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Functional Testing

Working Well with Test Design Techniques & Test Approaches

Rik Marselis

How can you spread your testing efforts over a test object in such a way that testing will be an optimal mix of effectiveness and efficiency? Using the quality-risk-level you…
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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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Test Automation

Seven Proven Ways to Ruin Your Test Automation

Seretta Gamba

There are plenty of books, blogs, talks etc. that teach how to do good test automation. The problem comes when trying to convince management to support these efforts. Showing them…
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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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Artificial Intelligence

As the World Turns; A Predictive Test Approach with Machine Learning

Adonis Celestine

As the world turns, IT world has rushed to adopt agile, DevOps and newer ways to release new features to production as soon as possible. With changes becoming the norm…
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Agile Testing

Leaving Breadcrumbs; An Agile Journey Towards Requirement Storytelling

Mia Johansson

Storytelling is a well-known term in testing as well as in other areas. This e-book tells the story of how one company increased their quality of delivery when they used…
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Functional Testing

Facing the Dragons, Dealing with Complex Unknowable Systems

James Christie

The EuroSTAR Best Paper 2018 was awarded to James Christie for his paper Facing the Dragons, Dealing with Complex Unknowable Systems. We are delighted to present it to you as…
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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

The Watercourse Framework for Producing Software Systems

Anne Mette Hass

Numerous software development models, used to depict and explain the arrangement of the software development activities, have been created over the years. These models range from waterfall to whirlpool (also…
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Test Automation

Execute Javascript with Selenium, Mastering Selenium 3.0 WebDriver

Mark Collin

The second edition of Mastering Selenium 3.0 WebDriver starts by showing you how to build your own Selenium framework with Maven. You’ll then look at how you can solve the difficult problems…
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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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People / Skills

Joy, Inc – How We Built a Workplace People Love

Richard Sheridan

Things can be better. Much better. He had to find a way. His search led him to books, authors and history, including recalling childhood visits to Greenfield Village every summer.…
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Security Testing

Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing

Vijay Kumar Velu

Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing will provide you with a number or proven techniques to defeat the latest defences on the networks using Kali Linux. From selecting the most…
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Mobile Testing

Appium Tips & Tricks: Mobile Application Testing Made Easy

Nishnat Verma

Appium is the most widely adopted mobile test automation tool. The community support has been vibrant, however, there is a lack of a structured and step-by-step guide or documentation around…
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Functional Testing

Test Techniques For The Test Analyst

Erik van Veeneddaal

Test techniques have been around for many years. They are used explicitly or implicitly by most testers. There are many sources of information with respect to test techniques, their methods…
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Test Automation

Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

Carl Cocchiaro

Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing starts off by introducing users to the Selenium Page Object Design Patterns and D.R.Y Approaches to Software Development. In doing so, it covers designing…
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Agile Testing

Testing and Quality in the Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises

Derk-Jan de Grood & Mette Bruhn-Pedersen

Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises (SAFe) is becoming the most popular framework used to help large programs and entire companies achieve business agility. It builds on well-known agile-lean principles…
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People / Skills

Career Superpowers: Succeeding on Purpose

James Whittaker

Line up all the successful people in the world. Take away the pedigreed and the prodigies—you know the people who are going to succeed no matter what—and the brown-nosers and…
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Test Automation

Python Scripting Essentials

Rejah Rehim

This is the ultimate guide that teaches you how to use Python to protect your systems against sophisticated cyber attacks. Learn to utilize your Python scripting skills to pentest a…
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People / Skills

Why We Make Mistakes; Human Error & Cognitive Biases

Dr. Andrew Brown

What are cognitive biases? Why do developers create software bugs, and why do testers fail to find them? Is the best way to improve the quality of our software to…
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Mobile Testing

Optimizing Test Automation through Android & iOS Property Files

Eran Kinsbruner

Todays mobile space is fragmented than ever. Android platform consists of 4-5 operating systems (OS) families including KitKat, Lollipop, Marshmallow, Nougat and Oreo, and iOS supports 3 leading OS families…
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Agile Testing

A Pattern Language for Agile Roadmapping

Luke Hohmann

Successfully managing the relationship between business and technology is a daunting task faced by all companies in the twenty-first century. Beyond Software Architecture is a practical guide to properly managing this mission-critical…
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Agile Testing

Beautiful Testing is Efficient Testing

Adam Goucher

Re-testing sucks. And runs counter to a tester’s mission of providing information in a timely manner. So how does one minimize how much one has to re-test? By optimizing the…
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Other

Make It Fail; Debugging

Dave Agans

This is a sample chapter from the book Debugging, which tells you how to find out what’s wrong with stuff, quick. The book provides 9 rules and related corollaries that…
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Agile Testing

Structured Conversations

Seb Rose & Gaspar Nagy

Written by the creator of SpecFlow and the author of The Cucumber for Java Book, this eBook is from “The BDD Books: Discovery” and will give the reader inside information…
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Agile Testing

Observing and Reasoning About Errors

Jerry Weinberg

Why Software Gets In Trouble? Why not just say "people make mistakes"? Why not? Because there are reasons people make mistakes, and make them repeatedly, and fail to discover and…
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People / Skills

Finding The Treasure Map

Audun Urke

How can we start testing without being slowed down by the unknown aspects of a new context? When facing a new and different setting we might have to adapt to…
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People / Skills

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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Test Automation

Java for Testers

Alan Richardson

The ‘Java For Testers‘ book is for people who want to learn Java. Automation to support testing is not limited to testers anymore, so this book is suitable for anyone wanting…
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Test Automation

Test Double Patterns

Gerard Meszaros

xUnit Test Patterns is the definitive guide to writing automated tests using xUnit, the most popular unit testing framework in use today. Agile coach and test automation expert Gerard Meszaros…
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Test Management

Test Management – Guide to Advanced Software Testing

Anne Mette Hass

Test management is the art of planning and directing a test project or a test subprocess to success. It is in many ways like project management, and yet not quite…
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Test Automation

A Complete Guide To Responsive Web Testing

Eran Kinsbruner

In this guide I outline the key building blocks which managers ought to include as part of their RWD test plan. It covers navigation testing, visual, client side performance, functional…
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Test Automation

The Pathologies of Failed Test Automation Projects

Michael Stahl

Many test automation projects start with a lot of promise but fast become a mess. Initial solutions that start well and are full of promise often end up as brittle…
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Non-Functional Testing

Application Security Testing: A New Approach

Declan O'Riordan

Application Security testing is a broad and deep topic that few Testers or Developers ever master. Static and dynamic analysis vulnerability detection tools are proven to be appallingly inaccurate. Specialised…
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People / Skills

The Power of Doubt: Becoming A Software Sceptic

Zeger Van Hese

Three words, “I don’t know“, might just be the hardest words to say in any language. We avoid saying them, scared of coming across as doubtful and uncertain. Colleagues expect…
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Functional Testing

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

Gerald Weinberg

For more than twenty-five years, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking has been hailed as an innovative introduction to systems theory, with applications in software development and testing, medicine, engineering, social sciences, architecture, and beyond. Used…
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Test Management

Critical Success Factors for Test Process Improvement

Erik van Veenendaal & Graham Bath

You can identify several factors that could be called critical to the success of a test process improvement program. You have to choose the right improvement approach to achieve a…
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Functional Testing

Exploration Principles for Non-Graphical Systems

Shmuel Gershon (Intel, Israel)

It is easy to grasp the idea of test exploration for software that has graphical user interfaces. Exploration and discovery are results of engagement of senses, and our day-to-day software…
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Agile Testing

DevOps Uncovered

Mat Rule & Stevan Zivanovic

It seems like everyone has a different answer to the question, “What is DevOps?”. A quick online search reveals that DevOps is understood as — a culture, a movement and a…
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DevOps

The What, Why, and How of DevOps

Ingo Philipp

First, let’s establish this fact: DEVOPS IS A MOVEMENT. Scan through any current software magazines or websites and you may come to this conclusion: DevOps is the most important subject in…
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People / Skills

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

Jerry Weinberg

For more than twenty-five years, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking has been hailed as an innovative introduction to systems theory, with applications in software development and testing, medicine, engineering, social sciences, architecture, and beyond. Used…
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Security Testing

Effective Python Penetration Testing

Rejah Rehim

This eBook extract from 'Effective Python Penetration Testing' will concentrate on Chapter 1: Python Scripting Essentials It will begin by providing you with an overview of Python scripting and penetration…
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Agile Testing

Continuous Testing in Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Malcolm Isaacs

Technological revolutions bring real challenges for software development, testing and operations teams. These influences include: the Internet of Things, Software as a Service, and modern delivery practices such as DevOps.…
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Test Automation

The Selenium Guidebook

Dave Haeffner

The book ‘The Selenium Guidebook‘ is not a full and comprehensive treatise that outlines every possible permutation of Selenium (the open-source software test automation tool for web applications). There are other books that already…
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Agile Testing

Agile Testing Process – Insight from the Next Generation Testing Roundtable on Agile Testing

Stevan Zivanovic

This whitepaper is based on a round table discussion on the Agile Testing process hosted by Infuse at the 2016 Next Generation Testing Conference in London. The discussion was driven…
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People / Skills

Remaining Relevant & Employable: Tester Edition

Rob Lambert

Remaining Relevant and Employable is a book for those who want to find good jobs, up-skill and do well in an interview. In this sample eBook looks at the chapter…
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Other

Continuous Testing in Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Malcolm Isaacs

Technological revolutions bring real challenges for software development, testing and operations teams. These influences include: the Internet of Things, Software as a Service, and modern delivery practices such as DevOps.…
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Test Automation

Better Test Design: A Journey to Succeed with UI Automation

Nikhil Kaul

UI automation often starts on a great note. You buy a test automation tool and start writing automated tests. But then over time, as you begin to scale your testing…
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