What is the Right Ratio of Software Developers to Testers?
XBOSoft has been in the software testing business since 2006. As one of the first software testing companies solely dedicated to software testing (we don’t do anything else), we are often asked, “How much effort should be spent on testing?” Searching...
Ask The Tester: Melissa Tondi, VP – Mobile Practice, ProtoTest
Thanks to all of the followers of “Ask The Tester”. In this article, we will be interviewing Melissa Tondi, Vice President of Mobile practice for ProtoTest. You may be asking why we would be interviewing a VP if the article is called “Ask the...
A Roadmap to Streamlining SAP Automated Regression Testing – Part 2
Continued from Part 1 5. Adopt a Tiered Approach to SAP Automation Architecture An automation framework can be broken down into 3 distinct tiers. Provided below is a description of each tier that you should include in your SAP automation framework. Figure-1 provides...
A Roadmap to Streamlining SAP Automated Regression Testing – Part 1
Introduction Anyone that has watched the movie A League of Their Own must remember the scene when Dottie quit the team right before the World Series. The conversation between her and Jimmy [Tom Hanks] has been one of the most unforgettable scenes for me....
Ask The Tester: Featuring John Ruberto of INTUIT
Well it’s 2013 and once again a new tax season starts for the US. Everyone is pulling together all their financial documents, summarizing their income, expenses, and tax write-offs. And, for many, they will be using tax software to assist them with their tax...
Give Spreadsheets The Boot: From Spreadsheets to Complete Quality Management
Software testing is more complicated, labor intensive, and time consuming than ever before. Applications support multiple platforms, browsers, devices and/or languages and end users are expecting better usability, performance and integration with the applications they...
Building A Successful Test Center of Excellence
The only successful way to build a solution is to understand the problem. To quote Albert Einstein, “The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Recognizing problems you face,...
From the Test Lead Toolbox: A “Group Test” Technique
Management requires continuous adaptation, interaction with the environment, modifying the approaches for maximum return. That’s why experienced test leaders collect variety of methods in their “testing practices” toolbox, and pull them out when...
Advanced Software Testing: Reviews
This is another webinar in a series on advanced software testing, excerpted from Rex’s popular book, Advanced Software Testing: Volume 2, a book for test managers.
Ask the Tester: Perze Ababa
Have you ever heard of the New York Times? How about iVillage, a division of NBC Universal? You have, eh? We suspected you might. It turns out these large companies have websites that serve readers from around the world with constantly changing content, pulling data...