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FAQ: How Can I Know When to Stop Testing?[magazine]

In this installment of FAQ, SQE Trainer Rick Craig answers one of the questions students ask him most often.

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Software Design for Testability[presentation]

Testability is a key ingredient for building robust and sustainable systems. Neglecting testability during software development increases technical debt and has severe consequences on systems that are destined to operate for many years.

Peter Zimmerer, Siemens AG
Automated Acceptance Testing of iOS and Android Applications[presentation]

In the fragmentation game, mobile devices have now claimed first place over the browsers. Android is scoring most of the fragmentation points for the team, but iOS isn't just standing idly by.

Jonas Larsen, LessPainful
Simple Metrics for Starters[presentation]

Measurements and metrics are a hot topic again. Theorists often rail against them as meaningless and potentially harmful. Practitioners fear them because they don’t want to be metric-ed out of a job.

David Gilbert, Raymond James
Design Patterns in Automated Testing: May the Power Be with You[presentation]

To keep up with ever-changing systems, most test automation developers spend countless hours updating, reworking, debugging, and validating test scripts. In an agile environment, keeping up is even more difficult.

Bindu Laxminarayan, Overstock.com
Visualization: Seeing Test Requirements in a New Light[presentation]

Change is everywhere in software-feature enhancements, regulatory requirements, technology updates, re-designs, and re-implementations. How can we ensure that testers really understand requirements, business rules, and know what’s changing?

Vijay Atmavilas, VeriSign Inc
Total Quality Assurance: Stepping Out of the Testing Box[presentation]

In the QA/testing world we tend to focus on improving quality by altering or creating new software development models and process, and implementing tools to better manage them.

Bryan Sebring, Georgia Department of Transportation
Artful Testing: Learning from the Arts[presentation]

At first glance, art and testing may seem like an odd couple. However, Glenford Myers combined both in his book, The Art of Software Testing-though his "art" referred only to skill and mastery.

Zeger Hese, CTG
Testing in the Mobile Environment: A Functional View[presentation]

Everyone is talking about mobile testing these days. Testers are focused on the vast and growing number of devices and how to do testing right in this fast-changing technology.

Karen Johnson, Software Test Management, Inc.
Talking Quality to Business: Metrics for Improvement[presentation]

Are your testing and quality assurance activities adding significant value in the eyes of your stakeholders? Do you have difficulty convincing decision-makers that they need to invest more in improving quality?

Todd Brasel, Pitney Bowes
Automated Software Testing for Embedded Systems[presentation]

Test automation for an embedded system presents a unique set of challenges. For starters, it requires a specialized set of automation tools that may be expensive or hard to come by.

David Palm, Trane
Enhancing Collaboration through Acceptance Tests[presentation]

Even though acceptance testing principles and tools are common today, teams often stumble during implementation. In the worst cases, acceptance tests start to feel like a burden rather than a boon.

Paul Nelson, ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Test Process Improvement with the TMMi® Model[presentation]

The Test Maturity Model integration® (TMMi®) model, developed to complement the CMMI® framework, is rapidly becoming the test process improvement model of choice in Europe, Asia, and the US.

Erik Veenendaal, Improve Quality Services BV
Best Practices for Implementing Crowdsourced Testing[presentation]

Global markets, quick time to market, and a feature-rich design are major drivers in determining many products’ success.

Rajini Padmanaban, QA InfoTech
Performance Testing Earlier in the Software Development Lifecycle[presentation]

Historically, performance testing has been relegated to simply adding a few weeks to the back end of a project to run a series of prescripted tests.

Eric Gee, Raymond James & Associates

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