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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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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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

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

The Deep Rationality of Software Testing At the 27th EuroSTAR Conference in Prague, Anders Dinsen was presented with infamous award for Best Paper with this body of work. We are…
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People / Skills

Why Does Technical Debt Exist?

Andrew Brown

Technical debt is a well-documented endemic problem within software development. However, to understand why high levels of technical debt exist within most organisations, we need to change the way we…
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Blockchain

The Risk and Test in Bitcoin

Declan O'Riordan

If there were no risk of anything ever going wrong, there would be no case for Testing. Although Testing and Assurance activities are part of Risk Management, the blue pill…
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Test Automation

How to Keep Your Test Automation Suite Fit

Bas Dijkstra

Bloated Automation? For many software-producing organizations, test automation is—or is quickly becoming—a cornerstone of their software development processes. Development teams are increasingly relying on automated checks to ensure that software…
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Agile Testing

TMMi in the Agile Era

Erik van Veenendaal

This e-book introduces the reader to the TMMi model for test process Improvement. Today TMMi is the most commonly used model, and as such the de-facto standard, for test process…
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Cloud Testing

Spring Security – Cloud Automation

Mick Knutson, Robert Winch & Peter Mularien

Spring Security – Third Edition starts by integrating a variety of authentication mechanisms. It then demonstrates how to properly restrict access to your application. It also covers tips on integrating with…
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