Mobile Testing

Challenges in Mobile Testing

Daniel Knott

This eBook contains chapter 3 ‘Challenges in Mobile Testing‘ from the mobile testing book ‘Hands-on Mobile App Testing‘ by Daniel Knott. It looks at how today, mobile apps must meet…
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People / Skills

Your Testing is a Joke

James Thomas

Edward de Bono, in his Lateral Thinking books, makes a strong connection between humour and creativity. Creativity is key to testing, but jokes? Well, the punchline for a joke could…
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Non-Functional Testing

Application Security – What Testers Can Do!

Declan O’Riordan

Application security is the poorly understood and neglected relative of both security and testing disciplines. If budget holders and big decision makers can’t grasp the necessary principles, should you stand…
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Agile Testing

Roles and Competencies

Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory

This eBook contains chapter 3, ‘Roles and Competencies’, from the testing book ‘More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team’. Here the authors describe how teams that succeed in creating high-quality…
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People / Skills

The Assertive Tester

Declan O’Riordan

Passive behaviour is a factor leading to defects, inefficiency, and security vulnerabilities in IT systems. As modern humans we mainly rely on three coping behaviours, two from our primitive past…
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Test Management

How to Assess your Test Manager

Peter Morgan, Fabián Scarano

Test Managers often assess the competence of testers. In this eBook, we turn the tables, to allow testers to assess Test Managers. As a building block along the way, we…
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Test Management

Keeping your Cucumbers Sweet

Seb Rose, Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesøy

This extract from The Cucumber for Java Book distils many years of experience gained by the Cucumber team. In it they describe the challenges that they've seen their customers struggle with when…
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Test Automation

7 Quick Ideas To Improve Your Testing

Gojko Adzic, David Evans & Tom Roden

This eBook contains an extract from  'FiftyQuick Ideas To Improve Your Tests' by Gojko Adzic, David Evans & Tom Roden. The book  is part of the series of '50 Quick Ideas' publications which…
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Test Management

Testing as a Service models

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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Other

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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Agile Testing

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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People / Skills

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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Functional Testing

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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People / Skills

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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Test Management

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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Test Management

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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People / Skills

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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Test Management

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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Test Automation

Test Automation Anecdotes

Dorothy Graham & Mark Fewster

Software test automation has moved beyond a luxury to become a necessity. Applications and systems have grown ever larger and more complex, and manual testing simply cannot keep up. This…
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Cloud Testing

Web Application Testing

David Vandervoort

David Vandervoort imparts his personal view on Web Application Testing and the approach followed by the company he works for. He states that this approach is not set in stone…
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Cloud Testing

Testing for Peak Performance

MicroFocus

Thousands or even millions of customers, partners, and employees engage with your company every day. These interactions often involve no human contact. In fact, the primary relationship many people have…
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Test Management

Taking Your Team in the Iterative Direction

Erik Boelen

This eBook tells the story of an 'action/reaction' situation Erik's test team encountered in a non-iterative environment, being 'forced' to work in small cycles. The eBook addresses three critical issues in software…
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Test Automation

Specification by Example

Gojko Adzic

We automate specifications to get fast feedback, but our primary goal should be to create executable specifications that are easily accessible and human readable, not just to automate a validation…
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Test Management

Testing Maturity Model integration (TMMi)

Erik van Veenendaal & Jan Jaap Cannegieter

TMMi is a non-commercial, organization-independent test maturity model. Erik van Veenendaal and Jan Jaap Cannegieter, also co-authors for the "The Little TMMi", have analyzed the results of almost fifty (50)…
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Cloud Testing

Performance Analysis for JUnit Test Cases

Eric Bower Scott Tilley and Tahida Parveen

This eBook is Chapter 5 from 'Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline' by Scott Tilley and Tahida Parveen. This chapter, coauthored by Eric Bower, discusses a…
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Non-Functional Testing

The Art of Application Performance Testing

Ian Molyneaux

Performance testing is a neglected cousin of functional & regression testing, which are well understood in most businesses & where the maturity level is high in many organizations. Curiously, executives lack…
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Test Management

In Pursuit of Quality

Geoff T. Dorothy G. Bob B Stuart R.

Each year, the EuroSTAR Conference Programme Chair selects a theme for the conference and this year our Programme Chair Geoff Thompson chose 'In Pursuit of Quality. EuroSTAR Conference has seen some…
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Test Management

Practical Risk Based Testing: The PRISMA Method

Erik van Veenendaal

In this eBook Erik discusses 'Practical Risk-Based Testing: The PRISMA Method.' He states that often the activities prior to test execution are delayed. This means that testing has to be done under…
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Agile Testing

Test Strategies in Agile Projects

Anders Claesson

Agile development methods are becoming more and more common in our projects. The objective is to achieve higher quality and shorter lead times with minimal overhead. A well defined agile…
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