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Six Shocking Automation Truths

Tuesday August 3rd 2010 8am Rated 44 13 Comments Automation Best Practices Software Test Professionals Conference Software Web
By: Adam Goucher, Principal of Element 34 and STP 2010 conference speaker. These truths are shocking not only because they are counter to the prevailing best practices in the industry but because they can cause me – the consultant – to lose a billable opportunity. A client who saves money but achieves their objectives is often the happiest client.
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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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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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How to Successfully Build an Automation Program

Tuesday August 30th 2011 12am Rated 3 4 Comments Software Test Professionals Conference Automation
To effectively implement an automation program, the same approach and similar effort is needed when building complex software. You will be integrating a system with many parts as well as software (i.e. scripts and glue software). Additionally, to complicate things the automation software will be interfacing with another application (application under test). Therefore the same lessons learned in building systems and software should be applied to your automation project.

QA & Charge Testing - Billing Is Important

Thursday March 10th 2011 9am Rated 3 4 Comments Quality Assurance Testing Development Software Software Test Professionals Conference
Those three little words really rock my world in my role as a Quality Assurance Specialist in Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). While we frequently have the opportunity to test software used to monitor, treat, and diagnose patients, we cannot lose sight of the fact that those orders and procedures we create during integrated system testing need to generate billing charges downstream...
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The Relationship of Testing Tools to Economics & Freedom

Thursday October 7th 2010 9am Rated 3 4 Comments Automation Testing Membership Software Software Test Professionals Conference Web Tools
Article by Software Test Professionals Conference & Expo 2011 conference speaker, Adam Goucher. Adam is a consultant who in this article, gives tips to understanding the complexities of acquiring testing tools and justifying their costs. How does a tester develop a business case to acquiring a new testing tool that gives testing the freedom it deserves.
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Ditch the Requirements - Focus on the Customer Instead

Thursday February 10th 2011 10am Rated 6 3 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.

Best time to work with STP - /Evar/

Monday May 9th 2011 9am Rated 4 2 Comments Software Testing Trends ST&QA Magazine STP Community News Software Test Professionals Conference podcast
Where Matt talks about all the opportunities to do fun stuff with STQA Magazine, the Software Test Professionals Conference, and more!

Giving Back or Giving Up

Tuesday January 4th 2011 8am Rated 3 2 Comments Software Testing Software Test Professionals Conference Performance Management
Article by Conference Speaker, Jon Bach. He discusses his recent experience in the classroom.

Agile Testing... Why Dig into the Technical Design

Wednesday September 1st 2010 11am Rated 3 2 Comments Agile Development Acceptance Integration Quality Assurance Software Testing Teams Software Test Professionals Conference Web
There are cases where not knowing the inner working of your application is a valid approach to testing. However, I believe that we may make incorrect assumptions when we don’t learn the technical aspects of our software projects and could expose ourselves to unnecessary risks.
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Don't Test It

Thursday January 26th 12pm Rated 2 2 Comments Test and QA Software Test Professionals Conference
As testers, we ask ourselves lots of questions: What is the best test I can execute right now? What is my test approach going to be? Is that a bug? Am I done yet?
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Reducing the Cost of Testing (Panel Discussion)

Thursday October 21st 2010 6am Rated 0 2 Comments Software Test Professionals Conference Testing Conference Presentations Software
A recap of the panel discussion led by moderator Matt Heusser with: Justin Hunter, Lanette Creamer, Selena Delesie, Catherine Powell and Petteri Lyytinen - All authors of the new book due out soon: Reducing the Cost of Testing

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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Managing COTS Test Efforts, In Three Parts

Thursday September 8th 2011 5pm Rated 3 1 Comment Test and QA Strategy Management Software Test Professionals Conference
(Special STPCon Fall 2011 Offer Inside) - It’s Like Conducting an Orchestra! Imagine this:   You are a testing professional newly hired by a mid-to-large size company. Any industry. You are responsible for the testing of all of the company’s internal corporate systems---HRIS, Finance, ERP, CRM, CLM, Sales Management, and Knowledge Management to name a few. You have just been tasked with providing the testing strategy and test management for a large-scale commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) implementation. At first you think, “Hmm. A COTS vendor application that has already been developed, tested, boxed up, and released?!? This job is going to be a piece of cake!”

A Five-Ingredient Quality Metrics ‘Vowel’ Soup

Tuesday September 13th 2011 12am Rated 2 1 Comment Test and QA Software Test Professionals Conference Quality Assurance
Do you have questions on to how to implement a quality metrics program? What are the ingredients that are key to a well-established metrics program? What are some real-world metrics one could implement in their organization to guide improvement or quality transformation initiatives? If so, this article will be of value to you. I will outline a five ingredient metrics ‘vowel’ soup (five-step metrics program) with a case study from a financial services company to show how metrics helped guide a transformation effort.

How Children Learn to Test

Tuesday June 14th 2011 12am Rated 2 1 Comment Testing Exploratory Software Software Test Professionals Conference
In the 1960s, during the height of social revolution, a gentleman named John Holt wrote a pocketsized book, “How Children Learn”. Holt’s argument in the book was simple: that children have an amazing capacity to learn. He suggested that by the age of three, children have learned a staggering amount.
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Software Test Professionals Annual Industry Award

Friday May 14th 2010 12am Rated 2 1 Comment STP Community News Software Test Professionals Conference Software
One of the defining criteria of a professional association is its ability to recognize and acknowledge excellence, professionalism, and the positive impacts that its members have on the industry it serves. In order to recognize these traits in the members of our community, we introduce the Software Test Professionals first annual Luminary Award.

Software Test Professionals Announce First Annual Industry Award

Thursday May 20th 2010 7am Rated 1 1 Comment Software Software Test Professionals Conference
One of the defining criteria of a professional association is its ability to recognize and acknowledge excellence, professionalism, and the positive impacts that its members have on the industry it serves. In order to recognize these traits in the members of our community, we introduce the Software Test Professionals first annual Community Luminary Award.

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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