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We Value Your Feedback - Editor's Note[magazine] Better Software magazine editor Ken Whitaker introduces the May/June 2014 issue, highlighting the feature articles and detailing how readers can provide their feedback. |
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Avoiding the Prioritization Trap[magazine] With incoming priorities being requested by just about everybody, how in the world can you and your team prioritize? Brandon shows you some innovative techniques that you can use to turn chaos into order. One surprising approach is simply handling priorities on a first-in, first-out basis. |
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Build the Right Regression Suite with Behavior-Driven Testing[presentation]
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Manual functional testing is a slow, tedious, and error prone process. As we continue to incrementally build software, the corresponding regression test suite continues to grow. Rarely... |
Anand Bagmar, ThoughtWorks
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The Three Pillars Approach to Your Agile Test Strategy[presentation]
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Far too often, agile transformations focus just on development teams, agile frameworks, or technical practices as adoption strategies unfold. Often the testing activity and the testing... |
Bob Galen, Velocity Partners
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Video: The Art of Testing Transformation: Blending Technology with Cutting-Edge Processes[presentation]
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Technologies, testing processes, and the role of the tester have evolved significantly over the past several years. As testing professionals, it is critical that we evaluate and evolve... |
Jennifer Bonine, tap|QA, Inc.
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Designing for Testability: Differentiator in a Competitive Market[presentation]
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In today’s cost conscious marketplace, solution providers gain advantage over competitors when they deliver measurable benefits to customers and partners. Systems of even... |
David Campbell, MITRE Corporation
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STAREAST 2014: Using DevOps to Improve Software Quality in the Cloud[presentation]
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DevOps is gaining popularity as a way to quickly and successfully deploy new software. With all the emphasis on deployment, software quality can sometimes be overlooked. In order to... |
Glenn Buckholz, Coveros
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STAREAST 2014: Leveraging Open Source Automation: A Selenium WebDriver Example[presentation]
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As online activities create more revenue than ever, organizations are turning to Selenium both to test their web applications and to reduce costs. Since Selenium is open source, there... |
David Dang, Zenergy Technologies
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STAREAST 2014: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes[presentation]
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Throughout the years, Lightning Talks have been a popular part of the STAR conferences. If you’re not familiar with the concept, Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute... |
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
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Leaping over the Boundaries of Boundary Value Analysis[presentation]
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Many books, articles, classes, and conference presentations tout equivalence class partitioning and boundary value analysis as core testing techniques. Yet many discussions of these... |
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
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Designing and Implementing Automation at a Large Financial Institution[presentation]
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Planning, designing, implementing, and tracking results for QA and test automation can be challenging. It is vital to ensure that any tools selected will work well with other... |
Michael Sowers, SQE
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Twelve Tips for Becoming a More Professional Tester[presentation]
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Many testers feel that their organizations do not treat them with the same level of professionalism and respect that their development peers receive. Testers attribute this to the... |
Joel Montvelisky, PractiTest
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Video: The Challenges of BIG Testing: Automation, Virtualization, Outsourcing, and More[presentation]
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Large-scale and complex testing projects can stress the testing and automation practices we have learned through the years, resulting in less than optimal outcomes. However, a number of... |
Hans Buwalda, LogiGear
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Testing in the Wild: Practices for Testing Beyond the Lab[presentation]
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The stakes in the mobile app marketplace are very high, with thousands of apps vying for the limited space on users’ mobile devices. Organizations must ensure that their apps work as... |
Matt Johnston, Applause
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Accelerate Testing in Agile through a Shared Business Domain Language[presentation]
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In agile projects, when the cycle from ideas to production shortens from months to hours, each software development activity—including testing—is impacted. Reaching this level of... |
Laurent Py, Smartesting
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