday January 11th 4am 4 1 Comment podcast
So now that we know how we got here, MAtt discusses some of the current trends and fads related to quality and where we are doing things right or wrong... for some definition of right or wrong.
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TWiST #129: History of the Quality Movement

Friday January 4th 5am 6 1 Comment podcast
Where Matt comes to us from the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference and asks "where have we come from, and is our history as true as we think it is?"
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Webcasts

Agile Testing Challenges: Four Years Later

Thursday September 20th 2012 8am 0 0 Comments podcast
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Advanced Software Testing: Reviews

Tuesday August 7th 2012 12am 0 0 Comments
Previously recorded on 8/7/2012
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Test Management and Quality Management

Tuesday July 3rd 2012 12am 0 0 Comments
Previously recorded on 7/3/2012
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Cartoons

All Animals Can Fly

Monday May 13th 12am 1 0 Comments Cartoon Management
At this moment he realized that the species he was talking to knew their business much better than he had expected.
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New Manager - Adaptive Difficulty

Tuesday April 2nd 12am 1 0 Comments Cartoon
After the meeting, they realized the new manager suffered from some adaptive difficulty.
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New procedure for build breakers

Thursday October 11th 2012 6am 3 1 Comment Cartoon
A new habit is about to start and it reminds me to the Dark Ages were thieves were put to the pillory, so everyone could see and shout at them.
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Whitepapers

Software Quality Optimization - White Paper

Friday March 1st 9am 0 0 Comments Test and QA Performance Quality Assurance Process Software
Balancing business transformation and risk.
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Managing COTS Test Efforts, In Three Parts

Thursday September 8th 2011 5pm 5 2 Comments Test and QA Strategy Management Software Test Professionals Conference
(Special STPCon Fall 2011 Offer Inside) - It’s Like Conducting an Orchestra! Imagine this:   You are a testing professional newly hired by a mid-to-large size company. Any industry. You are responsible for the testing of all of the company’s internal corporate systems---HRIS, Finance, ERP, CRM, CLM, Sales Management, and Knowledge Management to name a few. You have just been tasked with providing the testing strategy and test management for a large-scale commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) implementation. At first you think, “Hmm. A COTS vendor application that has already been developed, tested, boxed up, and released?!? This job is going to be a piece of cake!”
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A Lifecycle Approach to Systems Quality

Thursday June 23rd 2011 4pm 0 0 Comments Test and QA Requirements
...because you can’t test in quality at the end.
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Press Releases

Software Test Professionals Conference 2011 Commences

Monday March 28th 2011 12am 0 0 Comments Software Test Professionals Conference Agile Performance Management Automation Process Software Strategy Testing podcast
Nashville, TN at the Gaylord Opryland
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Software Test Professionals Conference & Expo 2010

Friday October 29th 2010 1pm 0 0 Comments Software Test Professionals Conference STP Community News Agile Software
Software Test Professionals Conference & Expo 2010, the leading conference for software test management and quality practitioners, concluded last week in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Software Test Professionals Association Announces Award Finalists

Wednesday September 1st 2010 2pm 0 0 Comments STP Community News Software Test Professionals Conference Awards Software Testing
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – August 31, 2010 - Software Test Professionals Association announced today that voting for the recipient of the first annual Software Test Luminary award will close this week.
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Industry PR

Changing the world of Testing for Software Testers across the world

Monday November 26th 2012 8am 0 0 Comments
A milestone was achieved by the QA team of 99X Technology, yesterday they successfully launched Sri Lanka’s first ever open source Reference Test Automation framework called “SeShell”.
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QA SYSTEMS LAUNCHES CANTATA 6.2

Thursday October 18th 2012 8am 0 0 Comments
- Cantata 6.2 provides faster, more thorough and widely compatible unit and integration testing, facilitating business and safety critical standard compliance -
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Clear2Pay and TestPlant unveil unique solution enabling full automated Mobile Payment App testing

Thursday October 18th 2012 8am 0 0 Comments
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Latest Comments

Comment on Crew: STP Online Summit - Test Automation: Anatomy, Architecture & Approaches

Yesterday at 3:13 PM
Hi Saurav. That is a great question and very crucial. The main answer is test design. I will assume for this answer that you have been in my talk earlier today, so I can use some terminology from the Action Based Testing method. Ideally the team should start with main business level test modules, and do interaction modules later. If modules have a good scope, and their design follows that scope, it will help keeping up with changing requirements.

Comment on Online Summit: Automation Online Summit: Test Design for Automation

Yesterday at 2:53 PM
We have so far never done so that I'm aware of. What we also have are "test suites", meant to organize the execution of test modules or individual test cases. In those it is more likely to see the same test cases being executed twice, for example against two different versions of the application under test. Brett, thanks for the questions. Feel free to email me directly as well in case you would want a more detailed discussion.

Comment on Crew: STP Online Summit - Test Automation: Anatomy, Architecture & Approaches

Yesterday at 1:50 PM
Linda Hayes' Recording is up... We will be editing the remaining recordings over the weekend - everything should be up by Monday morning.

Comment on Online Summit: Automation Online Summit: Automation Maturity: Planning the Next Step in Test Automation

Yesterday at 1:15 PM
I think he might be referring to a specific testing tool, such as QTP. When you develop automation, you typically need to understand what objects (such as buttons, lists, etc) you have in the application you're testing, and testing tools know how to do that. But they need to know what technology the application under test uses (HTML, .NET, Java, SAP, etc), in order to discover these objects. So my answer would be to talk to the developers. Ask them what technology the application is using, and check to see if your tool supports that technology, or if supports an alternative that might also work. As a last resort, you can use image-based automation, which uses complex image processing algorithms to discover and identify objects. This has been shown to be successful in cases where there is no programmatic way to discover the objects. And specifically regarding add-ins, it's important to only include the add-ins you actually need, because each add-in increases the footprint of the testing tool. I hope that answers the question.

Comment on Online Summit: Automation Online Summit: Automation Maturity: Planning the Next Step in Test Automation

Yesterday at 1:08 PM
Rajesh got in a question right at the end that I missed. Here's his question: What is the best guide to follow which add in required for different applications (Technologies) ?




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