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Software Testing Is a Game
Skilled testing—an important part of creating valuable technology—is under attack. We need to rethink the problem, analyze why people resist testing, and create approaches to make it more engaging. Gamification provides one model to help us improve our approach.
Wearing the Architect’s Hat: Testing Real-time Enterprise Applications
Simulating production conditions to test enterprise applications calls for some careful considerations. Learn how you can borrow the architect's hat without trying to fill his shoes.
Where Worlds Collide: Integrate New Perspectives into Your Testing
Rick Scott often writes about the lines that connect the dots between schools of philosophy and software testing. In this article, he shares some tips for seeking out your own new perspectives and introducing them into your testing work.
Testers: Put on Your End-User Hat
The more you know about the end-user, the more effective you will be as a tester. Here are some tips for adding value by thinking like your customer.

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Simplicity and Precision: Test Planning in Agile Projects
Test planning is often thought unnecessary in an agile project. However, if our mindset is on "planning" rather than "plans," we see that test-planning activities happen throughout the project, taking advantage of levels of precision, i.e., what is absolutely necessary at each level.
Increase Quality With Table-Driven Acceptance Tests

Vague or ambiguous requirements can cause loops in development processes. Creating requirements that include acceptance tests cuts down on the looping and increases the flow of working software to the customer.

Test Estimation: Tools and techniques for realistic predictions of your test effort

Sometimes the toughest thing about testing is deciding how long it will take and what resources it will require. Read about techniques, including "Divide and Conquer," to make this part of the job easier.

My Next Mission (And How You Might Benefit from It)

Technical Editor Brian Marick proposes organizing a public effort to test a real software product.

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Interviews

Government Regulation and Medical Apps: An Interview with Jonathan Kohl
Online editor Jonathan Vanian interviews Jonathan Kohl on what it's like to work on software development and testing for mobile medical devices in light of the recent news that the Food and Drug Administration is working on a set of guidelines to regulate the mobile medical device app market.
Crowdsourced Testing: An Interview with Rajini Padmanaban
Rajini Padmanaban is the director of engagement at QA InfoTech. Heather Shanholtzer had the opportunity to interview Rajini and learn a bit more about crowdsourced testing and find out why it is better than traditional testing in some projects.

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