Software Test Professionals Community Articles
Articles written by the STP community of professionals.
Getting Started with Automation
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.
Testing your Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
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.
You Bet Your Life – Playing the Automation Tool Selection Game
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.
Finding Efficiencies in Software Testing
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...
40+ of the Best, Free Testing Tools in 60 Minutes
Yes, you heard that right… 40 of the best, FREE tools for testing software in just 60 minutes! Get your stopwatch ready! In this fast-paced session, you will be introduced to top testing tools every tester should know of so you can pull them from your toolbox when the time is right! You will learn about thinking and design tools, productivity tools, tools we use in testing, automation tools, technical tools, and management tools. Our focus is on the most useful tools to make your testing so much more powerful – that makes them power tools! Once I run through my list of top tools, we will crowdsource the rest to drive home our 40 in 60 so make sure to bring a few of your favorite free tools with you to share with other testers!
Fast Start Your Test Automation
What is the biggest defeat of a tester? A defect creeping into production - a simple but critical defect. Sometimes complicated defects are difficult to find in the short time allowed for testing, but simpler defects creeping out, and creating havoc, could be an...
Managing Quality within Budget and Schedule Constraints: Successful and Unsuccessful Techniques
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.
Measuring Confidence Along the Dimensions of Test Coverage
When I talk to the senior project and product stakeholders outside of test teams, confidence in the system—especially, confidence that the system will have a sufficient level of quality—is one benefit they want from a test team involved in system and system...
Test Management and Quality Management
You will leave this session ready to provide clear leadership in test management and quality management and to help your organization achieve successful testing and quality.
Agile Testing Opportunities
In this free webinar, Rex Black discusses the key testing opportunities created by the Agile approach, so that you can recognize and take advantage of them.