Mar 9, 2012 | Leadership, STP Community, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
Many of the folks we feature on ask the tester are consultants with big names and public faces, and that’s good. Still, we try to achieve a balance; we also want to hear from practitioners. If we’re going to put on a practitioner, how do we know they are...
Jan 12, 2012 | Leadership, Process, QA, Team Management, Testing
How can independent test teams guide an organization to success? What organizational options exist for such teams? How does independent testing fit into the software lifecycle? How can we measure success for such team? In this presentation, drawn from three decades...
Oct 30, 2011 | Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
In any endeavor I participate in, I have choices. In many of life’s transactions, I can spend money to have something done, or I can spend the time to do that same thing. For some things, it is worth it to invest the time to make up or offset the amount of money to be...
Oct 30, 2011 | Leadership, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
Imagine a CMMI Level 3 government project with big-name enterprise tools for requirements management and testing. Does that sound familiar? Have you worked on that project? It was one of the past stops in my testing career. In that environment, the test team had to...
Oct 30, 2011 | Leadership, Team Management, Testing
The obvious and completely correct answer is that it depends on what you’re building; who your users are; and a whole host of other factors. The less obvious factor is who cares? If you have the wrong number of testers, what does that cost? There are certainly costs...
Sep 8, 2011 | Community Webinar, Leadership, Team Management, Test Estimation, Testing, Webinar
How many testers do we need? How many test cases do we need? How many bugs will testing find? How long will testing take? Those are good questions, but those questions are often hard to answer. In this webinar, drawn from three decades of industry experience and...
Aug 23, 2011 | Leadership, STP Community, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
You may have heard of Selena Delesie, frequent Software Test Professionals conference speaker and perhaps the most famous test consultant to come out of Research In Motion. RIM created the ‘BlackBerry’, the first massively successful integrated mobile...
Jul 20, 2011 | Leadership, Process, QA, Team Management, Testing
Test management. While much of testing and test management involves rational decision-making, measuring quality and providing testing services to the team, there are realms of the test manager’s job where psychology meets politics to form psychopolitics. In this...
May 19, 2011 | STP Community, Team Management, Testing Career
Known locally as a sort of ‘dynamic duo’, Pete and Kristin are the Test Lead and Director of Software QA for ISD Corporation, a Zeeland, Michigan based firm that develops and delivers electronic payment software solutions for retailers. Kristin has been...
May 19, 2011 | Leadership, Process, Team Management, Test Estimation, Test Plans, Testing Career
What made me think of this? When I teach project management and I discuss scope creep; I usually tell a story about one of my first projects. I really wanted to get along with my customer. I was not well versed in all of the project management bodies of knowledge. I...
May 5, 2011 | Leadership, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
When I was a kid I used to play ball out in the street in front of my house. The neighborhood kids, my brothers, and I would have a game going and then a car would turn on to the street and we would yell “CAR!” This would stop the game and everyone would...
Mar 7, 2011 | Leadership, STP Community, Team Management, Testing
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)....
