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Meeting Strict Documentation Requirements in Agile
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Teams in many organizations are still expected to produce and maintain significant amounts of documentation. This is generally the case in Federal, state, and local governments where systems must comply with SOX, HIPPA, NAIC, FDA, or SEC directives. In recent years, Agile has made...
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Craeg Strong, Savant Financial Technologies, Inc.
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The Danger of Testing "Only" Stories Finding defects late is a common issue when teams don't consider levels of precision or detail. You must take into account how stories and features fit into the system. In this FAQ column, Janet Gregory tells you how you should remember the big picture—even while testing the small stuff.
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Softwarts: Security Testing for Muggles
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Security testing is often shrouded in jargon and mystique. Security conjurers perform arcane rites using supposed “black hat” techniques and would have us believe that we cannot do the same. The fact is that security testing “magic” is little more than specialized application of...
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Paco Hope, Citigal
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Quality Principles for Today's "Glueware"—Testing Web Services, Libraries, and Frameworks
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In the past, developers knew every line of code in their applications. They designed it, wrote it, tested it, and controlled it. Today’s applications are far different. Rather than written, they are often assembled―from program language libraries, third-party frameworks, encapsulated...
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Julie Gardiner, Redmind
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Gamification in Assurance: The Future of QA and Testing Workspace
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Quality Assurance and Testing is an interesting and challenging profession. As custodians of the business, we are responsible for assuring both the business and the end customer experience. Even though some testing activities have become mundane and repetitive, testing...
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Kannan Subramaniam, Comcast, and Prasad MK, TCS
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Eliminate the Testing Swiss Cheese Syndrome
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Test plans and test coverage often resemble Swiss cheese—full of holes in high risk areas of code. And teams may be unaware because they lack sufficient visibility into what areas of...
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Rich Newman, Coverity
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Breaking Bad (Practices)—Testing Your Mobile App
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Untested mobile applications are extremely unlikely to survive beyond the walls of your lab. Let’s spend some time together exploring the very entertaining world of mobile app...
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Kelly Emo, HP
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Achieving Test Automation Critical Mass with Action Based Testing
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Despite advances in testing, the reality is that companies often automate less than 30 percent of their functional tests. By practicing Action Based Testing (ABT) you can take your...
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John Kane
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Speak Like a Test Manager
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Ever feel like your manager, development manager, product manager, product owner, or (you fill in the blank) is not listening to you or your team? Are you struggling to make an impact with your messages? Are you “pushing a wet rope uphill” in championing product quality? Are you talking...
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Mike Sowers, Software Quality Engineering
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The Power of an Individual Tester: The HealthCare.gov Experience
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Like millions of other Americans, Ben Simo visited HealthCare.gov in search of health insurance and found a frustratingly buggy website that was failing to fulfill its purpose―to educate people on the new health insurance law and help them purchase health insurance. After failing to create...
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Ben Simo, eBay, Inc.
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