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Possum Testing – Defining Fearful Testing

20 hours ago 5 0 Comments Testing
A possum is a marsupial introduced into New Zealand around 1837 to help establish a fur trade. The problem with possums in New Zealand is that they are considered to be pests with up to 30 million possums destroying native vegetation and fauna. Why am I talking about possums?
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Bucket full of Bottlenecks

Thursday May 17th 9am 5 1 Comment Performance Testing
For years I've seen a few super-guru performance engineers impress everyone by walking into the lab and with just 2-3 clicks through the code casually proclaim: “Sure, you just need to tweak the buffer setting in the max_connections_kernel_init.xml file to match the incoming parameters for the extension listing sequencer” with an “everybody-knows-that-one” attitude. I figured my dream of becoming that cool could never happen. Or could it?
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Changes Afoot: Thought You Should Know

Thursday May 17th 12am 0 0 Comments STP Community News
The STP Insider and TQA e-news publications will be delivered on a new schedule starting June 1st 2012. In an effort to respect the busy schedule (and ever burgeoning in-boxes) of our members and the subscribers to our e-newsletters, we are moving to a monthly schedule for both publications.
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Blogs

Daring Greatly

Yesterday at 7:22 PM 2 0 Comments Testing Software Conference Presentations
Where Matt talks about an idea he had for a testing conference, and how it is turning out
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Three Ways to Make a Case

Tuesday May 15th 10am 3 0 Comments Editorial
Where Matt talks about some classic issues in arguments, written and verbal communication
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Real Options

Tuesday May 8th 10am 1 0 Comments Software Testing Agile
Where Matt talks about holding options, instead of exercising them early
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Podcasts

TWiST #96 - Hard Questions and Agile (Part II)

Friday May 18th 6am 2 0 Comments podcast
Wherein the panel at STP-CON Spring 2012 discusses adding value for customers, looking at real changes, and realizing that one size never really fits all.
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TWiST #95 - Hard Questions and Agile (Part I)

Friday May 11th 6am 3 0 Comments podcast
We're in group mode this week from STP-Con in New Orleans. Looking for some calm and mellow conversation about Agile practices and Kanban vs. Scrum? You're probably not going to find it here. Looking for energetic talk and possibly some disagreements? You've come to the right place.
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TWiST #94 - SoLoMo, Part II (w/ Matt Johnston)

Friday May 4th 6am 2 0 Comments ST&QA Magazine Mobile Services Test and QA
It's back to STP-Con in NEw Orleans for the conclusion of Matt's talk about how Social, Local and Mobile have changed the landscape, and how we as testers have a golden opportunity
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Webcasts

Managing Quality within Budget and Schedule Constraints: Successful and Unsuccessful Techniques

Thursday February 16th 12pm 2 0 Comments Quality Assurance
Previously recorded on February 9, 2012
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The Sherpas of Testing Success: Studies of Successful Independent Test Groups

Thursday January 12th 11am 0 0 Comments
How can independent test teams guide an organization to success?
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Five Trends Affecting Testing: Five Years Later

Tuesday January 3rd 3pm 0 0 Comments Automation
The trends: globalization; test automation; commoditization; compliance, regulation, and tort law; and, education and certification.
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Cartoons

Giraffe Accessible

Friday March 9th 12am 0 0 Comments Cartoon
A reference to compatibility in general. For instance, browser compatibility. What works for FF, doesn't necessarily work for IE and/or other kinds of web browsers.
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YU55 Near Miss

Friday January 6th 8am 2 0 Comments Cartoon
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Testers meeting at the bar

Thursday October 6th 2011 8am 8 3 Comments Cartoon
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Whitepapers

Managing COTS Test Efforts, In Three Parts

Thursday September 8th 2011 5pm 4 1 Comment 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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Drive innovation with a collaborative requirements-driven quality solution

Tuesday November 2nd 2010 9am 0 0 Comments Requirements Software Development
Organizations continue to face an unparalleled rate of change. And while decision makers understand that to be successful their organizations must continually innovate—to seize new business opportunities, achieve key objectives and execute with reduced cost and risk—keeping up with business needs is a constant struggle.
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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

WEB PERFORMANCE LOAD TESTER PRO™ 5.0 GENERATES UNLIMITED VIRTUAL USERS

Monday May 7th 3pm 0 0 Comments Load
Durham, NC – April 25, 2012 – Website traffic continues to increase while expectations for web page load times are now under a second. To meet the demand for testing with very large numbers of users Web Performance, Inc. has released Load Tester PRO™ 5.0, load testing software which generates traffic of up to 1,000,000 virtual users on complex, dynamic websites under a new, affordable flat-rate pricing structure.
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COLLABNET LAUNCHES SCRIPTABLE SUBVERSION MANAGEMENT CONSOLE

Thursday March 8th 3pm 0 0 Comments
New REST APIs simplify Subversion deployment and integration
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Introducing the new ISTQB® Certified Tester “Expert Level”

Wednesday January 11th 7am 0 0 Comments Certification
Software quality assurance and testing is a challenging field of work, and it continues to get more challenging. With IT projects getting bigger and more complex, even experienced test managers need to broaden and deepen their know-how. For this, the ISTQB has just released a new certification scheme: The new ‘Certified Tester Expert Level’.
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