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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.

Why you might just want to test through the GUI

Thursday May 13th 2010 8am Rated 0 10 Comments Testing Unit
Hi Folks, it's me again.

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.

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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Getting started with web automation: A Java approach to Selenium

Tuesday November 23rd 2010 1pm Rated 17 5 Comments selenium Unit User podcast Tools
The article is part 1 of a 3 part series. The series is about automation of web applications using Selenium. If you are unfamiliar with Selenium, I suggest you to go to the Selenium website or listen to Matt Heusser‘s podcast on Selenium before proceeding.
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A Brief History of Software Testing

Friday July 16th 2010 6pm Rated 17 5 Comments Test and QA Metrics Development Acceptance Integration Software Testing Unit User
When STP announced the call for nominations for the Software Testing Luminary award, it got me thinking about how software testing came to be a role separate and distinct from software programming with unique and identifiable skills and responsibilities. It also got me thinking about the pioneers who blazed the trails that today’s luminaries strive to bring out of the shadows and into the light, sometimes revealing new trails along the way that improve software’s journey through what I like to call “testerland”.
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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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My theory of software testing - I

Wednesday December 5th 2007 1pm Rated 0 5 Comments Exploratory Testing Unit
What's the right mix of exploratory testing, "planned" manual testing, and test automation?

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.

Performance Testing within the Agile Methodologies

Tuesday June 1st 2010 12am Rated 7 3 Comments Agile ST&QA Magazine Performance Life Cycle Development Load Software Testing Unit
Software engineering and the programs generated from such initiatives have indeed changed the way business is conducted in every enterprise large or small spanning the globe. Furthermore, the way software is being constructed and managed today is rapidly changing as the environments, development tools, and methodologies evolve to fit the unique needs of every organization.
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Ask the Tester

Monday March 7th 2011 3pm Rated 6 3 Comments Software Testing Unit
Perhaps the single best known tester from the Indian subcontinent of Asia, Pradeep Soundararajan earned his reputation without the backing of a big company, without the impressive degree from an impressive college, and without writing a bestselling testing book (yet).
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Testers With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Friday February 4th 2011 5am Rated 5 3 Comments Acceptance Best Practices Testing Software Quality Assurance Project Management Web Unit
Many people with an ASD – particularly those with Asperger syndrome – have a variety of sometimes exceptional skills that enable them to thrive in roles. An area of proven success is that of software tester.
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What does it mean to be a 'test expert'?

Friday June 4th 2010 4am Rated 5 3 Comments Editorial Essentials Testing Performance Software Unit
So we've got this new crew 'Ask the test expert.' What does that mean -- and how can you get involved? Matt Heusser lends his two cents.

Ask the Tester

Monday October 11th 2010 12am Rated 2 3 Comments ST&QA Magazine Agile Software Testing Unit Ask the tester offshore
Ten Questions for Markus Gaertner
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Career Advice From the Experts

Saturday January 30th 2010 8am Rated 0 3 Comments Interviews Automation Process Technology Testing Services Integration Software Unit Career Training Web
We asked 8 veteran testers how they got into the field and what guidance they can offer those just starting out. Here’s what they told us.
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Working with a recruiter?

Thursday November 29th 2007 5pm Rated 0 3 Comments Software Unit
I seem to hear the same kinds of questions asked over and over again.

‘Father of Software Quality’ Watts Humphrey dies at 83

Monday November 8th 2010 10am Rated 10 2 Comments Software Management Integration Process Technology Unit
November 2, 2010 - Watts Humphrey, a 2003 recipient of The United States Patent and Trademark Office’s National Medal of Technology, and fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and Software Engineering Institute, died Thursday in his Sarasota, Fla. home. He was 83.
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Doing More with Less

Wednesday June 30th 2010 10am Rated 5 2 Comments Software Test and QA Testing Management Unit
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that one ...

Case study of the Resource Ordering & Status System (ROSS) Project

Monday December 20th 2010 9am Rated 3 2 Comments ST&QA Magazine Project Management Management Development Acceptance Integration Unit User
I started on the Resource Ordering and Status System (ROSS) project in August, 2005 at one of the largest government contractors in the United States. The U.S. government uses ROSS to order and status resources for numerous types of incidents, mainly wildfires.
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