Software Test Professionals Community Articles
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True Performance Case Files
It starts with a bug- an invisible bug that turns one user’s experience into a long and painful waiting game that usually ends badly. If only they had called tin the Performance Police. The deadline’s Friday. This Friday. That’s when this baby goes live; when the...
A Brand New Experience
Welcome to the new SoftwareTestPro.com! Since 2009 STP has been serving the software testing and QA community with articles, news and training written and provided by the community at large. As times have changed, so have the demands on our site and the needs of the...
Excuse me, what is Context Driven Testing?
Excuse me, what is Context Driven Testing?
The Bridge Between Technical Quality Assurance and a Clear Value Proposition
Quality assurance testing is not only essential to assess the quality of a company’s products and services, but it is also necessary to maintain quality relationships between a developer and consumer. This consumer-developer relationship means achieving a...
The Never Ending Benefits of Training
One of the most important aspects of a manager's job is to see to it that his employees are properly prepared to perform the duties required and expected of them. Once the employee is on board, whether he is a new hire or a veteran, the manager needs to continually...
The Secret Sauce for Making Enterprise Agile Software Testing Projects Succeed
The Agile methodology, with its breaking down functionality to user stories, has proven effective for independent applications, which are developed and maintained by a small team of experts. However, adoption of Agile for large scale Enterprise software development...
Sitting With a Wizard
Watching how computers are used in movies and TV shows can be amusing Some scenes have become (in)famous – the quote at the start of this post is from Jurassic Park.
Google Glass – Age of Wearables: A Quick Review
I'm writing this after 2 months of using Google Glass. As a mobile usability and UX guy, I’ve been talking a lot about wearables lately and how they will be transforming the mobile industry as they collect contextual data from the body and around the body (the...
Top 10 Leadership Qualities to Distinguish a Test Manager
Halo Effect often comes up in Technology organizations and could adversely affect the performance of the team, the business and the IT product itself. The “Halo-Effect” is defined as “Generalization from the perception of one outstanding personality...
Application Intelligence Technology and Its Importance in Driving Product Quality and User Satisfaction
Mobile and web applications are becoming incredibly complex. Their functionality is increasingly tied to interoperability with myriad third-party services and components, not to mention networks and frameworks such as Java. The immediacy of the Internet is driving...