A Five-Ingredient Quality Metrics ‘Vowel’ Soup
Do you have questions on to how to implement a quality metrics program? What are the ingredients that are key to a well-established metrics program? What are some real-world metrics one could implement in their organization to guide improvement or quality...
Test Estimation
In this webinar, drawn from three decades of industry experience and materials in his best-selling book Managing the Testing Process, 3rd edition, Rex will discuss fundamental techniques for test estimation. Join in the discussion after the initial presentation, and ask Rex about the challenges you face with test estimation.
Managing COTS Test Efforts, In Three Parts
It’s Like Conducting an Orchestra! Imagine this:You are a testing professional newly hired by a mid-to-large size company. Any industry. You are responsible for the testing of all of the company’s internal corporate systems—HRIS, Finance, ERP, CRM,...
TEACHERS AND ROCK STARS: Closing The Gap Between Software Testing & Development
In every business there is a contention between those perceived as “Producers” (who make things), “Facilitators” (who help make things happen), and “Constrainers” (who help prevent things from happening). Problems occur when these...
How to Successfully Build an Automation Program
To effectively implement an automation program, the same approach and similar effort is needed when building complex software. You will be integrating a system with many parts as well as software (i.e. scripts and glue software). Additionally, to complicate things the...
The Secret Skill – How to Sell Testing
A software tester must have and use many skills to be effective in their work. The one that is most underutilized, or not used at all, is the skill of selling. This is a communication skill that has profound impact on a tester’s ability to do their job and get...
The “World Series” of Test Requirements
As I made changes within the quality control (QC) team, the program manager noticed the progress being made. Not only had I taken the burden off the subject matter experts (SME’s) during user acceptance test (UAT), I had taken some pressure off the program...
The Fuzzy Line Between Requirements and Design
First, this statement sounds as though there’s a sharp boundary between requirements and design. There’s not. In reality, between requirements and design lies a fuzzy gray region, not a crisp line. I prefer to say that requirements should emphasize what...
It Works on My Machine
About the Author Torsten Zelger I am in the testing business since 12 years and started straight with test automation. A subject that still fascinates me although today I focus more on automated testing BELOW the UI and manual testing again. Before testing I was...
Agile Testing – Do We Need Test Plans?
Usually these test plan documents are comprehensive with a lot of information regarding scope, entry-exit criteria for each gate and phase of testing, testing types, environments, timelines, point of contacts etc. So, is there a need to have test plans for Agile based...