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Testing Wins Should Come through Mastery, Not Luck Bonnie Bailey writes that as testers, some of our track record will be pure luck—for better or for worse. We should, however, strive to test well enough that users must be crafty to cripple the software we stamp. |
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Building a Roadmap for Automated Tools in an ERP Environment Jose Fajardo explains a roadmap designed to help companies and government agencies navigate the landscape of deploying and effectively maintaining automated test tools within their ERP environments. There is a learning curve for implementing and maintaining a test tool, no matter how simple a marketing or sales team makes it appear to be. |
Jose Fajardo
August 14, 2013 |
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What Are Your Metrics Trying to Tell You? Joanne Perold writes that you cannot just look at the numbers; the context behind the data is often far more valuable. Metrics can tell a compelling story or provide meaningful information to anyone who wants to pay attention, but when the focus is only on the number, it can be a disaster. |
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When to Say No to Exploratory Testing Mukesh Sharma writes that there are some situations in which exploratory testing does not work. Understanding these limitations is important in devising a holistic test strategy for the team. |
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Considering Offshore Software Testing? There’s a Better Solution for Your Business Offshoring isn’t going away. But maybe we can be more intelligent about how we do it. Margaret Dineen has some ideas about how not to offshore and she shares them with us today. |
Margaret Dineen
July 31, 2013 |
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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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Building a Backlog for Legacy System Changes Kent McDonald writes that teams often assume that they cannot split their changes into small stories because the resulting stories would not provide value. What they fail to realize is that they can split these bigger changes into smaller changes and gain value by showing their stakeholders, getting feedback, and incorporating that feedback in their continued development. |
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Your Start Affects Your Finish: A Butterfly Effect in Software Development Outsourcing Serhiy Haziyev and Halyna Semenova explain that your start affects your finish. A small but significant detail missed at the beginning of a project may multiply and eventually lead to missed schedules, failed expectations, and mutual dissatisfaction. You need to remember to invest in a preparation phase when outsourcing a project to a third-party organization. |
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How to Test Your Website on Multiple Browsers: Four Solutions Compared Robbie Bridgewater writes on the difficulty in finding bugs during testing since no single computer can run all of the major browsers—not to mention the added challenge of testing various mobile operating systems. In this article, Robbie compares four possible solutions to this dilemma. |
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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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