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Metrics That Matter
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Imagine you’re a test manager starting a new assignment. On the first day of work, you’re presented with a list of metrics you are to report. Soon, you realize that most of the metrics are not really connected to what should be measured. Or, consider the situation where you’re told that... |
Pablo Garcia, Redmind
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Pairwise Testing Explained
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Many software systems are required to process huge combinations of input data, all of which deserve to be tested. Since we rarely have time to create and execute test cases for all combinations, the fundamental problem in testing is how to choose a reasonably-sized subset that will find a... |
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
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The Unfortunate Triumph of Process over Purpose
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As a test manager, James Christie experienced two divergent views of a single project. The official version claimed that planning and documentation were excellent, with problems discovered during test execution being managed effectively. In fact, the project had no useful plans, so testers... |
James Christie, Claro Testing
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Testing Lessons Learned from Sesame Street
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Rob Sabourin has discovered testing lessons in the Simpsons, the Looney Tunes gang, Great Detectives, Dr. Seuss, and other unlikely places, but this year he journeys to Sesame Street. Sesame Street teaches basic life skills in a safe, entertaining, memorable style. Rob uses them to... |
Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com
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Before You Test Your System, Test Your Assumptions
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Do you find yourself discussing with your peers what you think the system you’re building should do? Do you argue over what the users want? Do discussions wind up in a heated debate? This result indicates that no shared understanding exists about the system. With a lack of... |
Aaron Sanders, Agile Coach
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Testing Compliance with Accessibility Guidelines
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Currently, 2.4 billion people use the Internet, and about 10 percent of the world’s population has some form of disability. This means millions of potential users will have difficulty accessing the Internet. Thus, accessibility testing should not be ignored. Anish Krishnan discusses the... |
Anish Krishnan, Hexaware Technologies, Ltd
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Functional Testing with Domain-Specific Languages
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Developing high-quality software requires effective communication among various project stakeholders. Business analysts must elicit customer needs and capture them as requirements, which developers then transform into working software. Software test engineers collaborate with business... |
Tariq King, Ultimate Software
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The Test Manager’s Role in Agile: Balancing the Old and the New
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What do test managers do? In traditional organizations, they assign people to projects, oversee the testers’ progress, provide feedback, and perhaps offer coaching to people who want it. Test managers are the go-to people when you don't know how to do something—not because they know... |
Mary Thorn, ChannelAdvisor
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Leveraging Automated Testing to Improve Product Quality Improving product quality is often a very difficult task for even the best software development organizations. Rajini says the additional benefits of automation include benchmarking, code scanning analysis, end-to-end test cases, and compatibility validation. |
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Quick, Before We Release Matt Heusser presents ten key factors to establish a team cadence—the time between running tests and getting a product into production. The shorter the cadence, the less time spent in test/fix/retest land, and the more time spent working on new features. |
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