Software Test Professionals Community Articles
Articles written by the STP community of professionals.
Hip? or Hype? Load and Performance Testing from the Cloud
"The Cloud" according to the marketing types, is the greatest thing since the invention of bread, surely able to solve all of our needs, whether technology-related or not. While the hype for the cloud might be frequently and frustratingly overstated and confusingly...
Testers as Experts in Failure
How testing deserves respect for a legacy of failing forward. You've been there. Stuck in that post-mortem meeting to discuss the consequences of poor testing or no testing practices after being hit hard with a production failure or outage. It is tough being a tester...
Software Test & QA Magazine: December 2012
The focus of the new bi-monthly magazine - Software Test & Quality Assurance - is on testing, how testing interacts with other functions in the software development life cycle and expands the conversation into software development. Here are a few articles from the...
Building A Successful Test Center of Excellence
The only successful way to build a solution is to understand the problem. To quote Albert Einstein, "The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Recognizing problems you face, regardless of...
Ask the Tester: Michael Larsen
Who's Michael Larsen? Who's Michael Larsen? Really? You need to get out more! He's the lead tester at Sidereel. Michael Larsen has been testing software in Silicon Valley since Heavy Metal Bands had big hair. A former musician (one of those big hairs, was, well......
From the Test Lead Toolbox: A “Group Test” Technique
Management requires continuous adaptation, interaction with the environment, modifying the approaches for maximum return. That's why experienced test leaders collect variety of methods in their "testing practices" toolbox, and pull them out when needed. In an ideal...
Back to the Future: Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need… Test Cases
It's 1985. The charity single "We are the World" climbs the charts, "New Coke" hits supermarket shelves, Back to the Future is the highest grossing film, and the following ad runs in the Seattle Times (Figure 1): "As a Software Tester you will design execute and...
Agile Testing Challenges: Four Years Later
In this webinar, Rex will revisit his presentation on Agile testing challenges. How are we, as testing professionals, doing in terms of surmounting these challenges? What remains to be done? How can you recognize and manage these challenges in your Agile projects? In this free webinar, Rex will discuss these points and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.
Quality Risk-Takers: NASA vs. Wall Street
You know something's wrong when a Mars spacecraft lands without any software glitches or crashes, while at the same time here on Earth a company's financial trading system fails disastrously costing nearly half-a-billion dollars. I expected the opposite, didn't you?...
Advanced Software Testing: Reviews
This is another webinar in a series on advanced software testing, excerpted from Rex’s popular book, Advanced Software Testing: Volume 2, a book for test managers.