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Tag Archives: software testing
Jumping Into Mobile Application Testing – Initial Challenges
With all of the latest developments in mobile platforms and the nature of this ever changing landscape, I wanted to share my observations and opinions on how I believe testers can approach this dynamic. As part one of a three … Continue reading
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Tagged mobile testing, software testing
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Quality for Rapid Delivery
In the interests of the September theme, I will keep this short. In his blog, Paul B posed the following challenge: “a conversation about how the practice of quality could evolve to support the needs of a rapidly changing world. … Continue reading
Posted in All, Planning for Quality
Tagged process improvement, software testing
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None Shall Pass…unless? Managing Risk with Quality Gates
A common element to a test strategy or master test plan is to include a description of how the project will mature the software system towards release, and how the project team can be sure that progress is on track … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, quality gates, software testing
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You Are a Scientist
On May 15, 2012, Christin Wiedemann presented “You Are a Scientist” at the Let’s Test Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. A software tester is nothing less than a scientific researcher, using all his/her intelligence, imagination and creativity to gain empirical information … Continue reading
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Tagged high performance teams, people, science & testing, software testing
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It’s Raid Night! Gamification for Software Test Teams?
I presented “It’s Raid Night! Gamification for Software Test Teams?” to VANQ.org, the Vancouver Software Quality Assurance User Group and I wanted to share that material with you. People, processes and technology are the pillars of any company, but without … Continue reading
Posted in All, Business of Testing, Team Building
Tagged cognitive biases, gamification, high performance teams, people, software testing
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A Mandated Tool
In my current context I’m required to use a certain tool for managing the test effort; you probably know the tool. I won’t mention it by name unless the vendor pays me to, but it’s the first on the list … Continue reading
Why Are You a Tester?
I am always curious as to what drives people – what their motivation is – especially when it comes to other testers. I know why I am a tester. My driving force is my curiosity and the need to learn … Continue reading
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Tagged high performance teams, people, software testing
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Beyond the Agile Testing Quadrants
You can build the right product and you can build it right, and still not deliver value to the customer/user. For any number of reasons, they don’t adopt it easily, completely, or on time. You can blame them. Luddites. You … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, agile, release management, software testing, test management, uat, value add
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Test Management: Leading Your Team To Success (Course Extract)
I have extracted a small deck of slides from my course “Test Management: Leading Your Team To Success”. Hope you enjoy. You can download the slides here: Test Management – Leading Your Test Team to Success (Course Extract)
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Tagged high performance teams, people, software testing, test management
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Follow-up on xBTM
Background At STARWest 2011, I gave a talk about xBTM together with Michael Albrecht. Jon Bach was in the audience, and he gave us some very valuable feedback on our idea and how we presented it. This blog post is … Continue reading
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