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Rethinking Our Job as Software Testers: We Should Try to Test as Little as Possible DevOps transforms testing from finding all bugs to prioritizing critical ones. Risk assessment helps testers focus on high-impact areas. Testing can be pre-release (critical issues), post-release (resolvable issues), or out-of-scope (low-impact). Testing should align with business goals and user stories. Data science helps measure and improve software quality. |
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Code with Care: Security Testing in Confidentiality-Driven Industries For developers in privacy-centric fields, innovation goes hand-in-hand with responsibility. One security breach can shatter trust, expose sensitive data, and result in large mandatory fines. By integrating security testing throughout development, vulnerabilities are caught and addressed early, saving time. |
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Benefits of Using Static Code Analysis Tools for Software Testing Static code analysis tools offer a range of benefits for software testing. By identifying potential issues early on in the development process, these tools can help improve the quality and reliability of software, the codebase’s maintainability, and software security by identifying potential vulnerabilities and security issues. |
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Cost Effective: Pre vs Post Comparison Regression Testing The approach to test via comparison of multiple API responses between production and test code versions is very effective and produces the required results, release over release. Improvements and changes, however, are needed to address changing needs. This is true for most if not all tech solutions; the economics principle ‘Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility’ also applies to software. A tech solution that excited stakeholders when first introduced could become stale very soon. A revamp or a new solution is needed to match evolving expectations. |
Better Software Magazine Articles
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What Testers Need to Know about Continuous Testing Thanks to the trend toward DevOps and continuous delivery, traditional testing isn’t enough. Including test automation in your strategy is a good start, but your testing approach needs to change. |
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Bridging the Bimodal Divide between Waterfall and Agile Most software developers are in either the agile or the waterfall camp. Agile is required to be competitive, but many enterprise processes still rely on waterfall practices for stability. They can coexist. |
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Achieving Continuous Improvement and Innovation in Software There is tremendous pressure on software development teams to deliver software faster, better, and cheaper. Quality engineering with a focus on innovation is the answer |
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2017 Is a Pivotal Year for DevOps Customers expect real-time software updates. As DevOps becomes the engine for delivering business value, continuous innovation is needed. And this has to begin at the start of every project. |
Interviews
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Whole Team Quality: A Conversation with Melissa Benua
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Melissa Benua, director of engineering at mParticle, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about the importance of whole team quality, how to get started using the test pyramid, and how developers can start writing testable code. |
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How Manual Testers Are Evolving into Automation Engineers: An Interview with Jennifer Scandariato In this interview, Jennifer Scandariato, the director of test engineering and leader of the Women in Technology initiative at iCIMS, explains the changing role of the manual tester, how they can adapt to a much faster environment, and why security is more important than ever before. |
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What Agile and DevOps Do for Software Communities: An Interview with Brandon Carlson
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In this interview, Brandon Carlson, a consultant at Lean TECHniques, explains how all the newer aspects of software have come together. He explains how things have changed since agile has grown in prominence and what DevOps does for testing and development. |
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Incorporate Test Automation within the Lifecycle: STARWEST 2015 Interview with Mike Sowers
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In this interview, TechWell speaks with Michael Sowers, CIO and senior consultant at TechWell. At STARWEST 2015, he gave a presentation titled "Plan, Architect, and Implement Test Automation within the Lifecycle." |
Conference Presentations
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ADC-BSC EAST 2013 Keynote: Worse Is Better—For Better or for Worse
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More than two decades ago, Richard P. Gabriel proposed the idea that “Worse Is Better” to explain why some things that are designed to be pure and perfect are eclipsed by solutions that are compromised and imperfect. This is not simply an observation that things should be better but are... |
Kevlin Henney, Independent Consultant
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Organizing a Self-Organizing Team
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Your organization is embracing agile. When it comes to adopting the process, your team seems to be doing all the right things. Yet deep down, something still doesn’t seem quite right. As their leader, it could be that you haven’t figured it out either. Perhaps your team is lacking some... |
John Lynch, Clashmore Software Solutions
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Transforming the Large Organization
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Transforming software development across geographic locations in a large company is difficult. But Nationwide Insurance found a way to successfully implement more than forty agile teams in multiple locations around the United States using their internal Application Development Center. |
Sara McClintock, Nationwide
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Test (and More) Patterns for Continuous Software Delivery
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Top web companies employ continuous delivery of software to build and deploy systems faster and gain a marked competitive advantage. You can do it, too! Andy Singleton shares the patterns for testing in real time that result in more frequent and more reliable releases. He explains why... |
Andy Singleton, Assembla
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