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Changing the Way We Test By Managing Change

Wednesday September 16th 2009 7am Rated 2 20 Comments Management Performance Software Requirements Web
The Business Case for Dynamic SQA and Test Management Featuring Forrester Analyst Margo Visitacion and MKS’s Ryan Lloyd
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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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Who builds the Test Scenarios?

Tuesday June 7th 2011 8am Rated 18 7 Comments Agile Test and QA Requirements
My favorite book is Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. Without ruining the book for those that have not read it there is a great quote in the book. The phrase “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes” is Latin for “Who guards the guards” I believe this is from the Roman poet Juvenal. The interesting point here is on an Agile team when the developers build and run unit tests, or even integration tests, who checks these?
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Baselining Your Testing Team

Friday July 30th 2010 7am Rated 9 6 Comments Leadership Testing Requirements
Manager's guide on why baselining is important, how it is useful, where to set the line, and how to approach baselining your testers
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Post-Modern Software Development

Wednesday October 25th 2006 3pm Rated 0 6 Comments Development Software Testing Requirements podcast
About a year ago I had an interesting discussion with Jonathan Kohl and Mike Kelly about modernism vs.

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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Ditch the Requirements - Focus on the Customer Instead

Thursday February 10th 2011 10am Rated 6 4 Comments Best Practices End to End Development Project Management Quality Assurance Requirements Agile Software Testing Software Test Professionals Conference
Quality can be defined as meeting the customers' needs. Juran posted this definition in 1988, defining quality as "fitness for use". Testers like this definition as it gives them a "north star" to guide their actions and it reinforces a role that most testers relish, that of customer advocate. However Crosby's older definition of quality as "conformance to requirements" still holds strong sway, and many test processes are guided by test cases correlated directly to requirements.

The Fuzzy Line Between Requirements and Design

Tuesday August 23rd 2011 8am Rated 4 3 Comments Requirements
Some people say that requirements re about what you build, and design is about how you build it . There are two problems with this simplistic demarcation.
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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.

Actual E-Mail - II

Tuesday April 24th 2007 1am Rated 0 3 Comments Agile Management Metrics Requirements
I've been carefully re-reading that email, and it is not as bad as I initially thought.

“Just Make Sure it Doesn’t Suck” - Good Application Testing Despite Vague Requirements

Friday October 5th 2012 4pm Rated 8 2 Comments Test and QA Requirements
Where do I start? What am I doing? Why am I even here? Have you ever asked yourself these questions at the beginning of a performance testing project? Have you been one of the many test engineers who have been delivered an application and told to “just test it?”

What's the Real Risk to Our Test Effort?

Thursday November 4th 2010 10am Rated 4 2 Comments Testing Requirements Services
When planning a test effort, the topic of risk and contingencies typically comes up. Sometimes we answer the call of identified risks by listing boilerplate issues we’ve encountered, or have read about, rather than truly considering what risks are likely to impact the project and more specifically, which risks are likely to negatively impact our test effort.
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Estimates - I

Tuesday July 17th 2007 11am Rated 2 2 Comments Requirements
If I had to think of one subject that was not taught in school, and only covered in industry certifications in the most naïve way – it would be estimation.

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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Complete, Correct, Consistent, Unambiguous Requirements?

Tuesday April 29th 2008 4pm Rated 0 2 Comments Testing Requirements
This morning, Shrini Kulkarni sent me an email asking what I thought of requirements based testing approaches.

Performance Requirements: An Attempt at a Systematic View

Wednesday June 15th 2011 12am Rated 6 1 Comment Performance Requirements Process Software User
“Response times (in the case of interactive work) or processing times (in the case of batch jobs or scheduled activities) define how fast requests should be processed.”
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No Requirements? No Problem.

Sunday September 12th 2010 5pm Rated 6 1 Comment Requirements Testing Trends
Solutions to testing without requirements.
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Configuration Testing Tip

Tuesday August 24th 2010 10am Rated 5 1 Comment Testing Automation Development Teams Management Services Metrics Black Box Open Source Process Quality Assurance Software Strategy Software Test Professionals Conference Requirements Web
In my recent paper published in the July/August issue of the ST&QA magazine, I gave tips on improving test coverage
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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.
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