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New Ways of Thinking in Software Testing

Monday November 28th 2011 6pm Rated 10 5 Comments Agile Software Test and QA Technology Strategy Process Editorial
Five years ago, Cem Kaner held up his cell phone.

On Duty

Thursday September 1st 2011 10am Rated 5 4 Comments Software Testing Editorial Quality Assurance
Where Matt talks about duty, trust ... and why there is no Podcast this week.

Are project heroes /actually/ bad?

Tuesday August 31st 2010 6am Rated 5 4 Comments Software Testing Test and QA Editorial Management
A little analysis around the cult of the hero and how we should respond to it
Basic

Who do you want to be tomorrow?

Monday February 21st 2011 11am Rated 4 4 Comments Software Testing Editorial Video
The slipper slope of advice ... and what to do about it

Ask the Tester

Monday December 20th 2010 9am Rated 6 3 Comments Editorial ST&QA Magazine Agile Performance Management Integration Software Testing Web
A U.S. Army Officer turned performance tester, Scott Barber is probably best known as the co-author of Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications by Microsoft Press.
Basic

What does it mean to be a 'test expert'?

Friday June 4th 2010 4am Rated 5 3 Comments Editorial Essentials Testing Performance Software Unit
So we've got this new crew 'Ask the test expert.' What does that mean -- and how can you get involved? Matt Heusser lends his two cents.

Maybe it is like building houses

Thursday December 29th 2011 11am Rated 3 3 Comments Software Test and QA Development Editorial Process Strategy Teams Testing
Where Matt points out that the folks claiming that software dev is like building houses not only don't understand software development ... they probably don't understand building houses, either.

Are you in the right band?

Tuesday October 18th 2011 10am Rated 3 3 Comments Software Test and QA Testing Editorial Leadership
Where Matt Heusser talks about learning, improvement, and some counter-intuitive system forces that dance around it

Collaboration Wins

Monday November 7th 2011 11am Rated 2 3 Comments Testing Software Test and QA Editorial
Where Matt talks about collaborative software testing. (No, don't groan, he won't turn it into another buzzword. Oh, um ... perhaps it's too late ...)

And Now, The Women!

Friday January 1st 2010 8am Rated 1 3 Comments Editorial Software Testing
Guest editorial: Fiona Charles on the evolution of STP’s “women testers” issue and why this topic is critical to the industry
Pro

Quality Vs. Quantity - II

Monday July 19th 2010 8am Rated 5 2 Comments Editorial Exploratory Quality Assurance Testing Management Automation Software
Matt Heusser discusses the difference between pure numerical measurement and systems thinking/evaluation.

Source of (test) power - II

Tuesday September 14th 2010 4am Rated 6 1 Comment Software Testing Test and QA Editorial Security Process
Where does power come from?
Basic

On Prediction

Tuesday November 2nd 2010 4am Rated 5 1 Comment Software Testing Editorial Test and QA Quality Assurance
It's 2010. Where are my flying cars? More seriously, if we can't predict who will win the elections today, how do we expect that counting bugs today will allow us to predict a ship date in six months? Matt Heusser explores the darker side of software test prediction models.

Sources of (test) power - IV

Thursday October 7th 2010 7am Rated 5 1 Comment Editorial Leadership Strategy Teams Software Testing
The power of the ask

More on SDETs

Thursday June 10th 2010 6am Rated 4 1 Comment Automation Editorial Future Test Leadership Testing Trends Test and QA Management Development Acceptance Software User
Matt Heusser revisits the question of "Are Testers going away?" re-introducing and refining his thoughts of the Software Development Engineer in Test, or SDET

The trouble with software

Monday February 7th 2011 6am Rated 3 1 Comment Software Testing Editorial Test and QA Tools
Matt covers one of the classic issues in software: From Business Intelligence to SQL and back again, developing software is still, well developing software.

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

The Test Industry’s Cartoonland Village

Wednesday July 1st 2009 7am Rated 0 1 Comment Editorial Agile Process Testing Cartoon Web
The test industry comprises diverse philosophies, but most with the same goals in mind.
Pro

What is the cost of a security defect, anyway?

Monday November 8th 2010 3pm Rated 7 0 Comments Software Testing Editorial Process Services
It seems that in software testing we throw numbers around like a crazy monkey throws bananas. But what do defects actually cost? Here's one example.

Quality Vs. Quantity - III

Monday July 26th 2010 7am Rated 5 0 Comments Editorial Software Testing Test and QA Trends Management
The end of a short series exploring alternatives to management by metrics alone.
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