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The Four Pillars of Testing in an Agile Environment

Wednesday July 1st 2009 7am Rated 0 5 Comments Agile Automation Development Exploratory Regression Acceptance Testing Unit Requirements
What’s most important when implementing agile testing in our organization? Learn from a self-made vertical solution provider who brought agile methods to his own company.
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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.

Basics of Test Automation: Part 1 - Introduction

Thursday October 18th 2012 1pm Rated 4 3 Comments Automation Best Practices Regression selenium Test and QA
Basics of Test Automation is a series of 3 articles. The first one being published below and called as "Part 1 - Introduction". There will be 2 more parts following soon. If you wish any particular topic to be touched upon on the subject, please drop a feedback here and I will be glad to include it in the next 2 parts. This part talks about- What is Test Automation and what benefits it brings. What are the costs associated, Is it truly more economical to automate? Real benefits, myths and true costs of Test Automation are listed out.
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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.


Security Tools Must Support An Existing Process Not Define a New One

Thursday June 3rd 2010 10am Rated 4 2 Comments Security Software Test and QA Testing Best Practices Process Regression Tools
Trying to introduce Security Testing into your software process can be tricky, just like teaching an old dog new tricks. A good first step would be to introduce a great security tool into an existing process. For example, introduce static source code analysis by adding it to the end of your automated build process. The initial ramp up cost is low, the change in process churn is low, but the value can be very high.

Basics of Test Automation: Part 2 - Test Automation Methodology

Monday November 5th 2012 8am Rated 3 2 Comments Automation Best Practices Regression Tools
This is the second in series for the Topic - Basics of test automation. Here we shall go through the steps as part of the automation methodology that we define. And brings us to a point where we can now start automation. ROI calculation will be published shortly as a intermediate story. The last in the series shall be published soon giving us the approach for automation - phase wise - task wise. Inputs appreciated!!
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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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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.

How Not To Automate

Monday March 7th 2011 1pm Rated 6 1 Comment Automation ST&QA Magazine Development Regression Software Testing
Every day testers are required to test more and deliver better quality in less time. Automation is generally the chosen approach to get more done in less time.
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Basics of Test Automation: Part 3 - Test Automation Approach

Wednesday January 2nd 12am Rated 2 1 Comment End to End Test and QA Testing Automation Error Handling Future Test Quality Assurance Regression
Here is the final part of the 3 article series and the simplest one to absorb. Once the methodology is finalised and understood, the next hurdle is to approach automation in a phased manner to implement our automation methodology. Here comes - Tasks and Phases for Test Automation from Test Planning to Maintenance of Test Suite. ROI and effort estimation have not been explained in detail. If you are looking for it, please let me know.
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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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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.

Web Test Strategy

Monday August 9th 2010 3am Rated 6 0 Comments Testing Strategy Agile Performance Management Automation Functional Load Regression Teams Unit Web offshore
Many organizations struggle with forming an effective web test strategy. Today’s interconnected world means software testing needs to move far beyond simple requirements validation, to include negative tests, performance and scalability tests, as well as a strong automation strategy. In this article, I will provide lessons I have learned over several years of testing at www.lds.org, www.expedia.com, and www.livemeeting.com. These lessons are the foundation for my strategy, no matter the web application I am testing.
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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 Roadmap to Streamlining SAP Automated Regression Testing - Part 1

Friday June 7th 12am Rated 3 0 Comments Test and QA Regression Automation
A Roadmap to Streamlining SAP Automated Regression Testing for Global Organizations focuses on the balance required between people, process, and technology to streamline and manage the creation and support of a robust SAP automated testing framework. Inspired by the author’s current role as a Global SAP Test Manager, many of the steps outlined in this roadmap may apply to your organization as well. The author outlines the challenges he has faced with an offshore/onshore model while highlighting the pitfalls that he has avoided and others he’s fell face first into. Balancing people, process, and technology are critical test strategy elements explored in this whitepaper.
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Ask the Tester

Thursday May 19th 2011 12am Rated 3 0 Comments Agile Development Process Regression Software Testing Teams Software Test Professionals Conference
Known locally as a sort of ‘dynamic duo’, Pete and Kristin are the Test Lead and Director of Software QA for ISD Corporation, a Zeeland, Michigan based firm that develops and delivers electronic payment software solutions for retailers.
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A Discussion About Bug Regression

Tuesday June 14th 2011 12am Rated 1 0 Comments Regression Agile Exploratory Integration
This article discusses the importance of bug regression in context with different test cycles and its outcome within the span of a project. The concept of bug regression is nothing new, but the practice is not very common.
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Customers get quality-centric VIP treatment

Thursday August 19th 2010 5am Rated 1 0 Comments Best Practices Case Study Exploratory Functional Quality Assurance Regression Software Test and QA Testing Process Error Handling Technology Management
Vermont Information Processing (VIP) has been providing business solutions to beverage wholesalers since 1972. The company develops software solutions that handle every aspect of the beverage distributorship, streamlining warehouse efficiency, cutting costs, managing inventories and forecasting sales. Market consolidation forced a period of accelerated development upon the company and it was the QA team that really felt the crunch. Customers became wary about upgrading. Now, with a much more robust approach to software quality an the introduction of new tools from Original Software, VIP has completely turned around its QA process and overcome its customers’ cautious attitudes. The company has now transformed into a software testing centre of excellence with happy customers who are keen to upgrade to new releases.
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