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Crossing The DevOps Divide of Complex Personalities

IT organizations often face challenges ranging from complex technology to even more complex personalities. DevOps attempts to address the dynamics between IT operations and highly skilled software and systems delivery teams. Read on if you would like to improve your skills in dealing with these challenging dynamics.

Leslie  Sachs's picture Leslie Sachs
Technical Testing Levels—A Call for Standards in Hiring

Brendan Quinn points out why there is a need in the industry for transparent qualifications or a set of qualifications that the industry has trust in. While testing theory is great, hirers want specifics, not aspirational achievements when it comes to technical knowledge and ability.

Brendan Quinn's picture Brendan Quinn
New Skills for Software Testers and Software QA Engineers: 2013 … and Beyond!

Let's take a look into the future—all the way to the year 2013! As a software tester or software quality engineer, are you planning to learn a new skill in the new year. If you are, make sure you approach it in a way that will make that skill stick.

Matthew Heusser's picture Matthew Heusser
Testing Tradeoffs and Project Risk: A Case Study Testing Tradeoffs and Project Risk: A Case Study

Between extreme opinions of what is testing “overkill” and what is “essential,” there sometimes exists a reasonable middle path. In this field report, Payson identifies an example of risk mitigation and the evolution of the analysis that brought him there.

Payson Hall's picture Payson Hall
The Homegrown Tools Syndrome

Test management is a generic process, yet much effort goes into developing tools in house to do this work. Learn the reasons for this phenomenon and suggestions for avoiding it.

Michael Stahl's picture Michael Stahl
Hours, Velocity, Siloed Teams, and Gantts

Johanna Rothman shares some tips for project and program managers turned ScrumMasters who are adopting agile. If your management won’t allow you to take training, start reading.

Johanna Rothman's picture Johanna Rothman
Building with a Cross-Functional Test Team Changing the Ground with a Cross-Functional Test Team

We need to test infrastructure upgrades carefully to avoid disruptions to our applications—whether still under development or running in production. A good regression test suite can do most of what’s needed, but what if you don’t have one? You can take the time to create a new regression suite, but consultant Fiona Charles recommends an alternative: Use a cross-functional team approach to identify and target upgrade risks directly.

Fiona Charles's picture Fiona Charles
A Conversation with Rajini Padmanaban A Conversation with Rajini Padmanaban

Rajini Padmanaban is the director of engagement at QA InfoTech. She will be speaking about crowdsourced software testing at the STAREAST conference in April, so I took this opportunity to learn a bit more about crowdsourced testing and find out why it is better than traditional testing in some projects.

Heather Shanholtzer's picture Heather Shanholtzer
Orders of Magnitude in Test Automation Orders of Magnitude in Test Automation

Mike Kelly explains the following heuristic approach to help ensure your testing is roughly inline based on orders of magnitude across the various types of automation. It’s not a method for measuring effectiveness. Instead it’s simply a “smell” to tell you when you might need to take a little extra time to make sure you’re focusing your automated testing efforts at the right level.

Mike Kelly's picture Mike Kelly
Basics Revisited: Test Strategy

Many test strategy documents consist mainly of boilerplate and are far too long. Worse, they are missing an actual test strategy. Test consultant and contract test manager Fiona Charles describes what a test strategy should be and recommends using a more flexible medium for communicating it to project stakeholders.

Fiona Charles's picture Fiona Charles

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