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STARWEST Testing Test Cases Are Dead, Long Live Checklists
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For testers, creating tests is critical for a healthy testing process, so it is painful to see how boring writing test cases can be. In classical approaches, test cases are overcrowded with words—mostly project information that everyone already knows. What test cases don’t have is...
Ömürden Cengiz
STARWEST Testing Move from Scripted Manual Testing to Scenario-Based Testing
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Think of manually executed test scripts—like pulling a wagon without wheels. Eventually the wagon will make it to the final destination, but the journey itself will be long and painful. Many people think test scripts are outdated because of the long, painful process of writing and running...
Andrea Fox
STARWEST Testing Rise of the Machines: Can Artificial Intelligence Terminate Manual Testing?
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The state of the art in automated software testing is far from being a replacement for human-guided testing. There is more to testing than setting up preconditions, applying inputs, verifying outputs, and logging the results. Testing requires significant planning, exploring, learning...
Tariq King
STARWEST Testing Mobile Testing: Where to Start Your Journey
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Your company has decided to move into the 21st century and is developing a shiny new mobile app. But you don’t know where to start. How many devices do you need to test? Can you take existing tests and modify them? How do you account for conditions such as loss of connectivity, a virtual...
Bambi Rands
STARWEST Testing How Do I Get a Cool Job Like Yours? A Career Map for Testers
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When people hear about my past jobs, my career, and the many places I “work” (at foreign conferences and even on ski lifts), I often get the question “How do I get your job?” However, when people hear some of the details of my career, their reaction is “Gee, that’s a lot of work!” Well...
Jon Hagar
STARWEST Testing Use Automation to Assist—Not Replace—Manual Testing
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Automation is a powerful tool to help testing but too often it is used to replicate existing manual tests. This leads organizations to spend large amounts of time and money constantly updating flaky automated tests and test teams to suffer frustration from having to focus on activities...
Jeffrey Martin
STARWEST Testing Service Virtualization: What, Who, When, and How
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Service virtualization provides many benefits for both development and test teams. For testers, service virtualization empowers them to work in parallel with their development counterparts and take control of their own schedules. They no longer have to wait for development to...
Kenneth Merkel
STARWEST Testing Elegant Dev and Test Processes for a More Civilized Age
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Software engineering as a discipline has come a long way. For some teams, months-long cycles of dev-test-build-release have shrunk down to mere days—or even hours. In the fastest, leanest organizations, most testing happens in parallel with development as part of a slick, continuous...
Melissa Benua
STARWEST Testing Social Skills: The Softer Side of Software Testing
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Communication breakdowns are a primary cause of IT project failure. Marcia Buzzella believes increasing the success rate of IT projects across waterfall, Agile, and DevOps methods requires a balance of social (soft) and technical (hard) capabilities to improve team performance.
Marcia Buzzella
STARWEST Testing Use Model-Based Testing to Navigate the Software Forest
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Even seemingly simple software systems can be a dense forest of intersecting logical pathways which may leave you wondering if your testing was robust enough. Traditional test cases are flawed since they only execute the pathways the tester considered at the time the test case was written...
Jon Fetrow

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