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Agile Testing... Why Dig into the Technical Design

Wednesday September 1st 11am 2 1 Comment Agile
There are cases where not knowing the inner working of your application is a valid approach to testing. However, I believe that we may make incorrect assumptions when we don’t learn the technical aspects of our software projects and could expose ourselves to unnecessary risks.
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Ways to Improve Your Software Testing Skills

Wednesday September 1st 8am 9 5 Comments Test and QA Conference Presentations Development How To Training
Ongoing self-discovery and learning have been critical in my own skills growth, and in managing test departments. Even after mastering a technique or achieving a desired outcome, my experiences have shown there is always a better way to do something. Learning new skills is critical for being able to discover those improvements.
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How Dynamic Memory Allocations Can Affect Performance

Tuesday August 31st 9am 1 0 Comments Best Practices Development How To Metrics Performance Quality Assurance Software
This article will explain how dynamic memory allocations and frees can affect application performance. The article also discusses how testers can help find these bottlenecks and solutions that developers can implement to fix these bottlenecks.
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Blogs

Friday - TWiST Day!

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Just call on me, and I'll send a pointer to Twist#10 along, with love, from me, to you ...
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Are project heroes /actually/ bad?

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A little analysis around the cult of the hero and how we should respond to it
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A Pointer to TWiST #9 - With Henrik!

Friday August 27th 2pm 2 0 Comments Software Test and QA Testing
Matt Heusser Interviews Henrik Andersson, from House of Test, on the latest in This Week in Software Testing
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Podcasts

Twist #10 - Performance Testing with the greats

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In Twist 10 Matt Heusser Interviews Goranka Bjedov and Dan Downing about performance testing, what it's like to work at Google - along with some of the dynamics on performance testing projects.
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Twist #9 - Henrik Andersson

Friday August 27th 12pm 9 1 Comment
Matt Heusser interviews Henrik Andersson on how he became a tester, working in a regulated field, along with some of Henrik's consulting work, helping organizations move toward an exploratory test based strategy.
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Twist #8 - With Annie-Marie Charrett

Friday August 20th 9am 3 0 Comments
Matt sits down with Anne-Marie Charrett, the "Irish Stallion" to talk about software testing, international standards, and mentoring. Wait. It's /Italian/ Stallion, and it's Rocky Balboa, and he's just a character in a movie. Close enough?
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Webcasts

Local Interest Chapter Informational Webcast

Monday August 9th 11am 0 0 Comments STP Community News Membership Software
We featured a webcast that will help support the ongoing effort to expand the Software Test Professionals Local Chapter implementation. If you have an interest in becoming involved in Local Interest Chapters meetings listen to this webcast.
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Webcast: Performance Testing Value Propositions

Monday August 9th 10am 2 0 Comments Performance Leadership Life Cycle Testing Test and QA Membership Software
Recorded webcast featuring Scott Barber now available.
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3 Reasons Your Automated Test Isn't Automatic—and How to Fix It

Wednesday August 4th 7am 0 0 Comments Automation Test and QA Testing STP Community News Management Services Membership Cloud Software
August 2010 Software Test Professionals Member Webcast
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Whitepapers

Software Quality Optimization - White Paper

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Balancing business transformation and risk.
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Software Test Professionals is proud to add another Test Cartoonist to the website and community, Torsten Zelger (T.J.). It is nice to get an occasional injection of humor into the daily grind. Torsten is located in Switzerland and is a Test Automation Expert by title. We are pleased to add his cartoons to the website and STP publications. I hope you’ll welcome him and check out his latest cartoon!
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Agile v Traditional Housekeeping methods

Thursday August 19th 1pm 1 1 Comment Cartoon Agile
Agile v Traditional Housekeeping methods
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This Isn't Just a Tester

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Industry PR

ETA INTRODUCES PRESYS ADVANCED FINITE ELEMENT MODELING ENVIRONMENT TO THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET

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First Tool in Inventium Suite introduced to Japan, South Korea, and Chinese markets
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Seapine Software Announces the Release of QA Wizard Pro 2010.2

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Vermont Information Processing (VIP) has been providing business solutions to beverage wholesalers since 1972. The company develops software solutions that handle every aspect of the beverage distributorship, streamlining warehouse efficiency, cutting costs, managing inventories and forecasting sales. Market consolidation forced a period of accelerated development upon the company and it was the QA team that really felt the crunch. Customers became wary about upgrading. Now, with a much more robust approach to software quality an the introduction of new tools from Original Software, VIP has completely turned around its QA process and overcome its customers’ cautious attitudes. The company has now transformed into a software testing centre of excellence with happy customers who are keen to upgrade to new releases.
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Press Releases

Software Test Professionals Association Announces Award Finalists

Wednesday September 1st 2pm 0 0 Comments STP Community News Software Test Professionals Conference Awards
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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Redwood Collaborative Media Introduces Software Test Professionals Association

Wednesday June 23rd 9am 0 0 Comments STP Community News Performance Quality Assurance Software
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, JUNE 23, 2010 – Redwood Collaborative Media today announced a new association for Software Test and Quality Assurance Professionals. The new association was evolved from the STP Collaborative online community which launched last year and offers members a full complement of benefits that combine traditional professional association benefits, and a new, highly interactive website at www.softwaretestpro.com. The new direction and benefits for Software Test Professionals Association are the result of initiatives introduced by a new management team that has vast experience managing successful associations for IT professionals.
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