Software Test Professionals Community Articles
Articles written by the STP community of professionals.
How many testers does it take to install a doorbell? Isolating a defect in real-life
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...
Scenario Testing: Four Tips on How to Manage Effectively
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...
What is the Right Ratio of Software Developers to Testers?
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 on the Internet,...
STP Radio: Chat with Mark Tomlinson
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...
Five Ways Testers Can Leverage the Internet
The fact that you are reading this is already setting you apart from the testers who are unaware – or don’t care – about the great resources the Internet can offer a tester.
Ask The Tester: Melissa Tondi, VP – Mobile Practice, ProtoTest
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 Tester". When talking to...
Fruits, Baby Steps, and Coffee
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...
Test Process Improvement
Introduction: We have been doing software testing for quite a long time now. There are many organizations who have invested a considerable amount of time in their testing capabilities. How mature are those capabilities? Each organization has different set of processes...
A Roadmap to Streamlining SAP Automated Regression Testing – Part 2
Continued from Part 1 5. Adopt a Tiered Approach to SAP Automation Architecture An automation framework can be broken down into 3 distinct tiers. Provided below is a description of each tier that you should include in your SAP automation framework. Figure-1 provides...
Ask The Tester – Jari Laakso – YOPESO
We live in a world consisting of almost 200 countries filled with thousands of languages. But is the language of testing universal? Have you ever wondered if testing practices in other countries are similar to yours? Well, I hope that this article gives you a...