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Talk Context to Me Context-driven testers see the world in a fundamentally different way than testers from other schools of thought. Matt Heusser provides some tips on avoiding risks of communication across those schools. |
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Enterprise Mobile QA: The Truth about 5 Common Myths As organizations embrace mobile QA, they will need to develop their quality standards, teams, and approaches for mobile QA as they do for traditional QA. Poor or nonexistent mobile QA strategies and tools have led to many myths taking strong roots in organizations. Brian Bernknopf explores the truth about five of the most common myths. |
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The Cloud—Coming Around Again Regardless of what you believe, the cloud marketing hype will be around for quite some time. Paul Fratellone recounts his personal history dealing with the cloud and why QA professionals need to think about capitalizing on the cloud’s hype. QA professionals should use their previous cloud experiences to their advantage in today’s industry. |
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Writing Test Rules to Verify Stakeholder Requirements Some organizations employ business analysts who are very good at specifying requirements at the beginning of a software project. The advantage of this step is the reduction in ambiguity for the developer and tester of what should be delivered. |
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Time to Think about an Open Source Automated Testing Ecosystem In our modern world of software development, software testing is increasing in importance as well as complexity. Today’s multitude of desktop and mobile operating systems, browsers, and devices, while on one hand, offer a great set of options for the end-user, also make it challenging for testers to ensure application and device compatibility. |
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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. |
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Test Documenting Over the Cliff Unless you're in a test role where full, complete documentation is necessary in order to be federally compliant or to keep people from dying or losing a limb, attempting to document every little thing is a fool's errand. Software changes. A lot. With constant change, what we document one day may be obsolete the next. |
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Divide and Conquer: Find Solutions by Splitting Up With all of the choices available to software developers, it's easy to become overwhelmed not only by a problem but also by its many possible solutions. One approach that can help you and your team stay on track is to divide and conquer. |
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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. |
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Where Worlds Collide: Integrate New Perspectives into Your Testing Rick Scott often writes about the lines that connect the dots between schools of philosophy and software testing. In this article, he shares some tips for seeking out your own new perspectives and introducing them into your testing work. |
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