Jul 1, 2014 | Podcast, Testing, Testing Career
Michael “TestHead” Larsen joined us for a long, long conversation about how you can become a great software tester and how his own career developed through ups and downs, turns and twists (no pun intended) to arrive at his current level of genuine guru....
Jun 25, 2014 | Agile, Testing
This download re-frames the notion of Technical Debt into the arena of Agile QA & Testing. managing-technical-test-debt About the Author Bob Galen BOB GALEN is the Director of R&D and Scrum Coach at iContact in Durham, N.C. In this role, he operates as an...
Jun 25, 2014 | Testing, Testing Career
The world is moving fast towards realizing the true importance of software testing. Gone are the days where management was biased against testers or testing teams. Today, we, the testers, are being looked upon as an integral part of product development. Well, the...
Jun 12, 2014 | Leadership, Process, Testing
What Is Estimation? Test estimation is a forecast of the projected cost and duration of testing which is agreed upon between the testers and enterprise which requires testing. It is a means for discerning information which will need to be fed back in to the business....
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...
May 18, 2014 | Context Driven, Exploratory, Podcast, STP Radio, Testing
Directly from his home on the West Coast of the USA James Bach, the original self-proclaimed Buchaneer-Scholar himself joins us for “test” of his thinking about the recent STPCON keynote on the schools of software testing and how he might juxtapose his own...
May 16, 2014 | Exploratory, Testing
As testers, we tend to be analytical thinkers by nature. This is a valuable quality in our work, but how often do we take note of how we exercise those skills in other areas of our life? The following is a true story of three software testers attempting to install a...
May 2, 2014 | Process, Testing
Testing software has always been complex. The minute you add more than a handful of features to any system, theoretical complexity sky rockets. All the buttons to click, links to follow, client browser versions, client bandwidth and what have you, will soon add up to...
Mar 21, 2014 | Leadership, Team Management, Testing
XBOSoft has been in the software testing business since 2006. As one of the first software testing companies solely dedicated to software testing (we don’t do anything else), we are often asked, “How much effort should be spent on testing?” Searching...
Mar 13, 2014 | Performance, Podcast, STP Radio, Testing
Mark Tomlinson host of PerfBytes, Performance Tester, Speaker, and all around Testing guru talks about the similarities of music and testing. Testing and music have many common attributes and it is fun to listen to Mark make the comparison! Mark talks about...
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...
