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The Test Lab: STARWEST 2015 Interview with Bart Knaack and Wade Wachs
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In this interview, TechWell speaks with Bart Knaack, test advisor at Professional Testing, and his partner at the Test Lab, Wade Wachs. Bart gave a keynote at STARWEST titled "The Survival Guide for Testers and Test Managers." |
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4 Steps to Level Up Your Testing Game and Advance Your Career As more businesses are adopting DevOps and demanding continuous delivery, it's important for testers to constantly upgrade their skills. By leveraging the right resources, including developer and application performance management tools, you can play a bigger and more collaborative role in producing higher-quality output. |
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Test Data Management: A Healthcare Industry Case Study
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As IT systems increase in both scale and complexity, delivering quality applications becomes more challenging. In addition to creating and executing test scenarios, testers need to create and maintain the test data that enables test execution. Test data management (TDM) creates and... |
Jatinder Singh, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Shaheer Mohammed, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
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Soft Skills You Need Are Not Always Taught in Class
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For years in the software industry, the focus of discussion, programs, and expense has been on career skill development to enhance team performance. To support skill development, a variety of certifications and training opportunities have been created to increase technical knowledge... |
Jon Hagar, Independent Consultant
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Testing Is the Profession I Chose
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Never underestimate the power of sharing the testing team’s achievements, lessons learned, challenges faced, roadblocks encountered, and the enriching solutions found. Jyothi Rangaiah says as testers we must be ready to nurture the needs of testing and testers in the organizations we serve. |
Jyothi Rangaiah
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The Evolution of Testing Centers of Excellence According to Rajini Padmanaban, a testing center of excellence (TCoE) must be instituted for the establishment of any enterprise software development organization. Rajini presents the latest TCoE trends used by successful IT organizations. |
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How Touch Time Impacts Delivery What does a developer do after a task is completed and testing takes over? Wait for testing results? Matt Heusser presents innovative techniques to keep everyone's pace going even after handoffs. |
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Improve Testing with a Zone Defense
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At one time or another, every tester hears the dreaded question, “Why didn’t you guys catch these bugs?” We all have some standard responses, and they are most likely true). But what can we learn about our testing when we look beyond the easy answers? Pamela Gillaspie proposes that the... |
Pamela Gillaspie, TestPlant
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Lean Test Management: Reduce Waste in Planning, Automation, and Execution
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Testing enterprise software requires effective resource management to prevent costly delays, budget overruns, and failed projects. In many software projects, more than 50 percent of development costs are attributed to software testing activities. With testing accounting for such a large... |
Tariq King, Ultimate Software
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Things That Really Matter in Testing—Today and Tomorrow
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After a twenty-year career at Microsoft, Bj Rollison took some time to reflect on the software testing profession. Bj has seen many positive changes in our field through the years. Unfortunately, he also has seen too many of us still mired in trends and topics that make good fodder for... |
Bj Rollison
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