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Speaking to Your Business Using Measurements Speaking to Your Business Using Measurements

Justin Rohrman writes that measurement is one of the biggest problems he's experienced in test management. How do we measure quality, how do we know those measurements are good, and how do we use them to tell a story to executives? In this article, Justin explains how to speak to your business using measurements.

Justin Rohrman's picture Justin Rohrman
Helpful Tips When Implementing Test Automation Helpful Tips When Implementing Test Automation

Greg Paskal presents a list of helpful tips for when you are performing test automation. A smart plan for your automation endeavors will make a significant difference in its usefulness, adoption, and maintainability over the long haul.

Greg Paskal's picture Greg Paskal
Using Containers for Continuous Deployment Using Containers for Continuous Deployment

Pini Reznik explains how containers can help shorten the software development feedback loop by drastically reducing the overhead involved in deploying new software environments. This leads to faster build and test executions and simplifies the standardization of the development and production environments, allowing for an easier transition to continuous deployment.

Pini Reznik's picture Pini Reznik
Risk-Based Testing: Test Only What Matters

Rajnish Mehta writes that test teams need to have a scientific way to support the business need of shipping a product out the door. Risk-based testing is a practical approach for test teams to utilize as it allows them to think from a business perspective. 

Rajnish Mehta's picture Rajnish Mehta
Test Managers Survival Guide to Going Agile The Test Manager's Survival Guide to Going Agile

Joel Bancroft-Connors presents a survival guide for testers going to agile. Joel explains what happened when he had to make the switch from waterfall to agile. Welcome to the world of being an agile manager, in which your team is a top performer, doing more in the same amount of time as before.

Joel Bancroft-Connors's picture Joel Bancroft-Connors
How Skeleton Strings Can Help Your Testing How Skeleton Strings Can Help Your Testing

Brian Noggle writes about how he uses "skeleton strings" to help him when he probes an application under test. Just as skeleton keys unlock doors, these generic skeleton strings open up access to a wide variety of defects.

Brian Noggle's picture Brian Noggle
Testing at the Super Bowl Testing at the Super Bowl

The single largest retail event in the United States in 2014 may just be the Super Bowl. Selling those products—everything from hats to jerseys and foam fingers, too—means shipping logistics, websites, and, yes, a lot of software. In this article, Lisa Crispin and Lanette Creamer discuss how that software is tested; you might be shocked at what they found.

Lisa Crispin's picture Lisa Crispin Lanette Creamer
Have You Used Word’s "Smell-Check" Features? Have You Used Word’s "Smell-Check" Features?

Terry Wiegmann writes about how Microsoft Word's features, like its spelling and grammar checkers, can help one identify agile smells—those signs that something might be wrong. While we may want to minimize documentation and the use of Word, we can mentally use some of Word’s features to sniff out some whiffs of smells.

Terry Wiegmann's picture Terry Wiegmann
Measuring End-User Performance Consider Rendering Times While Measuring End-User Performance

Mukesh Sharma writes that if you want to build an effective performance test strategy involving smart devices, you need to consider rendering times. It’s no longer OK to simply measure the response times on desktop web applications like we did in the past. For mobile, the rendering time can make all the difference between a good and a bad user experience.  

Mukesh Sharma's picture Mukesh Sharma
Quantifying Your Value with Test Metrics Are You Quantifying Your Value with Test Metrics?

On a fairly regular basis, test and QA management have to explain their value and role to their clients. Sanjay Zalavadia writes that in these situations you must choose metrics that provide insight into what you are doing instead of obscuring it. This will help tell your story in a compelling way.

Sanjay Zalavadia's picture Sanjay Zalavadia

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