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History of Ideas in Software Testing

Monday March 23rd 2009 2am Rated 4 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.

Conferences on the cheap

Monday January 18th 2010 3pm Rated 0 9 Comments Agile Development Open Source Process Quality Assurance Software Testing Unit Research
I went to my first major software conference in 2003 - the Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Golden Rules of Testing

Tuesday May 10th 2011 11am Rated 48 8 Comments Agile Testing Process Management Automation Acceptance Integration
I've put together what I think are the golden rules of testing that still apply. So when someone says "that's not how we do it in Agile" (and believe me - they will) don't take none of it and stick with the basics.
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The Agile Process Creates Testing Puzzles... Which Are Solved When Agile Is Performed Correctly

Wednesday July 1st 2009 7am Rated 0 8 Comments Agile Development Process Performance Software Testing Unit User Requirements
Boon the mankind or over-hyped fad? Read this point-counterpoint and decide for yourself.
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The 3 A’s of a Successful Software Testing Job Interview

Tuesday August 17th 2010 11am Rated 15 7 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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On Creation

Tuesday December 29th 2009 9pm Rated 0 7 Comments Process Software Testing
In this bit of a lull between Christmas and New Years, I'd like to introduce something a little more lighthearted, a little further off the beaten path than my typical blog post.

Idealogy vs. The Software Process Naturalist

Thursday November 12th 2009 7pm Rated 0 7 Comments Process Software offshore
Several years ago, I worked with a company pursuing process improvement with the (then) brand new CMMI model.

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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New Ways of Thinking in Software Testing

Monday November 28th 2011 6pm Rated 11 5 Comments Agile Software Test and QA Technology Strategy Process Editorial
Five years ago, Cem Kaner held up his cell phone.

Performance/ Improvement, not "Process" Improvement

Wednesday November 25th 2009 2pm Rated 0 5 Comments Performance Process
Would you be willing to go on a little experiment with me?

Manager's Toolkit: Building a Testing Organization

Thursday October 21st 2010 2pm Rated 11 4 Comments Software Testing Management Leadership Process
Step-by-step approach to re-organize, maintain or grow a previously existing testing organization.
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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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Why Chaos?

Friday September 18th 2009 2pm Rated 0 4 Comments Process Testing Unit Web
My old blog "Creative Chaos" has moved to this web address: http://blogs.

Outsourcing Confidential

Tuesday September 1st 2009 7am Rated 0 4 Comments Management Services Development Process Jobs offshore
A long-time software testing consultant shares stories from the trenches, and not all of them end well.
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Standards?

Tuesday January 16th 2007 1pm Rated 0 4 Comments Agile Process
To paraphrase Tom DeMarco, I am all in favor of product standards.

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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Maybe it is like building houses

Thursday December 29th 2011 11am Rated 6 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.

Productivity Killer: Sociopaths in the Organization

Monday April 4th 2011 12pm Rated 5 3 Comments Software Testing Test and QA Performance Process Project Management Quality Assurance
Matt continues his series on productivity killers by taking on a serious problem ... that nobody talks about

Technicians Vs. Professionals

Wednesday April 20th 2011 8pm Rated 4 3 Comments Software Testing Performance Process Teams Strategy
Matt continues his series on the productivity killers you /won't/ find in the textbooks
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