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Squash Bugs by Breaking Your Testing Biases: An Interview with Gerie Owen and Peter Varhol
Podcast
How many bugs have you missed that were obvious to others? We all approach testing hampered by our own biases. Gerie Owen and Peter Varhol share an understanding of how testers’ mindsets and cognitive biases influence their testing.
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Classic Software Testing Is Broken: An Interview with Regg Struyk
Podcast
With twenty years of commercial software development and testing experience, Regg Struyk has developed for several software testing tools including test integrity, iTest, and Polarion QA. Regg is continually analyzing testing trends and their potential impact on software testing.
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What to Do with Too Much Test Documentation: An Interview with Fiona Charles
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Fiona Charles is a Toronto-based test consultant and manager with thirty years of experience in software development and integration projects. In this interview, Fiona discusses excess test documentation and what to do about it as well as the art of delivering bad news.
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Pivoting Organizations to Agile Testing: An Interview with Howard Deiner
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In this interview, independent software consultant Howard Deiner explains how agile testing is different from traditional testing, how to get an organization to try new things, and how the Apollo space program utilized agile techniques.
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The Human Aspect of Testing: An Interview with SmartBear's Michael Punsky and Scott Barber
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Michael Punsky and Scott Barber discuss the importance of the human element in the world of software testing—no matter how advanced testing tools become. Learn why continuous testing is crucial to software's success and why testing should never be looked at as a single event.
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User Acceptance Testing: An Interview with Susan Bradley
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Susan Bradley and TechWell's Noel Wurst discuss how making the user part of your testing team helps achieve quality at the beginning of your project. Learn how the user's valuable input creates real ownership of the product and helps everyone share the workload.
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Keep Agile Testing Agile: An Interview with Aaron Barrett In this interview, Aaron Barrett gives advice that any QA team working with agile testing can utilize. Aaron covers everything from the importance of finding the definition of done to keeping collaboration from getting combative.
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From One Expert to Another: Dale Emery In this From One Expert to Another column, Payson Hall interviews Dale Emery about a recent talk he gave on the "Test Automation Zombie Apocalypse." Here, Dale gives tips on test automation and what makes "zombie ideas" dangerous.
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Testing the Requirements of Collaboration: An Interview with Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan informed us in this interview that collaboration is king, and we should end the separation of development and testing, while putting everything under a single development umbrella. Jeff also looks beyond the benefits of collaboration and TDD and takes some stabs at the future.
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Agile Testing through Gaming: An Interview with Nate Oster Nate Oster is giving two sessions at the upcoming STARCANADA 2013 that deal with empowering developers and testers through acceptance test-driven development. Oster's experience as an agile player-coach and working with test-first practices are detailed in this terrific interview.
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