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Making Testing at eBay More Realistic[presentation]
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Have you had customers report issues that cannot be reproduced in the test environment? Have you had defects leak into production because your test environment is not... |
Kamini Dandapani, eBay, Inc.
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STAREAST 2014: Continuous Testing through Service Virtualization[presentation]
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The demand to accelerate software delivery and for teams to continuously test and release high quality software sooner has never been greater. However, whether your release strategy is... |
Allan Wagner, IBM
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Video: Principles Before Practices: Transform Your Testing by Understanding Key Concepts[presentation]
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It’s one thing to be exposed to new techniques from conferences and training courses, but it’s quite another thing to apply them in real life. A major reason is that people tend to... |
Randy Rice, Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to User Acceptance Testing[presentation]
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On large enterprise projects, the user acceptance test (UAT) is often envisioned to be a grand event where the users accept the software, money is paid, and the congratulations and... |
Randy Rice, Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
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The Origins and Future of Scrum: An Interview with Ken Schwaber[interview] In this interview with Dr. Charles Suscheck, Ken Schwaber, one of the signatories of the 2001 Agile Manifesto, describes the first days of Scrum, the biggest threats to agile, and the next big idea in the Scrum framework: evidence-based management. |
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Agile Resiliency: An Interview with Jeff Dalton[interview]
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Jeff Dalton is an author, a consultant with more than twenty-five years of software process improvement experience, and president of Broadsword, a management-consulting firm. In this interview, Jeff talks about agile resiliency and large organizations making the agile transition. |
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Excite and Delight Your Customers by Using the Kano Model[article] Chandra Munagavalasa writes that because the requirements change over time, the product backlog is never complete. As the project progresses and more detailed information becomes available, the product backlog items and their rankings change continually. One of the many techniques available for ranking the product backlog is the Kano model. |
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Improving the Efficiency of Your Metrics: An Interview with Mike Trites[interview]
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In this interview, Mike Trites, a senior test consultant, talks about his upcoming presentation at STAREAST 2014, the future of metrics, the importance of improving the efficiency of your metrics, and even an interesting take on the old phrase that numbers never lie. |
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The Three Amigos Strategy of Developing User Stories[article] Developing software correctly is a detail-oriented business. George Dinwiddie writes on how using the Three Amigos strategy can help you develop great user stories. Remember, the goal is to have the work done just in time for planning and development. It should be complete enough to avoid stoppages to build more understanding, but not so far in advance that the details get stale. |
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How Agile Impacts Configuration Management and Testing: An Interview with Steve Berczuk[interview]
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Steve Berczuk is a regular contributor to TechWell and StickyMinds and a principal engineer and ScrumMaster at Fitbit in Boston. In this interview, Steve discusses configuration management and agile, helpful tools, and how testing has evolved over the years with the rise of agile. |
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The Rules for Writing Maintainable Code[magazine] We've all been burned working with software code that, if not designed for long-term maintainability, results in expensive support over a product's lifetime. Kaushal explores three approaches that provide guidelines to ensure that software is designed with maintainability in mind. If you're a software developer, read this! |
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How Depersonalizing Work and Managing Flow Can Humanize the Workplace[article] Using metrics such as cumulative flow to monitor throughput and quantitative thinking may not seem very humanistic, but by depersonalizing the work being done, we can focus our energies on solving actual problems instead of conducting a daily witch-hunt and shaming people into high performance. |
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Navigating Your Agile Testing Transition: An Interview with Mary Thorn[interview]
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Mary Thorn sits down to talk about her presentation at STAREAST 2014, her affinity for agile testing methodologies, common problems facing teams transitioning to agile, her decision to become a ScrumMaster, and her testing background that spans automation and web-based systems. |
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Should QA Perform Unit Testing?[magazine] In this FAQ column, Linda Hayes addresses the question: "Should QA Perform Unit Testng?" Detailing why and who should perform unit testing to ensure the best possible outcome. |
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The Evolution of z/OS Development[article] Kristin Cowhey explains how z/OS development has evolved throughout the years and what that means for developers and tech personnel. With legacy developers leaving the workforce, there’s a dire need to replace the knowledge in order to maintain the mainframe systems and applications that are still in use today. |
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