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Total Software Quality

Tuesday January 31st 9am 3 0 Comments Test and QA Testing Software Test Professionals Conference Quality Assurance
With the increasing success of cloud deployment and SaaS business models, software has replaced many companies. Today’s largest bookseller is not Borders, its Amazon, a software company. Netflix, a software company, left BlockBuster in the dust.
Anonymous

Don't Test It

Thursday January 26th 12pm 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?
Basic

"In-The-Wild Testing": The Missing Link in the QA Chain

Thursday January 26th 12pm 1 0 Comments Test and QA Software Test Professionals Conference
An Interview with Matt Johnston, CMO, uTest
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Blogs

And now, a novel for us!

Thursday February 2nd 6pm 1 0 Comments Software Testing Editorial
Where Matt tells you all about "John Donnelly's Gold", a great little novel by a member of our community.
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Maybe it is like building houses

Thursday December 29th 2011 11am 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.
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Two Christmas Presents

Tuesday December 27th 2011 7pm 2 4 Comments Software Test and QA Testing
Where Matt wishes a happy (late) Christmas to the readers and offers a small prize. Hey, it beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
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Podcasts

TWiST #81 - Virtualization, Part II

Yesterday at 5:00 AM 0 0 Comments podcast
Matt, Michael, Lanettte Creamer and Dawn Test Code continue their conversation about virtualization, which somehow morphed into a conversation about automation and changing names legally... no seriously, it did!
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TWiST #80 - Virtualization, Part I

Friday January 27th 3pm 2 0 Comments podcast
When browsers abound, and testing needs to cover lots of different configurations, how do you cover it all (if you actually can?). Lanette Creamer, Dawn Test Code, Matt Heusser and Michael Larsen dare to ask "let me count the ways!"
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Twist #79 - Interviewing Testers, Part II

Friday January 20th 6am 3 1 Comment podcast
Where Matt, Paul Carvalho , Eric Jacobson , Wade Wachs and Benjamin Yaroch explain why physicists make amazing testers, once you teach them how to use Windows... no that's not a punch line.
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Webcasts

The Sherpas of Testing Success: Studies of Successful Independent Test Groups

Thursday January 12th 11am 0 0 Comments
How can independent test teams guide an organization to success?
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Five Trends Affecting Testing: Five Years Later

Tuesday January 3rd 3pm 0 0 Comments Automation
The trends: globalization; test automation; commoditization; compliance, regulation, and tort law; and, education and certification.
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Listen to Your Defects

Tuesday November 22nd 2011 12am 0 0 Comments
He’ll illustrate these insights with a variety of case studies and examples. You’ll walk away ready to listen to your defects, and to understand what they’re telling you.
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Cartoons

YU55 Near Miss

Friday January 6th 8am 0 0 Comments Cartoon
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Testers meeting at the bar

Thursday October 6th 2011 8am 4 1 Comment Cartoon
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It Works on My Machine

Tuesday August 23rd 2011 8am 8 5 Comments Cartoon
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Whitepapers

Managing COTS Test Efforts, In Three Parts

Thursday September 8th 2011 5pm 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!”
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A Lifecycle Approach to Systems Quality

Thursday June 23rd 2011 4pm 0 0 Comments Test and QA Requirements
...because you can’t test in quality at the end.
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Drive innovation with a collaborative requirements-driven quality solution

Tuesday November 2nd 2010 9am 0 0 Comments Requirements Software Development
Organizations continue to face an unparalleled rate of change. And while decision makers understand that to be successful their organizations must continually innovate—to seize new business opportunities, achieve key objectives and execute with reduced cost and risk—keeping up with business needs is a constant struggle.
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Press Releases

Software Test Professionals Conference 2011 Commences

Monday March 28th 2011 12am 0 0 Comments Software Test Professionals Conference Agile Performance Management Automation Process Software Strategy Testing podcast
Nashville, TN at the Gaylord Opryland
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Software Test Professionals Conference & Expo 2010

Friday October 29th 2010 1pm 0 0 Comments Software Test Professionals Conference STP Community News Agile Software
Software Test Professionals Conference & Expo 2010, the leading conference for software test management and quality practitioners, concluded last week in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Software Test Professionals Association Announces Award Finalists

Wednesday September 1st 2010 2pm 0 0 Comments STP Community News Software Test Professionals Conference Awards Software Testing
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – August 31, 2010 - Software Test Professionals Association announced today that voting for the recipient of the first annual Software Test Luminary award will close this week.
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Industry PR

Introducing the new ISTQB® Certified Tester “Expert Level”

Wednesday January 11th 7am 0 0 Comments Certification
Software quality assurance and testing is a challenging field of work, and it continues to get more challenging. With IT projects getting bigger and more complex, even experienced test managers need to broaden and deepen their know-how. For this, the ISTQB has just released a new certification scheme: The new ‘Certified Tester Expert Level’.
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COLLABNET SEES ENTERPRISE CLOUD DEVELOPMENT AS THE NEXT WAVE IN AGILE ALM, DEVOPS INITIATIVES IN 2012

Monday December 19th 2011 3pm 0 0 Comments Agile
As Agile and DevOps movements mature so too does cloud development
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How the Grinch Stole Scripting!

Monday December 19th 2011 9am 0 0 Comments
A Tester’s Winter Tale – "How the Grinch Stole Scripting!" Every Tester in Testville liked testing a lot. But the Grinch, who sat north of Development – did not!
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Latest Comments

Comment on Article: Guerrilla Bug Reporting

Wednesday February 1st 12am
Hello Brett, Nice article. We also face such situation. Thanks for sharing your experience, would definitely try use this strategy when we face similar situation. regards, Ajay

Comment on Article: Ask the Tester

Tuesday January 31st 11am
We are using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 for Automation, going good for Web Applications, we have a challenge to do a Load and performance test for Windows Applications. Using the current tool we are not able to generate load and analyze results. Can you please help.

Comment on Article: A DAY in the Life of a Software Tester: Part III

Sunday January 29th 11am
Thanks! I appreciate your feedback.

Comment on Podcast: Twist #79 - Interviewing Testers, Part II

Sunday January 29th 4am
The broadcast discusses about to hire testers that do not have any background in computers, even without any windows knowledge and required degree. Then how do you gaurentee that they will think holistic and bring down the defects from other areas such as configuration, compatability issues?

Comment on Article: Don't Test It

Sunday January 29th 3am
The 8 reasons(or scenarios) listed here why not to test is very useful. But it should not be a practice to find reasons every time.