Advanced Software Testing: Integration Testing
Integration testing is one of the least-understood and oft-forgotten test levels, but proper integration testing is essential to ensuring that later levels of testing such as system testing and acceptance testing go smoothly. Join this webinar, illustrated with examples throughout, to learn a way to ensure that integration testing is effective and efficient in your organization.
Thoughts on Calls to Reduce the Cost of Testing
Some time ago I was confronted with an assertion made by a project manager that testing was costing the project far too much. I asked what she meant by that. The response was along the lines of, “We have all these test cases and test sets, time has been spent building...
Enterprise Process Assurance: The Missing Link
The implementation of packaged enterprise software changes the dynamics of the relationship between the business and IT, creating new opportunities, risks and challenges. The business gains the control and flexibility to tune business processes more quickly and...
How to Successfully Build an Automation Program
To effectively implement an automation program, the same approach and similar effort is needed when building complex software. You will be integrating a system with many parts as well as software (i.e. scripts and glue software). Additionally, to complicate things the...
The Secret Skill – How to Sell Testing
A software tester must have and use many skills to be effective in their work. The one that is most underutilized, or not used at all, is the skill of selling. This is a communication skill that has profound impact on a tester’s ability to do their job and get...
The “World Series” of Test Requirements
As I made changes within the quality control (QC) team, the program manager noticed the progress being made. Not only had I taken the burden off the subject matter experts (SME’s) during user acceptance test (UAT), I had taken some pressure off the program...
Agile Testing – Do We Need Test Plans?
Usually these test plan documents are comprehensive with a lot of information regarding scope, entry-exit criteria for each gate and phase of testing, testing types, environments, timelines, point of contacts etc. So, is there a need to have test plans for Agile based...
Who is Watching Your Test Data?
Compuware recently published a study that shows up to 60% of development and testing time is spent working on data-related tasks. Data-related tasks can present themselves in the form of data creation, modification, or writing, investigating, and resolving...
Advanced Software Testing: Code Coverage
Code coverage allows us to understand how much of the code has and hasn’t been tested, and to identify new and useful test cases to fill the coverage holes. Join this webinar, illustrated with examples throughout, to learn a technique that you can apply to your work right away.
The Psychopolitics of Test Management
Rex will discuss how psychology and politics can collide to make the test manager’s job…interesting. Join in the discussion after the initial presentation with your own questions and stories about testing psychology, testing politics, and plain ol’ psycho-politics!
ISTQB Advanced Technical Test Analyst
In this webcast, Rex will explain why it’s so tough—and why technically-oriented testers who have achieved Foundation certification should step up to the challenge.