communication

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Testers as Leaders How Testers Can Become Better Leaders: An Interview with Selena Delesie
Podcast

In this interview, Selena Delesie, a visionary speaker, coach, and trainer, explains how to give your team an edge. She covers what principles successful teams embody, how often people overlook the skill of listening, and a couple of her guiding principles that help people change.

Josiah Renaudin's picture Josiah Renaudin
Communicating Testing through Stories Communicating Testing through Stories: An Interview with Isabel Evans

In this interview, independent quality and testing consultant Isabel Evans explains how to tell testing stories. She details the power of telling stories within software and shows how being able to effectively listen is just as important to communication as talking.

Josiah Renaudin's picture Josiah Renaudin
split picture of young and old men Know Where the Water Is: Communicating across Generations

In the tech industry especially, you have people of many ages who need to work together. Young people are joining all the time with new ideas and ways of doing things, and this can create barriers with established employees who have more experience. Both sides need to think about where the other's coming from and focus on demonstrating value.

Matthew Heusser's picture Matthew Heusser
list with maybe checked What Flaky Tests Can Tell You

Flaky tests pass or fail unexpectedly for reasons that appear random. It can be easy to use flaky tests to discredit automated end-to-end testing, but they also can tell you things—about both the application and your team dynamic. Josh Grant gives some technical and human examples of times flaky tests helped his testing efforts.

Joshua Grant's picture Joshua Grant
Watch timer Time-Tested Practices for a Successful Test Effort

Testing in software development is changing incredibly quickly. Test effort varies across projects, teams, and organizations, each having its unique identity in delivering a quality product. However, certain core testing practices never change and continue to drive successful test efforts. Mukesh Sharma details some that he sees standing the test of time.

Mukesh Sharma's picture Mukesh Sharma
Julie Gardiner discusses Applying Emotional Intelligence to software testing STAREAST 2015 Interview with Julie Gardiner on Applying Emotional Intelligence to Testing
Video

Julie Gardiner discusses her experience at STAREAST 2015 and her different presentations at the conference. These include "Applying Emotional Intelligence to Testing," "Getting Your Message Across: Communication Skills for Testers," and "Testing in the Digital Transformation Age."

Jennifer Bonine's picture Jennifer Bonine
Agile Development Conference West logo ADC West 2015 Keynote: Lean UX: Turn User Experience Design Inside Out

When developing products, features, and enhancements, you have to have your customers’ best interests at heart. “We’re not just creating software,” speaker Jeff Patton said. “We’re changing the world.” You need to better understand the people you’re building things for, and the only way to do that is to spend more time with them.

Beth Romanik's picture Beth Romanik
Security Testing How to Talk about Security Testing without Scaring People

When it came to security testing, Sylvia Killinen noted that her company's most frequent difficulty wasn't the testing itself. Instead, it was the communication that provided problems, in part because of the words used to explain what would be performed. If you take care with how you describe your process, you may get more support while executing tests and repairing systems.

Sylvia Killinen's picture Sylvia Killinen
You are hereCommunication Tips Communication Tips in Software Testing

Communication is crucial when testing software. How the tester explains the testing results can be more important than what those results actually are. But having all kinds of communication tools at hand means you have to select and practice the ones that are most effective for your project. Read on to learn some methods of and opportunities for communication.

László Szegedi's picture László Szegedi
Effective Communication The Power of Language: Effective Communication at Any Level

It’s common to alter your linguistic behaviors depending on whom you are interacting with—a manager versus a coworker, for example. Duncan Nisbet highlights different forms of speech and gives suggestions on which can help you make progress in various work situations.

Duncan Nisbet's picture Duncan Nisbet

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