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Are We in the Business of Quality Assurance or Quality Review?

Tuesday July 6th 2010 11am Rated 11 5 Comments Test and QA Quality Assurance Development Life Cycle Software Testing
There is a lot of discussion around the term Quality Assurance in the testing arena. Michael Bolton has a very popular Blog Post he is turning into a session at our October conference called “Testers get out of the Quality Assurance Business”. Words do mean things, and the change of positioning although seemingly small can often bring about greater understanding of the things we do in software testing, within the bigger picture of QA.
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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.

DaVita: a Quality Culture Focused on Flawless Execution

Monday October 11th 2010 12am Rated 7 3 Comments ST&QA Magazine Teams Metrics Life Cycle Development Process Software Testing Training Tools
DaVita is a unique place to work. The word DaVita means “giving life,” and when asked what our teammates (employees) do for a living, each is proud to respond with a simple answer: “I give life.” Providing dialysis treatments to one in three Americans with kidney failure only scratches the surface of what we do. We are a community first and a company second, and while we promote a healthy balance of work and life, we also expect the highest level of performance in everything we do. We believe the work that each of our teammates does directly affect the lives of our chronically ill patients – and that includes our IT team.
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Performance Testing within the Agile Methodologies

Tuesday June 1st 2010 12am Rated 7 3 Comments Agile ST&QA Magazine Performance Life Cycle Development Load Software Testing Unit
Software engineering and the programs generated from such initiatives have indeed changed the way business is conducted in every enterprise large or small spanning the globe. Furthermore, the way software is being constructed and managed today is rapidly changing as the environments, development tools, and methodologies evolve to fit the unique needs of every organization.
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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.

"The SDLC"

Friday June 8th 2007 11am Rated 0 3 Comments Life Cycle Development Software
There's been some great discussion on software-testing yahoo group lately.


An Actual Job Description I saw today -

Monday January 15th 2007 4pm Rated 0 2 Comments Life Cycle Development Software
For a senior programmer/analyst type .

Webcast: Performance Testing Value Propositions

Monday August 9th 2010 10am Rated 4 1 Comment Performance Leadership Life Cycle Testing Test and QA Membership Software Web
Recorded webcast featuring Scott Barber now available.

Requirements Are Like Pornography

Friday June 18th 2010 1pm Rated 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.

Cultivate Your Crop For High-Performance From The Ground Up

Sunday March 1st 2009 8am Rated 1 1 Comment Performance Test and QA Life Cycle Development Management Integration Load Regression Software User Web Tools
To grow the best-performing Web applications, you must nurture them from the start and throughout the SDLC.
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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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Test Automation and Coding – Parallel Life Cycles

Monday September 13th 2010 2pm Rated 10 0 Comments Testing Test and QA Software Development Automation Conference Presentations Software Test Professionals Conference Agile Life Cycle
An alternative approach is to start test automaton in parallel with product development and then reuse the automated cases while moving to the subsequent process phases. Such an approach can shorten the products’ time-to-market without compromising its quality, since testability and error coverage are built into the product.
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San Francisco, Silicon Valley Testers are Invited to a Local Roundtable

Monday June 7th 2010 10am Rated 1 0 Comments Automation Technology Test and QA Management Membership Life Cycle Development Software Testing
Join Rich Hand, Director of Membership & Publications for STP and Vladimir Belorusets, SQA Manager for Xerox at this free roundtable hosted by the good people of Robert Half Technologies... A special guest appearance by RHT's Executive Director Dave Willmer...

NY and NJ Testers are Invited to this Free Local Interest Meeting...

Friday June 4th 2010 12pm Rated 1 0 Comments STP Community News Leadership Test and QA Membership Automation Life Cycle Development Software Testing
“Testing Software Systems in the Financial Industry”; Navigating the complexity and regulation to deliver quality software…

Optimizing: Software Test Efforts: What You Need to Know

Monday August 9th 2010 3am Rated 0 0 Comments Agile Metrics Life Cycle Development Software Technology Testing Research
As a society, we've become heavily reliant upon software to make our personal and business lives more effective and enjoyable.
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How to Predict and Produce Software Quality Releases

Friday July 2nd 2010 3pm Rated 0 0 Comments Development Life Cycle Quality Assurance Management Software Web
Downloadable Webcast from Spectrum Systems Inc.

Get Involved

Wednesday April 14th 2010 12am Rated 0 0 Comments STP Community News Life Cycle Development Software
Join An Advisory Board The association of Software Test Professionals (STP) reflects the vision of the industry; provides timely valuable tools and resources as well as encourages member communication and collaboration. In order for STP to stay abreast of the industry trends and standards that directly impact the association we need members who are willing to collaborate on various advisory boards.

‘Testers Don’t Do Security Testing’—But We Should

Thursday February 1st 2007 8am Rated 0 0 Comments Security Life Cycle Development Management Software Testing Requirements Web
At first a skeptic, now I’m a convert: Though it was tough to admit, I know now that the full life-cycle approach is the only way we can achieve truly secure software.
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Model Driven Testing

Monday January 1st 2007 8am Rated 0 0 Comments Automation Life Cycle Development Process Integration Testing Requirements
To keep your automation running smoothly and boost all phases of the Java development life cycle, put UML 2.0 behind the wheel.
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