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Linda Hayes







LINDA HAYES has founded three software companies, including AutoTester, which produced the first PC-based test automation tool. She is currently the founder of test automation tools maker WorkSoft and an independent consultant.

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Enterprise Process Assurance: The Missing Link

Tuesday October 25th 2011 8am 4 1 Comment Process
The implementation of packaged enterprise software changes the dynamics of the relationship between the business and IT, creating new opportunities, risks and challenges. The business gains the control and flexibility to tune business processes more quickly and easily, as well as the power to integrate those processes end to end across the enterprise. But these advantages also shift responsibility for validation from IT to the business, introducing new risks and organizational challenges.
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Achieving Value with Automated Acceptance Tests

Monday October 10th 2011 12am 7 7 Comments Automation

Requirements Are Like Pornography

Friday June 18th 2010 1pm 4 1 Comment Life Cycle Quality Assurance Requirements Development Unit
When the Supreme Court of the United States was called upon to distinguish pornography from art, one of the justices famously opined that “I cannot define it, but I know it when I see it”. The conundrum of developing a legally enforceable description of what is and is not an acceptable work of art is disturbingly akin to the challenge of defining software requirements.
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Writing Programs to Test Programs

Monday June 14th 2010 4pm 9 1 Comment Automation Best Practices Development Exploratory Functional Project Management Quality Assurance Regression Technology Testing Test and QA How To
.If your current testing is more exploratory than declaratory, you are going to dig yourself a deeper hole by trying to turn it into software. Discover the difference between automating the execution of a test and trying to automate the tester.
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The Automated Testing Handbook

Wednesday June 9th 2010 1pm 17 6 Comments Automation Quality Assurance Test and QA Technology Testing
The risk of software failure has never been greater. The estimated annual economic impact ranges from $60 billion for poor testing to $100 billion in lost revenues and increased costs. Unfortunately, market pressure for the delivery of new functionality and applications has also never been stronger. This combination creates increasing pressure on software test organizations to improve test coverage while meeting ever-shorter deadlines with static or even declining resources. The only practical means to achieving quality goals within the constraints of schedules and budgets is to automate.
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