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History of Ideas in Software Testing

Monday March 23rd 2009 2am Rated 5 21 Comments Agile Performance Automation Metrics Development Acceptance Exploratory Functional Integration Process Software Strategy Testing Teams Unit Six Sigma selenium Web
Yesterday I started reading Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Crispin and Gregory.

Non-Functional Testing?

Thursday February 1st 2007 1pm Rated 2 8 Comments Functional Software Testing
There's an interesting discussion going on at the Association For Software Testing discussion list on non-functional testing.

Tips on Improving Test Coverage

Monday August 9th 2010 3am Rated 9 6 Comments Testing Agile Management Automation Development Functional Process Software Strategy Software Test Professionals Conference
I guess you are familiar with the situation. Testers have finished performing all planned tests and finally there are no high priority defects left unresolved. After the celebration is over, the application goes to production. The next day some customers are already complaining that they can’t even install the product. The whole engineering organization is embarrassed. why did it work in the testing lab, but not work in the customers’ environments? how did we miss the bugs that the customers reported? The subject of this article is to answer these tough questions by using proven practical tips.
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Automation Works When You Do

Saturday May 1st 2010 12am Rated 5 4 Comments Functional Life Cycle Process Quality Assurance Regression Test and QA Testing Automation
Why is the majority of testing still performed manually? True, many tools are too hard to use and maintain, but is that the only reason? Read on to find out what it really takes to make automation successful.

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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Test Automation - IV

Friday August 3rd 2007 11am Rated 0 4 Comments Agile Security Automation Functional Testing Tools
Right now one of the "louder voices in the room" for test automation is the "Agile" test automation voice.

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.

The Embedded Software Development Process

Monday October 11th 2010 12am Rated 1 3 Comments STP Community News ST&QA Magazine Development Exploratory Functional Process Software Testing Tools
What do you do for a living? Have you ever been asked that question at a party, by a family member, or in an elevator? I would guess most of us have. It is right up there with talking about the weather. What is your answer to the question?
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You Want to Launch When? Mobile App Testing Tips for Startups

Thursday May 19th 2011 12am Rated 5 2 Comments Mobile Testing Automation Functional Strategy User Web
The purpose of this article is to provide some essential tips and examples of how the world ’s most promising companies test their mobile apps .
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What will be the result of your tests?

Thursday June 3rd 2010 9am Rated 3 2 Comments Functional Development Membership Quality Assurance Test and QA Software
The STP website will be scrutinized and tested on a daily basis. What will be the result?

Extending Test Automation to Mobile Applications

Thursday May 19th 2011 12am Rated 1 2 Comments Mobile Automation Performance Testing Functional Trends Research
Mobile applications have revolutionized how people conduct business. However, as with any emerging technology, a number of unique challenges can arise when developing and implementing mobile applications.
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Don't Leave Security for Last

Wednesday March 3rd 2010 8am Rated 1 2 Comments Security Metrics Quality Assurance Management Acceptance Cloud Functional Testing Requirements Research Web
At the peak of the dot-com boom, my firm consulted extensively for large organizations concerned about the risks of Internet-based applications. My experience with one client in particular—we’ll call it Company X to protect its identity—remains the most palpable argument for integrating security throughout the software lifecycle.
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Women of Influence

Friday January 1st 2010 8am Rated 1 2 Comments Test and QA Agile Management Automation Functional Process Testing Certification Services Software Teams Career Web Tools
A diverse group of the world’s top women software testers — 13 in all — share career highlights and insights into the profession and the industry, past, present and future.
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Agile Projects: 6 Ways to Avoid the ‘Mini-Waterfall’

Friday January 1st 2010 8am Rated 0 2 Comments Agile Automation Development Testing Acceptance Functional Regression Teams Unit Web Tools
Don’t let one iteration cascade into the next. Follow these suggestions to streamline your testing.
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And More from Brian Marick

Friday July 11th 2008 1pm Rated 0 2 Comments Agile Functional
In sum: compared to doing exploratory testing and TDD right, the testing we’re talking about has modest value.

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.

The “World Series” of Test Requirements

Tuesday August 23rd 2011 8am Rated 4 1 Comment Requirements Management Development Acceptance Functional Integration Quality Assurance Software Unit User
We first met Jamie in the November/December 2010 issue where she took us step by step through the process of re-engineering a group of testers working on the ROSS project into a productive, efficient team with the emphasis on “team.” In this article, she moves beyond the test team to the requirements team in order to achieve better alignment resulting in improved efficiencies and better design in the end product.

Testing International Websites

Tuesday December 7th 2010 10am Rated 2 1 Comment Test and QA Testing Mobile Performance Functional Software Strategy Web
International websites – sites that support a multitude of languages and have a user audience that spans numerous countries and continents – introduce unique testing challenges. Based on different projects for different clients, I’ve needed to strategically plan testing for websites and mobile usage where the user base was large and spanned across the globe. Below are some sample challenges to consider and ways to address those challenges.
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TQA- Review “The Definitive Guide to Quality Application Delivery” by Don Jones an e-book.

Tuesday March 30th 2010 7am Rated 0 1 Comment Performance Membership Life Cycle Development Security Functional Software Testing Requirements

If you are part of the STP community you have received the opportunity to download a new e-book, “The Definitive Guide to Quality Application Delivery” by Don Jones sponsored by Micro Focus. This guide is an extremely comprehensive effort, and I have been finding it very helpful in my education about the role of testing in the Software Development Life Cycle. As a quality/testing professional you may find it interesting for different reasons but I thought I would share some thoughts and try to encourage you to take advantage of this complimentary resource from STP on behalf of the book’s sponsor Micro Focus.

This book is a complete guide so I can’t share it all but I chose some excerpts that I found interesting. The book is over 200 pages jammed packed with great resources for the testing professional and all functional roles in the development of quality applications. Don Jones does a great job organizing …
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