Nov 21, 2016 | Agile, Automation, Business of Testing, Community Webinar, Leadership, Management, Process, QA, RBCS-Webinar, Team Management, Test Estimation, Testing, Webinar
In this free webinar, Rex Black discusses the key testing opportunities created by the Agile approach, so that you can recognize and take advantage of them.
Nov 21, 2016 | Business of Testing, Continuous Delivery, Development, Funtional, Load, Performance, Process, QA, RBCS, Testing
It starts with a bug- an invisible bug that turns one user’s experience into a long and painful waiting game that usually ends badly. If only they had called tin the Performance Police. The deadline’s Friday. This Friday. That’s when this baby goes live; when the...
Jan 8, 2015 | QA, Testing
I’m writing this after 2 months of using Google Glass. As a mobile usability and UX guy, I’ve been talking a lot about wearables lately and how they will be transforming the mobile industry as they collect contextual data from the body and around the body (the...
Nov 13, 2014 | Mobile, QA, Testing
Mobile and web applications are becoming incredibly complex. Their functionality is increasingly tied to interoperability with myriad third-party services and components, not to mention networks and frameworks such as Java. The immediacy of the Internet is driving...
May 30, 2014 | Data Warehouse, Process, QA, Testing
Big Data represents all kinds of opportunities for all kinds of businesses, but collecting it, cleaning it up, and storing it can be a logistical nightmare. According to the latest IDC research the big data technology and services market is showing a compound annual...
Dec 19, 2012 | Leadership, Process, QA
Software testing is more complicated, labor intensive, and time consuming than ever before. Applications support multiple platforms, browsers, devices and/or languages and end users are expecting better usability, performance and integration with the applications they...
Aug 10, 2012 | Agile, Business of Testing, Funtional, Leadership, Metrics, Process, QA, RBCS, RBCS-Webinar, Test Plans, Testing, Testing Career, Webinar
This is another webinar in a series on advanced software testing, excerpted from Rex’s popular book, Advanced Software Testing: Volume 2, a book for test managers.
Jun 22, 2012 | Agile, Business of Testing, Community Webinar, Development, Leadership, Management, Process, QA, RBCS-Webinar, Testing, Testing Career, Tools, Webinar
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.
May 12, 2012 | Business of Testing, DevOps, Leadership, Management, Process, QA, RBCS-Webinar, Testing, Webinar
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.
Apr 21, 2012 | Business of Testing, Context Driven, Leadership, Management, Metrics, Process, QA, RBCS, Regression Testing, Security Testing, Test Estimation, Test Plans, Testing, Testing Career, 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...
Apr 21, 2012 | Leadership, Management, Process, QA, Testing
“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...
Jan 12, 2012 | Leadership, Process, QA, RBCS-Webinar, Team Management, Testing
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.