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Teaching Acceptance Test-Driven Development Acceptance test-driven development is a whole-delivery cycle method that allows the entire team to define system behavior in specific terms before coding begins. These conversations align the expectations of the testers, developers, and product owners, forcing any silly arguments to happen before someone has to create the code twice. Here are some great beginner exercises for teaching ATDD. |
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Shifting Testing Left Bakes In Quality from the Start “Shift left” is one of the latest buzz terms in software testing. Movements like agile and DevOps recommend that testers shift left, but what does that mean, exactly? Here's how one tester became a believer in the shift-left movement; how he got his team's developers, analysts, designers, and managers on board; and how his entire organization has benefited from the shift. |
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Is It Worth It for Software Testers to Get Certification? The software testing community is split over whether it's worth the time and cost to go through a testing course in order to obtain a certification. Does having a certification prepare you when you're first getting started in your career? Does it help you stand out from other job applicants? Albert Gareev shares his opinions on what makes a testing certification worthwhile. |
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Learning without Asking: Breaking into a New Testing Field If you're first getting into software testing, or if you've started a new job testing in a different industry, you probably have a lot of questions—about terms and jargon, expectations, requirements, and more. Hopefully your new team will answer some of them, but if you feel like you keep bugging them, there are ways you can learn and discover on your own. |
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Be Indispensable: Cross-Train like a Testing Athlete Stretching your skills and preparing for organizational and work-related change is vital for any QA tester. Your best approach is to work on complementing your skills and competencies. |
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The Unspoken Truth about IoT Test Automation The internet of things (IoT) continues to proliferate as connected smart devices become critical for individuals and businesses. Even with test automation, performing comprehensive testing can be quite a challenge. |
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Building a Test Automation Strategy QA departments always feel the pressure to start testing quickly, even if the ever-changing software being tested isn’t ready. A bought-in test automation strategy can keep a project on track. |
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Test-Driven Service Virtualization Because enterprise applications are highly interconnected, development in stages puts a strain on the implementation and execution of automated testing. Service virtualization can be introduced to validate work in progress while reducing the dependencies on components and third-party technologies still under development. |
Interviews
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Finding Micro-Efficiencies in Agile Practices: An Interview with Melissa Tondi Melissa Tondi discusses re-tuning your standard agile practices to better engage the project team enabling them to be writing code that will pass testing and free testers to assume the role of user advocate. |
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Automated Security Scanning in Your Delivery Pipeline: An Interview with Matt Grasberger
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Matt Grasberger, a software consultant at Coveros Inc., discusses shifting left security scans that you can do quickly and easily and the open source tools that are available to utilize early in the application development process to ensure you are not introducing new vulnerabilities. |
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Security Testing for Test Professionals: An Interview with Jeff Payne
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Jeff Payne, CEO and founder of Coveros Inc., discusses the need for testers to incorporate security testing into development from the beginning. He also details some of the open source and commercial tools available for finding and resolving security problems. |
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How Manual Testers Can Thrive in an Automation World: An Interview with Jeanne Schmidt
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Jeanne Schmidt, principal consultant at Rural Sourcing Inc., talks about how manual testers can embrace continual learning with tools such as Twitter and Gherkin to become part of the automation process. |
Conference Presentations
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A Lean Tour of Lean Software Development
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Lean software development has been described as “better, faster, cheaper” and focused on “eliminating waste,” but those are misnomers. Going after speed improvement and waste elimination can actually reduce the benefits you might otherwise get from lean. Ken Pugh describes what lean... |
Ken Pugh
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Transform Test Organizations for the New World of DevOps
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With the recent emergence of DevOps across the industry, testing organizations are being challenged to transform themselves significantly within a short period of time to stay meaningful within their organizations. It’s not easy to plan and approach these changes considering the way... |
Sumit Kumar
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Why Won’t They Pair?
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Do your developers and testers pair—and do it in the best ways? If you can answer yes, then you are among the fortunate ones who have a trusting environment where people have confidence in their work. Unfortunately, a large number of development shops don’t practice pairing in any form. |
Linda Cook
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It's All in Your Head: Use Neuroscience to Improve Performance
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We humans process millions of bits of information each day. In order to handle that data load, our brains have developed shortcuts to take advantage of patterns, shared knowledge, and experience. Unfortunately, sometimes those shortcuts lead us astray, causing us to draw inaccurate... |
Faye Thompson
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