Apr 4, 2012 | Agile, Automation, Business of Testing, CI CD, Community Webinar, DevOps, Leadership, Load, Management, Metrics, RBCS-Webinar, Security Testing, Test Case, Test Estimation, Test Plans, Testing, Testing Career, Tools, Webinar
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.
Mar 12, 2012 | Leadership, Management, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
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...
Mar 9, 2012 | Leadership, STP Community, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
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...
Jan 6, 2012 | Cartoon, Test Estimation, Testing, Testing Career, Tools
I dare to ask about the consequences of an eventually failing asteroid observation software. I think the good news is that there are a lot of amateurs out there who will use a broad variety of similar tools which calculate and “estimate” the same thing. If one of...
Nov 3, 2011 | Testing, Testing Career
A stereotypical description of an application tester’s role is usually about being given specifications, reporting bugs, verifying and closing bugs. This stereotypical tester will have a part to play in a testing organization, but will always be considered an outsider...
Oct 30, 2011 | Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
In any endeavor I participate in, I have choices. In many of life’s transactions, I can spend money to have something done, or I can spend the time to do that same thing. For some things, it is worth it to invest the time to make up or offset the amount of money to be...
Oct 30, 2011 | Leadership, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
Imagine a CMMI Level 3 government project with big-name enterprise tools for requirements management and testing. Does that sound familiar? Have you worked on that project? It was one of the past stops in my testing career. In that environment, the test team had to...
Oct 20, 2011 | QA, Testing, Testing Career
Most organizations wish for a quality product but paradoxically, very few give importance to testing. Instead they prefer fixing bugs as they appear in production. The general idea of other organizations is that quality of the application lies in the hands of the...
Aug 23, 2011 | Leadership, STP Community, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
You may have heard of Selena Delesie, frequent Software Test Professionals conference speaker and perhaps the most famous test consultant to come out of Research In Motion. RIM created the ‘BlackBerry’, the first massively successful integrated mobile...
Aug 11, 2011 | Testing, Testing Career
It is not a job requirement, but when getting hired as a software tester your creativeness will be assessed either through some interview questions or in a practical task. The funny thing is that employers should be careful what they wish for as an overly creative...
Jul 24, 2011 | Cartoon, Testing, Testing Career
Everyone expects testers to do a great testing job, regardless of whether you get the right information at the right time. There is not much you can do about it. I still remember Bart Simpson‘s phrase „You are damned if you do, and you are damned if you don‘t“. So, if...
Jul 6, 2011 | Process, QA, RBCS-Webinar, Testing, Testing Career, Training, Webinar
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.
