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Tag Archives: test management
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)
Posted in All, Business of Testing, Team Building, Test Planning & Strategy
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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Tagged agile, software testing, test management, visualization tools
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A Remote Tester’s Perspective – The Challenges and Solutions
On October 27, 2011, Keith McIntosh presented “A Remote Tester’s Perspective: The Challenges and Solutions” at the Software Test Professionals Conference in Dallas, Texas. Much has been written on the many challenges associated with remote testing locations whether they are onshore, nearshore or offshore. The … Continue reading
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Tagged high performance teams, outsourcing, people, process improvement, software testing, test management, value add
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UAT as a Lean Startup
User acceptance testing (UAT) – that misunderstood human activity that is squeezed from front to back by late delivery and set-in-stone go-live dates – is an opportunity to use lean tactics. The user acceptance team is a cross-functional team. An … Continue reading
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Working with Business Testers
From Nancy Kelln’s presentation at STPCon, “Leading Business Testers”, business testers: are not testers do not want to be testers require guidance and support require their expectations to be managed may be working part-time on the project and all of … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, people, process improvement, software testing, test management, uat
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Going To The Extreme – xBTM
Now that the project has finished it is time to sum up my experiences of adapting Thread-Based Test Management (TBTM). Since I generally do not believe in rigorously adhering to a protocol, I ended up not using TBTM strictly, but … Continue reading
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Checklists, Refactored
Guided exploratory testing is using checklists to support and guide the exploration. In addition, it also means using those checklists as the backbone for communicating to other stakeholders on the project/initiative. I’ve started to advocate the term ‘testlists’ to replace … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, agile, risk driven, software testing, templates, test management, test tools, value add
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Play Me a Song
My sister was visiting us a few weeks ago so that she might meet her new niece in person. She lives about 1500km away from us, so it’s just far enough away to make these sorts of visits infrequent. I … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, agile, high performance teams, people, process improvement, software testing, templates, test management, test tools, uat
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Survey Report – Project Success & Test Outsourcing
This summer, we put out a quick 10-question survey regarding software development and outsourcing or contracting of testing services. The intention of the survey was to use the responses to paint a picture of the attitude or approach towards outsourcing … Continue reading
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Tagged process improvement, software testing, survey, test management
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Test Automation – Building Your Business Case
I presented “Test Automation – Building Your Business Case” to VANQ.org, the Vancouver Software Quality Assurance User Group. Subsequently I presented it to the Southern Idaho Society for Software Quality Assurance and UBC Continuing Studies (Tech.UBC.ca), and I wanted to … Continue reading
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Tagged process improvement, ROI, software testing, test automation, test management, tool selection
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