From Feared Enforcer to Trusted Partner
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.
Improving the Test Process
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.
Exploring Exploratory Testing
Exploratory testing can be termed: the freedom of the tester’s passion to appreciate the software. Most of the script-based testing is observed to work under some commonly followed work procedures. But under some of the varying demands of the customer...
Ever Been Fooled by Performance Testing Results?
This article is based on experiences and research, giving you an insight into “the why” of our performance testing data-analyzing process and the possible outcomes. You Have Performance Testing Results! What now? Performance Testing, one of the testing...
Leading By Process A Roadmap to Test Management Maturity
Are leaders born or made? Most people believe leaders have natural characteristics that cannot be learned. Some believe that leadership is a trait you are born with. I have learned over the years that good leaders are made not born. Being a good leader is much more...
How to Pick Testing 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...
One Step at a Time… A Testing Center Story…
“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...
Purposeful Clumsiness
I test embedded systems for a living, and I’m really good at it. I’ve been in the business for almost 30 years, and I’ve pretty much seen it all. I know the types of mistakes software developers make, whether due to inability, laziness or just human...
Test Strategies from Around the World
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.
Cast Your Eyes Afield: Hiring Testers From Outside The IT Industry
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...
Ask the Tester: Mike Lyles
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...