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Building a Team Through Feedback[article]

The ability to give honest, effective feedback to someone is important. Equally important is the ability to hear and understand that feedback. Learn how to use good feedback to build a stronger team.

Transition to Agile: Large Technical Debt, Small Project[article]

When you transition to agile and you have a reasonably size codebase, chances are quite good that you’ve been working on the product for a while. You certainly have legacy ways of thinking about the code and the tests. Now learn how to work yourself out of the technical debt you have accumulated.

Johanna Rothman's picture Johanna Rothman
Divide and Conquer: Find Solutions by Splitting Up [article]

With all of the choices available to software developers, it's easy to become overwhelmed not only by a problem but also by its many possible solutions. One approach that can help you and your team stay on track is to divide and conquer.

Lisa Crispin's picture Lisa Crispin
End-to-End Automation: Providing Stakeholders Feedback on Quality[presentation]
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Are you running automated tests during development yet not providing automated feedback to the project stakeholders? Vikas Bhupalam approached this problem by leveraging and integrating monitoring, logging, and defect tracking systems to provide automatic feedback to stakeholders.

Vikas Bhupalam, Intuit Inc.
Globally Distributed Agile Development Globally Distributed Agile Development[article]

Today, application development frequently consists of multiple teams, located across the globe, collaborating on a software project. Alex Perec describes how to make teams more productive and efficient without hindering their natural workflow.

Alex Perec
Mathew Bissett Testing Early and Often: An Interview with Matthew Bissett[interview]

In this interview, Matthew Bissett, the test manager responsible for the integration and testing of his area's flagship system for Her Majesty's Government, shares his thoughts with us on the importance of early testing in order to rapidly speed up software releases.

Noel Wurst's picture Noel Wurst
Coach New People to Success[article]

Johanna Rothman describes a hectic situation involving having to deal with four people and four different projects. The folks involved are in over their heads and Johanna can't even tell if these people are qualified for their job.

Johanna Rothman's picture Johanna Rothman
Testing Application Security: The Hacker Psyche Exposed[presentation]
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Computer hacking isn’t a new thing, but the threat is real and growing even today. It is always the attacker’s advantage and the defender’s dilemma. How do you keep your secrets safe and your data protected? In today’s ever-changing technology landscape, the fundamentals of producing...

Mike Benkovich, Imagine Technologies, Inc.
From One Expert to Another: Joe Strazzere From One Expert to Another: Joe Strazzere[article]

Joe Strazzere is a longtime software tester and test manager, blogger, an active member of the online testing community, a sports fan, and a recent grandparent. Here, Alan Page chats with Joe about his love of testing, his career in test, and his philosophies of test management.

Alan Page's picture Alan Page
What You Ignore Can Hurt Your Project[article]

What you don't know may hurt you, but so can what you ignore. Peter Harris explains how to find and prevent big problems on any kind of project as well as showing how you can fix many of your worst problems before they materialize.

Peter Harris's picture Peter Harris
Testing Requirements in Motion[presentation]
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Regg Struyk of Polarion speaks on how to maximize collaboration with QR technology, integrating QR into your Daily Standup Meeting and how to execute Test Runs using QR Codes

Regg Struyk, Polarion
STARWEST 2012: Finding the Real Value in Load Testing[presentation]
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Understand the processes and tools needed to uncover the real value in load testing. Learn how to reduce the number of load testing cycles yet get more effective results out of the load testing exercise. Eliminate the finger pointing that often accompany the load testing process.

Duane Dorch, Compuware
STARWEST 2012 Keynote: Becoming a Kick-*** Test Manager[presentation]
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Want to be a great test manager for your team? A leader your company values highly? Too many test managers do what their organization asks—rather than what their organization needs—and hope for good things to happen. Great test managers are leaders who don’t accept the status quo.

Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group Inc.
Cloud enabled Mobile App Testing Automation [presentation]
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Challenges of mobile test automation. Approaches for implementing mobile app test automation. Cloud enabled mobile app test automation- A failure proof approach - Characteristics, Best practices and Benefits 

Impetus
STARWEST 2012 Keynote: Leverage Your Test Automation ROI with Creative Solutions[presentation]
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Typical automated tests perform repetitive tasks quickly and accurately to lighten the burden of manual testing. These tests mimic typical interactions with the system, checking for pre-determined outcomes. However, with some creativity and a sound strategy, you can...

Doug Hoffman, Software Quality Methods LLC

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