Machine Learning and Its Impact to Software Development
The value of machine learning is rooted in its ability to create models that guide future actions and to discover patterns missed by the naked eye. Machine learning methods are vastly superior in analyzing potential customer churn across data from multiple sources such as transactional, social media, and CRM sources.
Entrepreneurship in Software Testing
Are you on your way to be an independent consultant or starting a Software Testing startup? Do you feel it is more like a leap of faith or is it a very calculated step taken only when you are 100% sure of success? In order to succeed, there are some general heuristics that need to be taken care of, irrespective of which business you start but then there are specifics about the nature of business and subject matter involved that hold true for a particular kind of enterprise.
7 Reasons Why Value Stream Integration Improves Software Quality Assurance
Introduction In 1987, the movie Platoon swept the Academy Awards with 8 distinct awards including Best Picture. Anyone that watched the movie Platoon recalls Charlie Sheen’s role as “Chris Taylor” – a privileged young man who decided to leave his university studies to...
Exploring Exploratory Testing
Exploratory testing can be termed: the freedom of the tester’s passion to appreciate the software. Most of the script-based testing is observed to work under some commonly followed work procedures. But under some of the varying demands of the customer...
Ask The Tester: Huib Schoots
With a formal training in business informatics, Huib Schoots began his professional career as a programmer, about fifteen years ago. He quickly realized that programming was not for him and transitioned into software testing. Since that time Huib has held many roles...
Stop Cheating in Your Performance Tests
There are two dangerous practices that are rampant in performance testing right now – shrinking or removing think times and extrapolation of test results. Collectively we need to work to put an end to these practices and start testing more realistically to...
Six Shocking Automation Truths
I have been working as an automation specialist in one form or another since the first hour of my first job. Since then, I have helped a number of organizations and consultants learn how to automate. Inevitably the automation solution revolves around their specific...
Golden Rules of Testing
Switching from Waterfall to Agile is known to directly impact testers. It’s true; the change can be difficult for some of us. However, fear not, some things never change regardless of the development approach. I’ve put together what I think are the golden...
You’re a New QA Manager! What’s next?
Congratulations! You’ve just joined a company as the new QA Manager and you’re eager to dive right in and be successful. What will be your first steps besides familiarizing yourself with the applications under test? Our recommendation is to thoroughly...