From Feared Enforcer to Trusted Partner
In this webinar, illustrated with case studies of successful and unsuccessful test teams, Rex will explain how you can transform your test team into a trusted partner.
Improving the Test Process
In this webinar, Rex will explain the evaluation guidelines and how to apply them to your organization. You’ll come away ready to get started on bottom-line focused, data-driven improvements to your testing processes.
How to Pick Testing Tools
Ultimately, those of us who consider ourselves software engineers, like all engineers, are in the business of building useful things. Of course, engineers need tools. Civil engineers have dump trucks, trenching machines, and graders. Mechanical engineers have CAD/CAM...
One Step at a Time… A Testing Center Story…
“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bus.” “The grass is always greener on the other side”.Whether you agree with the origins of the saying, the meaning is clear. Something worth having is going to take you some time to get. Your first...
Test Strategies from Around the World
This webinar will give attendees an overview of the significant test strategies in use by testers in various industries and business domains around the world. We’ll examine: analytical strategies (where testers analyze requirements or risks to identify the test conditions to cover); model-based strategies (where testers develop a model of the environment in which the system exists, the inputs and conditions to which the system is subjected, and how the system should behave); methodical strategies (where testers use a predetermined set of test conditions, such as a quality standard or set of heuristics); process-compliant strategies (where testers follow a set of processes defined by others, such as Agile testing); reactive strategies (where testers react to the actual system under test rather than trying to pre-plan the testing); and, other strategies in common use.
Cast Your Eyes Afield: Hiring Testers From Outside The IT Industry
When it comes time for you to write a job ad to fill a lower rung position in your quality assurance department, you might be tempted to merely copy the same old, same old boilerplate from other job postings and put this out there: Job Requirements: Bachelor’s...
Ask the Tester: Mike Lyles
Many of the folks we feature on ask the tester are consultants with big names and public faces, and that’s good. Still, we try to achieve a balance; we also want to hear from practitioners. If we’re going to put on a practitioner, how do we know they are...
The Sherpas of Testing Success: Studies of Successful Independent Test Groups
How can we measure success for such team? In this presentation, drawn from three decades of industry experience, Rex will help you find answers to these questions, and to establish—or improve—your independent testing team. Join in the discussion after the initial presentation, and ask Rex about the challenges you face with test estimation.
Meeting the Stranger in Town
In western movies, whenever a suspicious stranger blows into the bootstrapping town of good folk, the local sheriff makes a point to interact with the stranger early. “We’re a law-abiding people,” the sheriff says, instructing the stranger on the town rules and his...
Steps To Achieving Governance in Development Testing
You can’t govern what you can’t see. As simple as this axiom might sound, it holds true for industries of all types. It holds particular relevance to the IT industry since many critical processes that an entire business depends on runs under the hood in...
How to Modernize Testing for the Instant-On Enterprise
In today’s world of continuous connectivity and instant information, products and services must work with unprecedented speed and reliability. The key to success for businesses is to become Instant-On Enterprises that embed technology into everything they do in order...