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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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