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How to Optimize Customer Experience Using Testing It is time to test the customer experience. If you test customer experience, you are likely to find out how customers behave at every step of their journey and what steps they never get to. Therefore, you will optimize stages that need improvement in the right order.
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Seven Essentials for DevOps Success The success of DevOps depends on the team’s ability to have the right mix of human judgment, culture, process, tools, and automation. Here are seven essentials to help you be cautious and prepare for your DevOps journey.
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An Introduction to Web Optimization Testing When testing websites, most software testers check the functionality and the UI of the page. But webpage optimization is another area that should get consideration. There are a variety of factors, such as relevance and readability, that search engines consider in webpages before assigning a position in search results, and testers can help positively influence this ranking by increasing site speed and removing blockers to usability.
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6 Ways Testers Can Add Value (Other Than Functional Testing) Many testers spend their time doing functional testing and don't come out of this cocoon. But software testing is all about discovering quality-related information to assist stakeholders in making informed decisions, and there are multiple ways to discover information in addition to functional testing. Here are six actions that will help you add more value to your projects.
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The Evolution of Software Monetization End-users are demanding anytime, anywhere access to software apps on their devices. These changes are shifting the way software vendors conduct business. Michael Zunke uses the results of industry surveys to show how software products and services should be licensed.
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Playing Games to Improve Software You may not have heard about gamification, but instructional designers are now using game principles to help with retention of learned material in many forms of training. Ross Smith and Rajini Padmanaban believe that developers' UX and app design can benefit from gamification.
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Incorporating User Experience into Early Agile Cycles Chris Nodder explores the emerging need to focus on a software app's user experience. It doesn’t have to cost a fortune to perform some basic user experience analysis as long as it is done early and tested throughout a project’s lifecycle.
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A Tale of Two Doctors and the Value Stream Johanna Rothman compares the experience a patient has with doctors to software development. Producing value implies that the customer believes the software you create provides an important benefit by taking into consideration the way a user works along with an exceptional user experience.
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The Pendulum Swing of Testing: An Interview with Melissa Tondi Melissa Tondi, QA professional services manager at Rainforest, talks about how fast the role of the tester is changing. She describes it as a pendulum, saying when she first started, everything was very user-focused, and now it is all about the technical teams. Melissa explains why it’s important to have a distribution of both technical and user-focused roles, then gives some strategies to find the right balance.
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The Glamour Is Back in Testing: An Interview with Dona Sarkar
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In this interview, Dona Sarkar, head of the Windows Insider Program at Microsoft, speaks about how the initiative allows them to get user feedback before final release. She highlights the importance of getting out in the field to understand your users’ experiences and the difficulties they encounter. Dona also discusses the evolution of the testing role, saying she anticipates that in the near future, testers will have their moment.
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Testing Challenges in Creating Wearable Technology: An Interview with Janna Loeffler
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In this interview, Janna Loeffler, senior manager of experience quality standards at Carnival Corporation, discusses new technology being implemented on Carnival Cruise Lines to facilitate payments and security. She details the testing challenges of implementing wearable devices.
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Finding Microefficiencies in Agile Practices: An Interview with Melissa Tondi Melissa Tondi discusses retuning your standard agile practices to better engage the project team, enabling them to write code that will pass testing and free testers to assume the role of user advocate.
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