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EuroSTAR Software Testing Report 2014

Practices & Attitudes in Software Testing (PAST) is an independent study of how software testing professionals in Europe undertake their testing practices, examining how they currently approach testing and how…
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High Volume Performance Testing driven by Virtualization of a data centre

OBJECTIVE Data centres have been identified as one of the key focus areas of IT organization’s Green efficiency campaigns with the other two being networks and buildings (data centres consume…
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EuroSTAR 2014 – The Countdown has begun

EuroSTAR 2014 in Dublin is less than 2 weeks away! Thanks to TESTHuddle I will be going and a 4 year long dream to attend this awesome test conference is…
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Is TDD Dead? Challenging the TDD Model

Currently, there is no universal solution for IT projects that take far too long, to deliver far little value, for far too much money. This triangulation of time, function and…
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Upcoming Events: Week of Nov 10th

This week’s schedule of software testing events includes: Sunday, 9th - 12th November Better Software Conference East Monday, 10th November Agile Testing Days Tuesday, 11th November UNICOM Next Generation Testing Conference…
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Webinar

Testing as a Service Model

Jonathon Wright

The Testing landscape is changing forever, the traditional approach to providing business value through testing is constantly being challenged. So businesses need to constantly re-examine the real value of testing…
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The Role of a Tester in Agile Enterprise

Malcolm Isaacs

In a classical Agile team, testers and developers work together in Feature teams to produce functioning software at each sprint. Sounds simple, right? But as enterprises scale up their Agile…
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Speed Up Software Delivery with Agile

Agile development methods can help organizations speed up their software production cycles while maintaining strict quality assurance guidelines. The software development market has never been as competitive as it is today. More organizations are throwing their…
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Webinar

Scaling Agile to the Enterprise to achieve Quality and Velocity

Kelly Emo

In this presentation, we will share why scaling Agile development to the enterprise is vital to meet growing business expectations for fast, high quality application delivery. We will dig into…
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The Real Agile Testing Quadrants

Michael Bolton

Over the last several years, a set of ideas and activities have been dumped into a steamer trunk called Agile software development. Agile development has hit mainstream recognition, even though…
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Upcoming Events: Week of October 20th

This week’s schedule of software testing events includes: Tuesday, 21st October TestExpo 2014 Wednesday, 22nd October [Webinar] A New Agile Testing Ecosystem with Michael Bolton Cork Software Testing Meetup…
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G(r)ood Testing Volume 4 – Who will test the spreadsheets?

Recently we held an session at our office. The Guest of honour was Felienne Hermans of the Technical University of Delft. She has an PHD in testing spreadsheets. Quite a…
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Speed up software delivery with agile

Agile development methods can help organizations speed up their software production cycles while maintaining strict quality assurance guidelines. The software development market has never been as competitive as it is…
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Guide to Software Testing: 6 Tips for New Testers

Early in your career, you – as a novice tester - probably concerns considerably about what you should do to become a great tester. As a newbie, you certainly want…
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Webinar

Slow Down to Speed Up – Leveraging Quality to Enable Productivity and Speed

Fran O'Hara

Despite extensive uptake in Agile and more recently Lean approaches, many teams and organisations still struggle to achieve a required level of software quality. To maintain sustained productivity and speed…
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The Core of Testing: Dynamic Testing Process according to ISO 29119

Anne Mette Hass

This eBook is an extract from the 'Guide to Advanced Software Testing (second edition)' by Anne Mette Hass. It covers the core processes, techniques, templates and practices of software testing…
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The 3 Pillars Approach to Agile Testing Strategy

Bob Galen & Mary Thorn

Far too often agile adoptions focus just on the development teams, agile frameworks, or technical practices as a part of their adoption strategies. And then there’s the near perpetual focus…
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G(r)ood Testing Volume 3 – Role of test Manager in Testing

What is the role of test manager in Testing? A colleague said to me: "I've been in the testing profession now for many years. In each of the test management…
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The Three Pillars of Agile Quality & Testing

Bob Galen & Mary Thorn

Mary Thorn and Bob Galen are working on a new agile testing book to be published in Q4 2014 – Q1 2015. It will focus on a framework for guiding…
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API Functional Testing – The Black-Box approach

I'm a big fan of the BAT Series from John Sonmez (SimpleProgrammer), a good start for testers doing Web automation. These series of articles show you a clear and simple…
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G(r)ood Testing V2 – Rather a good specification than an elaborate test design

There is an interesting tension between agile and documentation. I often hear people complain about the lack of documentation in agile projects. "Organizations use scrum as an excuse for…
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Testing in Scrum – A Guide for Software Quality Assurance in the Agile World

Tilo Linz

These days, the software development for more and more projects is being carried out using agile methods, such as Scrum, XP or other agile methods. Even in large-scale projects and…
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Get Ready for the EuroSTARonline Virtual Conference!

There is just four weeks left until the fourth annual EuroSTARonline Virtual Conference and we are REALLY excited! :-) What is EuroSTARonline? It is a FREE full-day virtual event which…
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Choosing the right mobile test automation tool – What to Think About

According to a research conducted by Pinch Media Data in 2009, the average shelf-life of a mobile application is only 30 days. The number of mobile applications has since exploded…
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How to Develop Models for Model Based Testing?

Or How a journey to Florence can help you to understand models for testing. During my work on a program to demonstrate how Model Based Testing in test automation works, …
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A Different Approach to Quality Assurance

When I went to the job interview for my currently position, the interviewer kept saying that I was going to become a tester/test manager in a project – and not…
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Webinar

Integrate Test Activities in Agile

Rik Marselis

In traditional testing a tester spreads the testing activities over various phases. To be able to effectively test in Agile projects the test activities should be properly integrated in the…
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What is Parallel Testing: A Guide to A Semi-Automated Approach to Testing

With all the pros and cons of both Manual and Automated testing types, there is always a big concern while running any testing process – it’s all about budget and…
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Upcoming Events: Week of July 21st

This week’s schedule of software testing events includes: Wednesday, July 23rd Live Webinar: Integrate Test Activities in Agile Projects with Rik Marselis Sign up here. Sunday, July 27th - Wednesday…
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eBook

Software Testing Tips: Experiences & Realities

Baris Sarialioglu

For any software-producing company, basic prerequisites to be successful in delivering good software depend on having talented people and setting smart processes. Throughout the book, a common sense approach to…
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Agile testing innovations in a distributed world

Increased transparency and the need to drive quantitative business outcomes with a “right the first time” expectation are key drivers for the transition to agile methodologies. This transition demands a…
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Test Environment – Getting the Test Environment Strategy Right

Many wonder, why do we require multiple environments like Development, Test and Production? How much money did the test environment cost? What is the ROI of the test environment? The…
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Agile testing in distributed teams

This is the story of two QA Managers, Laura and Milo, working in a typical onsite-offshore outsourcing IT practice. While Laura hails from Spain and works in Oslo, Milo is…
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Testing goes pro, the butterfly effect

Introduction: We are living in a beautiful world. Especially when you love change. Yes, a lot of things are changing the last few years. In our private lives, in…
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The effects of combining QA and Test

The blog post summarizes the work done during the start-up of a large IT project for a Norwegian Governmental organization. The aim is to visualize the combined effects from different…
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Postcards from the Trenches: Lessons Learned in Software Development Projects

Over the course of a project a tester will take on many roles and activities in a project and through these will gain valuable experiences. Over time you as a…
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How to Get What you Want from Testing – Hangout with Michael Bolton

You can type your questions for Michael below and we will address these during the Hangout. Biography Michael Bolton is a software tester, consultant, and trainer with 20 years…
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Webinar

Ten Minute Test Plan

James Whittaker

Anything in software development that takes ten minutes or less to perform is either trivial or is not worth doing in the first place. If you take this rule of…
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eBook

Software in Use

Karen N. Johnson

Karen N. Johnson's chapter from Beautiful Testing published by O'Reilly in 2008 describes how her professional experience intersected with her personal life while testing medical software. This roughly 15-page chapter…
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We Don’t Need Testers, Anyone Can Test! – A Developer Testing View

Would you agree with this statement or not? What is the importance of testers and their role in the software world? I learned some of the answers as a developer…
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Upcoming Events: Week of June 23

This week’s schedule of software testing events includes: Tuesday, June 24th Live Webinar: With Cloud Computing, Who Needs Performance Testing? with Albert Witteeven. More information and free registration here. TestNet Theme…
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QA Release Process: What to Do When a Project Moves Into Maintenance

There is no doubt that the QA process needs to change when a software development project goes to production environment used by real users. This is true for both agile…
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eBook

Model-Based Testing for Systems of Systems

Paul C. Jorgensen

For Model-Based testing to be successful, it is necessary to model the system to be tested with an executable model-the most common ones are decision tables, finite state machines, statecharts,…
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G(r)ood Testing Volume 2 – Rather a good specification than an elaborate test design

There is an interesting tension between agile and documentation. I often hear people complain about the lack of documentation in agile projects. "Organizations use scrum as an excuse for not…
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Podcast

Are We Failing at UI Automation?

Jim Holmes talks about a few of the high-level reasons for teams struggling with UI automation, and gives some ideas on avoiding, or moving past those same struggles. Biography Jim…
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eBook

Double eBook: Tester Motivation – the results from a 600 tester survey

Stuart Reid

An extensive survey on the motivation of over 600 testers has been performed and the results are presented in this eBook. The eBook comprises three parts. Initially there is a…
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Webinar

Disruptive Testing

Anne-Marie Charrett

New technologies and a need for innovation mean we test within a rapidly changing and evolving environment. But no matter how much we estimate and plan, something seems to throw…
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Webinar

Why Every Systems Test Department Should Have a Test Developer (…or Two)

Kristoffer Nordström

The webinar describes why there is a need for a system test department to add the skill set of a test developer to the system test department. What unique skills…
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Live Speaker Showcase

There is just a few days left before we begin the EuroSTAR Live Speaker Showcase. Don't miss our five thought provoking live webinars from Anne-Marie Charrett, Karen Johnson, Kristoffer Nordström,…
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Mobile Testing – the relation between tests, business goals and design considerations

Testing Mobile requires technical tests that align with both the business goals, and the design considerations made by development team. Due to the small size of app projects, tester can…
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Grood Testing Vol 1 – The Sales funnel, What we can learn from colleagues at the Sales department

Many sales departments use the so-called sales funnel as a tool to measure the effectiveness of their sales process. The top of this funnel is the in-lead for the leads,…
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An Agile update to requirements documentation and testing

Times are always changing in the IT industry and newer work methods like Agile were a wind of change that swept away dusty old practices in the way development and…
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eBook

Moving to Weekly Releases

Robert Lambert

This eBook is based on Rob's popular presentation at EuroSTAR 2013 and it describes how he fundamentally changed his approach to testing in order to move from 8 month to…
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eBook

Using Your Visual Superpowers

Torbjörn Ryber

In a system development project there can be a lot of written material for us to interpret as well as assumptions that some things are already understood. We all make a lot…
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eBook

Situational Testing

Jan Jaap Cannegieter, Roger Wouterse, Bart Fessl & Sven van Galen

Every organisation, every system and every project is different, so every test project requires a unique approach. Situational testing offers various forms of testing and allows you to complete your…
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Testing in the Age of Distraction

Zeger Van Hese

How do you benefit from distraction? We live in curious times. Knowledge is available at our fingertips, everywhere. Social networks increase communication with peers from around the world but along…
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Why Test Automation? Automation Benefits and Advantages

In today´s fast moving world, it is a challenge for any company to continuously maintain and improve the quality and efficiency of software systems development. In many software projects, testing…
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Case Study

Adapting Test Automation through the Back Door (by Supporting Manual Testing)

In this case study, Seretta first describes how they started with test automation, which strategies we applied, and then how they solved the progressive stagnation by supporting manual testing. "I will…
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eBook

Introduction to Google Software Testing

James Whittaker

This eBook is an excerpt from James Whittaker's book entitled:'How Google Tests Software'. Here James addresses a question he gets asked more than any other. Regardless of the country he…
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Risk Based Testing – Advanced Software Testing: Volume 2

Rex Black

This eBook is an excerpt from Rex Black's book, Advanced Software Testing: Volume 2. It consists of the section concerning risk-based testing and how risk-based testing responds to risks including identifying…
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