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Six Shocking Automation Truths

Tuesday August 3rd 2010 8am Rated 44 13 Comments Automation Best Practices Software Test Professionals Conference Software Web
By: Adam Goucher, Principal of Element 34 and STP 2010 conference speaker. These truths are shocking not only because they are counter to the prevailing best practices in the industry but because they can cause me – the consultant – to lose a billable opportunity. A client who saves money but achieves their objectives is often the happiest client.
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The 3 A’s of a Successful Software Testing Job Interview

Tuesday August 17th 2010 11am Rated 13 6 Comments Best Practices How To Interviews Leadership Management Process Software Testing
Over the past two years, the economy has taken various tumbles and turns, and companies are doing radical things with their IT departments. Outsourcing, offshoring, and layoffs are throwing good, senior testers, back into the interview process. If a tester has had little experience with interviewing, it can be a difficult transition.
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Why we really need to do performance testing....

Tuesday July 20th 2010 5pm Rated 2 4 Comments Best Practices Performance
Okay, there are probably lots of reasons why people feel that they need performance testing done on an application - complaints from users or customers, wanting to baseline the app at inception, because they read somewhere that they should, the monetized value of error avoidance.... I'm sure there are other reasons. But I think there is a much simpler reason, read on and find out what it is....

Testing Centers of Excellence

Monday February 1st 2010 8am Rated 1 4 Comments Best Practices Management Automation Development Case Study Process Technology Certification Services Functional Integration Software Testing Unit Web offshore Tools
CA is using its global test facilities to raise the bar on product quality and time to market.
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Ditch the Requirements - Focus on the Customer Instead

Thursday February 10th 2011 10am Rated 6 3 Comments Best Practices End to End Development Project Management Quality Assurance Requirements Agile Software Testing Software Test Professionals Conference
Quality can be defined as meeting the customers' needs. Juran posted this definition in 1988, defining quality as "fitness for use". Testers like this definition as it gives them a "north star" to guide their actions and it reinforces a role that most testers relish, that of customer advocate. However Crosby's older definition of quality as "conformance to requirements" still holds strong sway, and many test processes are guided by test cases correlated directly to requirements.

Testers With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Friday February 4th 2011 5am Rated 5 3 Comments Acceptance Best Practices Testing Software Quality Assurance Project Management Web Unit
Many people with an ASD – particularly those with Asperger syndrome – have a variety of sometimes exceptional skills that enable them to thrive in roles. An area of proven success is that of software tester.
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Automated Isn't Automatic

Saturday May 1st 2010 12am Rated 4 3 Comments Best Practices Functional Life Cycle Quality Assurance Regression Requirements Process
No matter how hard you try, you can't avoid the most important and challenging step in the software testing process--the first one. That is, the gathering and defining of requirements that will be tested. That step requires intelligence and skill that no automated testing tool can provide. Read on to find out what can - and can't - be automated.

Testing and Ethics

Friday June 11th 2010 2pm Rated 2 3 Comments Testing Software Best Practices
This is just an introduction to the whole idea of testing and ethics. Hopefully, we can start some longer discussions into the way that ethics play a part in testing.

Let's Embrace the Right Practices

Friday June 4th 2010 8am Rated 2 3 Comments Best Practices Test and QA
I can't help it. I feel compelled to respond to the article written in STP entitled "A Good-Bye To ‘Best’ Practices". I love that someone is putting this issue on the table but I respectfully disagree with the author. We as the community of testing professionals needs to address the issue of "best practices" with a response that is something more erudite than ".... I've never figured out what that means therefore there probably aren't any...." Not only is this unprofessional, it's also inaccurate. Let's consider the question from a different perspective....

What is Concurrent Testing?

Thursday July 28th 2011 10am Rated 4 2 Comments Testing Management Best Practices Quality Assurance Software Project Management Tools
In these days of web based computing, it is possible that the computer (server) may be simultaneously serving thousands of clients with thousands of processes in execution. In such a scenario, it is possible that the CPU may enter into a dead-lock situation.

Security Tools Must Support An Existing Process Not Define a New One

Thursday June 3rd 2010 10am Rated 4 2 Comments Security Software Test and QA Testing Best Practices Process Regression Tools
Trying to introduce Security Testing into your software process can be tricky, just like teaching an old dog new tricks. A good first step would be to introduce a great security tool into an existing process. For example, introduce static source code analysis by adding it to the end of your automated build process. The initial ramp up cost is low, the change in process churn is low, but the value can be very high.

Lessons Learned in Data Migration

Thursday June 16th 2011 10am Rated 3 2 Comments Best Practices Process Project Management End to End
When I began working on a data migration project last year, I did not have much idea as to what it could entail. I did not have much experience with data migration apart from having some theoretical knowledge of what one should consider for testing such a project scope.
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Real-Life Test Management Challenges & Suitable Solutions

Thursday September 23rd 2010 1pm Rated 3 2 Comments STP Community News Management Teams Best Practices Career Video Membership Software Web
Join us for this Software Test Professionals community webcast.
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Writing Programs to Test Programs

Monday June 14th 2010 4pm Rated 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.

Tester: Not Just a Role Within Itself

Thursday October 20th 2011 1pm Rated 8 1 Comment Management Testing Best Practices
Most organizations wish for a quality product but paradoxically, very few give importance to testing. Instead they prefer fixing bugs as they appear in production. The general idea of other organizations is that quality of the application lies in the hands of the testers and it is the testers sole responsibility to deliver it "bug free".

The Shift, From Stereotypical to Effective Tester

Thursday November 3rd 2011 8am Rated 4 1 Comment Process Best Practices
A stereotypical description of an application tester’s role is usually about being given specifications, reporting bugs, verifying and closing bugs. This stereotypical tester will have a part to play in a testing organization, but will always be considered an outsider to the project and will not have much impact on the project lifecycle.

Ensuring Code Quality in Multi-threaded Applications

Thursday June 30th 2011 11am Rated 2 1 Comment Test and QA Quality Assurance Best Practices Development Software Technology Testing
- The Technology Behind Static Code Analysis for Identifying Concurrency Defects Most developers would agree that consumers of software today continually demand more from their applications. Because of its pace of evolution to date, the world now anticipates a seemingly endless expansion of capabilities from their software, regardless of where that software is applied. For the last 40 years of computing, Moore’s Law has held true, with the number of transistors available in an integrated circuit doubling approximately every two years.

A Good-Bye To ‘Best’ Practices

Tuesday September 1st 2009 7am Rated 0 1 Comment Editorial Best Practices Case Study Performance Software Testing
Not all “best” practices are the best. Some are not even that good. This month we say goodbye to the Best Practices column and usher in the Case Study, in which we chronicle what works and what does not

Best Practices?

Friday June 13th 2008 5pm Rated 0 1 Comment Best Practices
Let's say you invite an Olympic marathon competitor and the Olympic Gold-Medal Winner in 100 yard dash over for a late afternoon lunch.

Raising the Bar on Quality Web Performance: Best Practices to Find and Resolve Problems Inside and Outside the Firewall

Tuesday June 1st 2010 12am Rated 4 0 Comments ST&QA Magazine Editorial Performance Best Practices Testing Web
QA and Testing: A Critical Line of Defense As a QA/testing professional, you are responsible for protecting your organization’s brand, customer experiences and online revenue by finding and resolving problems before your web end-users are impacted. However, to date, it’s estimated that 57 percent of application performance issues are actually found by (1), and that 65 percent of applications are deployed without proper load testing to ensure they can scale to support desired traffic levels(2).
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