Jul 31, 2017 | Community Webinar, Management, Process, Requirements, STP Community, Testing, Webinar
A placebo is designed and used primarily for psychological benefit. Things like sugar pills, elevator door close buttons, and office thermostats aim “to please”, rather than have any other, “real” effects. Now, consider a placebo in the context of software and testing. What if “pleasing” is the only intended and expected result? How can it be tested? What does a bug look like? And, do these ideas also apply to non-placebos that have other, “real” effects? In this workshop, we’ll explore placebos, nocebos, the placebo/nocebo response, illusion and locus of control, relativism, wants, needs, and expectations, and will connect it all to testing.
Jul 13, 2017 | Agile, Community Webinar, QA, STP Community, Testing, Training, Webinar
As more and more organizations transition to agile, many still do not understand how testing fits into agile teams. Does it simply mean placing a tester on every team? Or does it mean doing away with the role of testers? Pradeepa Narayanaswamy explains the importance of working in cross-functional teams that integrate development and testing. Pradeepa shares her insights into the keys of agile testing including understanding the agile testing mindset and goals. She discussed the responsibilities of a tester on an agile team and describes the diverse skill sets required on those teams.
Jun 29, 2017 | Automation, Community Webinar, STP Community, Webinar
When done properly, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) can drastically improve the communication and understanding of requirements. An additional benefit is being able to utilize the domain-specific language of the requirements to drive test automation. However, like any other automation initiative, when done poorly, this too can fail.
Jun 19, 2017 | Automation, Community Webinar, STP Community, Testing, Webinar
An introduction to better practices and some of the common tool sets used when creating a comprehensive and scalable automated testing strategy. The purpose of this webinar is to lay the groundwork for a more comprehensive conversation with your team(s) about what overall strategy and architecture is appropriate for your products and customers both now and for the future.
May 31, 2017 | Process, STP Community, Testing, Webinar
In an increasingly hypothesis-driven product development world, experimenting with Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) is considered as a pragmatic approach towards building the eventual “1.0” product. MVPs allow the team to systematically validate its key hypotheses, and create a basis for making critical product decisions based on evidence from the field. In this webinar, we shall examine the theory behind testing your MVP and describe a few of the popular testing methods. We shall also consider real-life examples to illustrate the point.
May 30, 2017 | Automation, Business of Testing, Community Webinar, Leadership, STP Community, Testing, Tools
In order to choose an appropriate tool to assist in testing, organizations need to consider three major facets of their testing ecosystem: strategy, audience, and technology.
Apr 28, 2017 | Business of Testing, Community Webinar, Leadership, Process, QA, STP Community, Testing, Webinar
Recorded: April 26th, 2017 Many of us feel like we never have enough time to fully test in a given sprint, cycle or other timeframe. We plan for the best case scenario, but, undoubtedly, something happens with our best-laid plans that cause us to feel like we “just...
Nov 29, 2016 | Business of Testing, Process, QA, RBCS-Webinar, Requirements, STP Community, Testing, Testing Career, Training, Webinar
In this webinar, Rex will discuss ways that test professionals can help their project teams resolve that quandary. First, it’s important to recognize the trade-offs being made, and then test professionals can promote the five elements of making successful trade-offs: shared vision; disciplined management; quality in, and bugs out, throughout; focused testing; and, sending the right message. Rex will illustrate these five elements with a variety of case studies and examples.
Nov 1, 2016 | STP Community
Welcome to the new SoftwareTestPro.com! Since 2009 STP has been serving the software testing and QA community with articles, news and training written and provided by the community at large. As times have changed, so have the demands on our site and the needs of the...
Dec 13, 2013 | Leadership, STP Community, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
Thanks to all of the followers of “Ask The Tester”. In this article, we will be interviewing Melissa Tondi, Vice President of Mobile practice for ProtoTest. You may be asking why we would be interviewing a VP if the article is called “Ask the...
Oct 25, 2013 | Agile, Mobile, STP Community, Testing, Unit
It is my pleasure once again to present at the Software Test Professional Conference fall 2013. Actually, present is not the best word, facilitate is more accurate. I have the opportunity to facilitate a Lean Coffee session, which is a fairly newly structured, yet...
Jul 8, 2013 | STP Community, Testing, Testing Career
We live in a world consisting of almost 200 countries filled with thousands of languages. But is the language of testing universal? Have you ever wondered if testing practices in other countries are similar to yours? Well, I hope that this article gives you a...
