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History of Ideas in Software Testing

Monday March 23rd 2009 2am Rated 5 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.

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 10 5 Comments Agile Software Test and QA Technology Strategy Process Editorial
Five years ago, Cem Kaner held up his cell phone.

On Business Maturity

Tuesday June 30th 2009 12am Rated 0 5 Comments Strategy Six Sigma
I just posted this to a private discussion list, and thought it was worth repeating here:Chris McMahon wrote:>For every company whose expensive Six Sigma project yields>them no benefit at all, there is another company with no>recognized quality process at all that succeeds wildly.

Exploring “Exploratory Testing”

Thursday January 13th 2011 9am Rated 11 3 Comments Test and QA Testing Exploratory Strategy
My current team has been integrating exploratory testing techniques for a while now along with the traditional testing methods of manual testing as well as automation. Most of the testing communities that I have known seem to brush this testing technique off simply as “monkey testing” which doesn’t really provide any significant yield on bugs nor achieve high quality bugs. However, I have been observing how powerful this testing method can be from my own perspective as well as by seeing the type of bugs that some of my team mates find.
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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

Maybe it is like building houses

Thursday December 29th 2011 11am Rated 3 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.

Keys to Successful Software Testing Teams

Thursday December 30th 2010 5pm Rated 8 2 Comments Strategy Testing Management Teams Software
So, everyone makes mistakes. And how lucky are the developers to have a fully dedicated team to catch their mistakes before the product hits the market. Now what about the testers? Who will catch their mistakes?
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You Want to Launch When? Mobile App Testing Tips for Startups

Thursday May 19th 2011 12am Rated 5 2 Comments Mobile Testing Automation Functional Strategy User Web
The purpose of this article is to provide some essential tips and examples of how the world ’s most promising companies test their mobile apps .
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Software Lessons from Purdue Chicken

Wednesday June 16th 2010 5am Rated 4 2 Comments Agile Cloud Software Strategy STP Community News Technology
Software as a service was supposed to free us from the pain of physical installs and upgrades. But what happens to your business when the outsourced website goes down?

The Tyranny of 'Things' - Part I

Monday June 20th 2011 11am Rated 3 2 Comments Software How To Strategy Process
Where Matt Talks about Personal Productivity Systems

Test This -My Strategy

Wednesday October 14th 2009 12pm Rated 0 2 Comments Strategy Testing selenium
Earlier I introduced the test challenge, along with this picture: A simple look at the potential test cases: 7 basic events x 3 types (all, followed, conversations) x 2 networks (all or a specific one) = 42 test cases Yes, 42 different cases.

Crowds Help Keep IT Lean

Thursday October 1st 2009 7am Rated 0 2 Comments Management Strategy Services Software Web
The phenomenon of crowdsourcing is helping IT departments get over the hump—without bleeding jobs.
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Context or what?

Wednesday February 4th 2009 6pm Rated 0 2 Comments Strategy
There's been a lot of conversations recently on twitter about context.

Sources of (test) power - IV

Thursday October 7th 2010 7am Rated 5 1 Comment Editorial Leadership Strategy Teams Software Testing
The power of the ask

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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Steps To Achieving Governance in Development Testing

Thursday November 17th 2011 7am Rated 3 1 Comment Testing Process Strategy
You can't govern what you can't see. As simple as this axiom might sound, it holds true for industries of all types. It holds particular relevance to the IT industry since many critical processes that an entire business depends on runs under the hood in complicated code scripts and millions of lines of code. It is imperative for businesses to be able to pop the hood open and make sure that they have as much visibility into the inner workings of their business less something that could be preventable brings down an entire system. Bugs and code defects can definitely do that. With increasing code complexity, it is no longer a surprise to hear news stories of how entire clouds went offline, bringing down hundreds of dependent businesses along with them.
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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!”

The weather outside is Frightful - III

Monday January 10th 2011 9am Rated 3 1 Comment Testing Software Test and QA Strategy
Part three of matt's series on testing creditcardtuneup.com

My 'take' on Agile -- or the Manifesto, elaborated

Tuesday December 21st 2010 7am Rated 2 1 Comment Testing Software Test and QA Teams Strategy Agile Development
Matt Heusser explains his take on Agile Software Development, and how it might 'plug in' a recent book on Agile coaching.
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