Software Test Professionals Community Articles
Articles written by the STP community of professionals.
Reduce Costs by Decreasing Overhead
When strictly following process, creating pages of documentation, or trying to stop a release without understanding the business, testers do not provide a service. They instead become an expensive part of a company that returns little value. These testers are...
Enterprise Process Assurance: The Missing Link
The implementation of packaged enterprise software changes the dynamics of the relationship between the business and IT, creating new opportunities, risks and challenges. The business gains the control and flexibility to tune business processes more quickly and...
Tester: Not Just a Role Within Itself
Most organizations wish for a quality product but paradoxically, very few give importance to testing. Instead they prefer fixing bugs as they appear in production. The general idea of other organizations is that quality of the application lies in the hands of the...
Testing and Test Automation in Agile Projects
Agile has become more common, but functional testing often remains a manual process because during Agile iterations/sprints, there is simply not time to automate it. In this article, I will introduce a method for testing and automation called Action Based Testing...
Testers Meeting at the Bar
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...
A Paradigm Shift in Web Application Architecture – Why Performance Testers Should Care
Modern browsers are turning into miniature operating systems. They can multi-task browsing processes, allocate and manage memory, collect garbage and much more. They are capable of running complex web applications on their own with minimal server interaction. There is...
Great Testing, Bad Business
We all endeavor to improve how we work. The twin goals of increasing both the efficiency and effectiveness of our testing are always on the mind of any professional software tester. But does improved testing always lead to business benefit? What is Quality Software?...
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, CLM, Sales...