eBook Archives | EuroSTAR Huddle

Test Automation

Delivering Better Software Using Test Automation

XRAY

When companies today are trying to ship as fast as possible, test automation is becoming more and more essential. According to a recent survey by PractiTest & Tea-Time with Testers,…
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Test Management

The Ultimate Web Security Testing Handbook for QA and Testers

Konstantin Sakhchinskiy

When it comes to software QA and testing professionals, certain areas of knowledge can significantly enhance their skills and help them improve the security of the software systems they work…
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DevOps

Native Quality Management: Build Better Software – Together

Tonislava Docheva

This eBook delves into the concept of a "quality centric culture" where quality is everyone's responsibility, urging a shift from viewing QA as a separate phase to integrating it throughout…
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Test Automation

Getting started with Functional Test Automation

Testsigma

If you're already engaged in manual testing, this ebook is a neutral guide that can help you get started with low-code automation testing. It provides practical insights, strategies, and best…
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Test Management

Streamlining Test Data Management for Effective Software Testing

Ingo Phillipp, Pomil Bachan Proch & Jeevan Koneti

In today's rapidly evolving digital era, software has metamorphosed from a mere tool to a transformational force, propelling growth, fostering innovation, and shaping our hyperconnected society. Software permeates every facet…
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Functional Testing

Designing & Testing for the Billion Voices

Adonis Celestine and Julia Zacharias

We are living in an era where Metaverses are blurring the line between the physical and digital worlds. An average person spends close to 8 hours per day in the…
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People / Skills

Embracing Adversity: a Learnership’s Story

Ezanne Grobler

Adversities are not uncommon in the business world, with organizations often facing challenges that can either make or break them. However, embracing adversity and turning it into an opportunity can…
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Test Automation

BDD Formulation: Cleaning Up an Old Scenario

Seb Rose & Gáspár Nagy

This is a chapter from the book Formulation – Document examples with Given/When/Then. What do good scenarios using the Given/When/Then-based format called Gherkin look like? Good scenarios can illustrate requirements,…
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Test Management

Exploratory Testing As Code

Brendan Connolly

Across the software industry, development has a uniform process: pull a work item, analyze requirements, code, review, merge and release. Testing processes however, vary wildly across teams and this variation…
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Other

How Minimalism Helps Build High Quality Products and Teams

Lina Zubyté

This is the winner of the EuroSTAR 2023 Best Paper Award. We hope you enjoy! As a quality analyst, Lina often finds she needs to ask questions that may be…
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Test Automation

Continuous Testing Infrastructure

LambdaTest

In today's evolving business landscape, companies must reinvent themselves and generate new revenue streams to remain competitive.Software delivery mastery is crucial, going beyond Continuous Delivery to establish Continuous Value Delivery.…
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Mobile Testing

Solving the Biggest Challenges in the Mobile App Development Lifecycle

Sauce Labs

While mobile app development and testing are inherently complex, by utilizing integrated test and error reporting solutions that provide quality visibility and insights across the entire mobile app SDLC, teams…
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Agile Testing

Unlocking Agile Testing

Tonislava Docheva

Agile testing has emerged as a proven methodology that can help companies meet this challenge. By implementing agile testing practices, companies can improve time to market by 18-20%. This eBook…
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Test Automation

Navigating The Brave New World Of API Testing

Karate Labs

Have you ever wondered if your teams should be doing more API testing? Do you have trouble convincing your development team to embrace tests that represent end-user flows? Read this…
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Non-Functional Testing

Gear Up Your Application Performance

Leela Putten

Performance Testing is a test discipline that forms part of the wider practice of performance engineering in IT. The QA & testing team can add a lot of value if…
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People / Skills

Put Your Mindset To The Test: The One Asset You Need To Shape Your Testing

Barry Ehigiator

“Your mindset is the most powerful asset you need to shape your testing, and the contribution you make to your team.” The discussion about mindset in the software testing…
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Test Management

What’s Your Test Design Debt?

Wim Decoutere

As projects and companies grow, so does their number of test cases and thus the number of duplicate, inconsistent, and irrelevant test cases. Every change in the system requires a…
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Test Management

How To Sell Excellent Testing: 8 Principles for Communicating the Value of Excellent Software Testing

Ingo Philipp

The importance of software testing is often not recognised by management in organisations. Sometimes you have to demonstrate the real benefits of testing. That can be hard to do. This eBook…
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Test Automation

Who Are We? What Are We Doing? How Are We Doing It? An Exploration of Testers’ Stories About Test Tools and Automation

Isabel Evans

After years as a software tester, Isabel Evans decided to expand her horizons by becoming a student and researching testing, She wanted to explore testers’ experiences with the tools and…
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Test Automation

A False Sense of Security: Why API Tests and Monitors Fail to Detect and Diagnose Many Bugs

Sauce Labs

Development and QA/testing leaders increasingly agree that quality must be baked into all builds, resulting in a nice double-helix of productivity that can save a lot of pain and costs.…
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Test Management

Quality Conscious Software Delivery

Lalitkumar Bhamare

Awarded the EuroSTAR 2022 Software Testing Best Paper award, this eBook explores how Quality Conscious Software Delivery can help improve quality in your organisation. Major digital and business transformations taking…
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Artificial Intelligence

Quality & Testing of Artificial Intelligence

Sander Mol/Peter Collewijn/Hannie van Kooten

This eBook is a guide to the world of AI testing and implementation. The authors will bring you on a journey to explore the AI test process to help you…
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People / Skills

Software Development Next Challenge – Human Factors In Software Testing

Andrew Brown

The biggest problems in software development are not technical, but are human! Our industry knows this, yet we do very little with this knowledge. This eBook explores 10 major failings…
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Test Management

Native Quality Management Build Better Software – Together

XRAY

Historically, software development and quality assurance were one and the same. If you built it, you also tested it. But then software grew up, and as it got more and…
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Test Management

Software Test Plan Template Guide

Michael Stahl

This ebook is a guide to a test template that you can apply at your own work. One of the things of test planning we sometimes struggle with is the…
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Agile Testing

Continuous Quality – The Secret of the Pharaohs

Adonis Celestine

We are fortunate to be in an industry buzzing with energy creating exciting innovations and tools, every single day. However, time and again, building reliable software has remained a challenge.…
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Test Automation

A Journey Through Test Automation Patterns

Dorothy Graham & Seretta Gamba

This is a guide to Test Automation Patterns. This eBook is taken from “A Journey through Test Automation Patterns”, by Seretta Gamba and Dorothy Graham, published on Amazon. This extract…
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Mobile Testing

Solving the Key Challenges in Mobile App Development Lifecycle

Sauce Labs

In a heavily fragmented mobile app environment, developing applications compatible with multiple platforms and validating dynamic real-user conditions represents a big challenge. Mobile QA teams face unique challenges to scale…
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People / Skills

30/60/90 Day Plan for New QA Leaders

Keysight Technologies

Have you or someone you know recently moved to a managerial position in software Quality Assurance? Designed for new QA leaders, this eBook is for you. Get up to speed…
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Test Automation

Developing A Strategy And Business Case For Test Automation

This eBook gives tips on how to introduce test automation into your test strategy and how to build a business case to get leadership approval. It then discusses various Parasoft…
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Other

Encouraging Children into Testing

Kari Kakkonen

This eBook explains that we should get children to start with software testing because otherwise we only get coding skills started at an early age, and as we know, software…
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People / Skills

The Pelzman Effect

Andrew Brown

We add test phases to find bugs and improve quality. But what if adding more phases made no difference? In the Peltzman Effect, humans adjust their behaviour in response to…
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Test Management

Building Test Strategy

Karolina Zmitrowicz

Think about the importance of building a test strategy. What do you first think about? Testing is one of the processes that support quality assurance and quality control of software…
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Test Automation

Software Test Automation Implemented: Achieving Return on Investment.

Christos Fragkos

Software Test Automation has become an industry necessity and many organisations are trying to implement it effectively. However, organisations need to make sure that the right strategies, processes and technologies…
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Agile Testing

Testing In The Scaled Agile Framework

Gitte Ottosen

The arrival of the different scaled agile development models has changed the way of working in an agile context. Scaled Agile Framework or is one of those models. In this…
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DevOps

The State of Testing in DevOps

mabl

This is the second Benchmark Report on the State of Testing in DevOps created by mabl. Every year they send out a survey to gain insight into how leading DevOps…
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Test Management

Software Metrics – A Practical Guide For The Curious Tester

Codacy

Software Metrics Guide If you’re looking for ways to complement qualitative judgement with data points to make better decisions, this book is for you. We’ve quizzed tens of thousands of…
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Non-Functional Testing

Uncover Product Risks With Exploratory Testing

Xray

Uncover Product Risks With Exploratory Testing With over 100+ types of product risks, it’s impossible that all of your scripted/pre-planned tests will cover all potential threats to your software. Adding…
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Test Automation

Automation In Testing

Martin Gijsen

In this eBook, 'Automation in Testing' Martin Gijsen first describes PUPPET, a fairly simple model for automation in testing. This eBook contains the first seven chapters of a brand new…
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Test Automation

A Test Automation Learning Path

Bas Dijkstra

Test Automation Learning Path Bas Dijkstra has been working in test automation for 14 years. During this time, he has learnt a lot, not only about becoming a better test…
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Agile Testing

Agile Product Quality

Erik van Veenendaal

Contrary to what is commonly assumed, Agile software development does not always, in practice, result in higher levels of product quality. This is despite the fact that quality is said…
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Agile Testing

Maintaining Quality Standards When Nothing Stays Constant

Mia Johansson

Building A House Maintaining Quality Standards When Nothing Stays Constant By now, software projects have been around for a while. However, in the grand scheme of things, they are still…
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Functional Testing

Guide To UI Testing With Continuous Integration

SmartBear

Functional user interface tests, or UI tests, are one component of the testing process, and the testing process is just one aspect of the software development process. With the demand…
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Agile Testing

The T-Shaped Tester

Erik van Veenendaal

In this Agile era the concept of being a T-shaped person is a popular one. This is defined as someone who is capable in many things and an expert in…
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Agile Testing

3-Pillars of Agile Quality & Testing

Bob Galen

Key Actionable Learnings Explores the agile test automation pyramid as a strategy for building balanced, multi-tier, multi-tool automation frameworks. Details how to integrate traditional testing approaches and tactics within agile…
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Other

Dragon’s Out

Kari Kakkonen

Here is a fun read about software testing, suitable for all ages. Mr. Kari Kakkonen has written the book with the idea of getting children interested in software testing, but…
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Test Management

Kolb’s Testing Cycle

Beren Van Daele

We humans are a learning species. It comes natural to us and just because it feels so easy to do, we are ignorant of its inner workings. When faced with…
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DevOps

DevOps & Test Automation

Sune Engsig

With automation technology, the potential for digital transformation is essentially unlimited. But somewhere down the line something went wrong. A piece of code broke, leaving automation software in the dark,…
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People / Skills

The Deep Rationality of Software Testing

Anders Dinsen

At the 27th EuroSTAR Conference in Prague, Anders Dinsen was presented with infamous award for Best Paper with this body of work. We are honoured to present another invaluable member…
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Test Automation

Selenium WebDriver for Functional Automation Testing

Rex Jones II

Using the quality-risk-level you decide on the test intensity needed. To achieve that test intensity, test approaches and test design techniques are used. But there are very many approaches and…
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