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Ways to Improve Your Software Testing Skills

Wednesday September 1st 2010 8am Rated 16 6 Comments Test and QA Conference Presentations Development How To Training Agile Black Box Software Testing Software Test Professionals Conference
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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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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Tutorials and Training

Monday June 4th 2007 2pm Rated 0 3 Comments Automation How To Training
In a response to my blog post on training, Mark wrote:I would worry more about the thrashing effect of a developer testing course which did not focus on a specific developer tool set.

The Tyranny of 'Things' - Part I

Monday June 20th 2011 11am Rated 3 2 Comments Software How To Strategy Process
Where Matt Talks about Personal Productivity Systems

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.

What Being a Context-Driven Tester Means to Me

Wednesday April 27th 2011 12am Rated 5 1 Comment Testing Performance How To Software Web
Article by Scott Barber, System Performance Strategist & CTO, PerfTestPlus, Inc. www.perftestplus.com
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Twist #27 - with Cem Kaner

Friday January 7th 2011 9am Rated 5 1 Comment Software Testing Test and QA Interviews How To Load Technology
Who's Cem Kaner? Who's Cem Kaner? You've got to get out more.
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Is Agile-Testing /better/ testing?

Monday June 7th 2010 6am Rated 4 1 Comment Agile Automation How To Testing Software podcast
If you just adopted Agile testing practices, would you test practices improve? And if they did, does that mean Agile is just another label for 'Good'?

Considering Code Coverage

Tuesday November 10th 2009 8am Rated 0 1 Comment ST and Pedia Automation Metrics How To Software Testing Web
When it comes to code coverage, what exactly are we measuring when we refer to “percentage of the application”?
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2007 - Potential Tutorials

Wednesday November 1st 2006 1pm Rated 0 1 Comment Agile Management Automation Development Acceptance Black Box How To Integration Leadership Regression Software Testing Requirements Career
I also have a ideas that could turn into half-to-multi day tutorials.

Twist #3, Jason Huggins, Selenium -- and more

Thursday July 15th 2010 10am Rated 7 0 Comments Automation Quality Assurance Software Testing Video Agile Cloud How To selenium podcast
Hear the latest podcast on Selenium, or read a tutorial or watch videos about testing. It's all here, folks. Step right up.

Jasmine, BDD for JavaScript

Tuesday June 21st 2011 9am Rated 6 0 Comments Test and QA How To Agile Automation Services Development Integration Open Source Process Testing Unit User Mobile Web
A few months ago, a meeting of Vienna JavaScript User Group (Vienna.js) introduced me to Jasmine, a Behavior Driven Development Testing Framework for JavaScript.
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Souces of (test) power - I

Wednesday September 8th 2010 6am Rated 4 0 Comments Software Test and QA Testing Strategy Teams Editorial How To Jobs Leadership Quality Assurance
What is power on a software project, and how can we build our power in order to have more influence? Read on, dear reader, read on ...
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Breaking News!

Tuesday August 17th 2010 6am Rated 4 0 Comments Technology Software Career Conference Presentations Essentials Future Test How To Leadership Management Metrics Process Project Management Quality Assurance Regression Requirements Six Sigma Software Test Professionals Conference Test and QA Testing Agile Performance Membership
Three days left to the get super-early bird rate for STPCon. Matt gives you the real skinny on the conference.
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A Sweet Little Test Example

Wednesday August 4th 2010 8am Rated 4 0 Comments Software Testing Quality Assurance Acceptance How To Unit
How many good, solid examples do we have to work through in software testing? Wouldn't you like to have one more?

How Dynamic Memory Allocations Can Affect Performance

Tuesday August 31st 2010 9am Rated 3 0 Comments Best Practices Development How To Metrics Performance Quality Assurance Software Process
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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Good Test Tools And How To Pick Them

Wednesday February 1st 2006 8am Rated 1 0 Comments Performance How To Load Software Web Tools
A performance tester discusses how to choose the right load-generation tool.
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How To Identify The Usual Performance Suspects

Sunday May 1st 2005 7am Rated 1 0 Comments Performance Development How To Load Software Testing Web
Consider this lineup of performance killers: failures, slow spots and bottlenecks. Can you tell them apart?
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Learning Styles

Wednesday February 9th 2011 10am Rated 0 0 Comments Certification Leadership Management Project Management Performance Software Test Professionals Conference Editorial How To Process Software Testing
How do you train your staff? Specialisterne has the additional problem that the bulk of our staff are diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. This leads to intense debate on appropriate learning styles.
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I just heard a great quote

Thursday May 28th 2009 4am Rated 0 0 Comments Agile Development How To Software
I was listening to "How To Build a Lean Startup" when one statement really struck me.
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