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Create the Change You Want

Want to learn new skills without changing jobs? Many people in the software testing industry don’t last more than two or three years in the same job because they get…
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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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Context Driven Testing: A Different Context of Words, Words, Words…

Words are dangerous things. We think we know what they mean, but really I know what a word means to me. I don’t know what it means to you, and…
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Test Coverage: How A Mind Map Can Help

What is a Mind Map? A mind map is a diagram used to visually organise information. It can be called as a visual thinking tool. A Mind map allows complex…
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How I Improved My Testing Skills By Playing Dungeons And Dragons (and other roleplaying games)

You might not think it but Role Play games can contribute a lot to teach you how to improve testing skills. First contact I first started playing roleplaying games when…
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Stories: realising their potential and power in projects

Isabel Evans

For all the products we build, test and deliver, a good – great - user experience is vital to the success of our projects and organisations. We need to understand…
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Contexts 2: Words, Words, Words…

Words are dangerous things. We think we know what they mean, but really I know what a word means to me. I don't know what it means to you, and…
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Mob Testing: Better Products Through Diversity

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Many different roles contribute to building software: product owners, business specialists, testers. Yet knowledge of programming keeps these roles at a distance. In this webinar, Maaret will discuss a new…
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What is a Software Tester – Am I a Tester?

OK, here goes. New to this blog stuff, so you'll have to bear with me. I have a question I want to answer. What is a software tester? So many…
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Myths Of Software Testing: Are They True?

Software Testing is always looked at in a different way by the diverse companies that depend on websites, web applications, and enterprise applications for business operations in today's rapidly changing…
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What is Infrastructure Testing – Test it Right

The core of any business is the underlying infrastructure. The IT landscape is constantly evolving with frequent changes in OS, browsers, firmware and drivers. Infrastructure /Data centers becoming huge and…
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Joking With Jerry Part 3

This is the third part of the transcript of a conversation about the relationship between joking and testing. The jokers were Jerry Weinberg (JW), Michael Bolton (MB), James Lyndsay (JL), Damian Synadinos (DS), and me (JT). This blog post first…
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Joking with Jerry – Part 2

This is the second part of the transcript of a conversation about the relationship between joking and testing. The jokers were Jerry Weinberg (JW), Michael Bolton (MB), James Lyndsay (JL), Damian Synadinos (DS), and me (JT). This blog post first…
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Joking with Jerry

At the tail end of his recent interview at System Smarts Jerry Weinberg talked about the aha! moment of discovery and its relationship to humour: Don’t take yourself too seriously. Because…
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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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Webinar Q&A from ‘Good Testers are Often Lucky – using serendipity in software testing’

On Tuesday 5th, Rikard Edgren hosted a webinar entitled: Good Testers are Often Lucky – using serendipity in software testing (about how to increase the chances of finding valuable things we weren’t…
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Software Testing And Air Warfare

When I read this year’s EuroSTAR Conference theme - “Learning to test, testing to learn” - I thought about the possible most important thing I’ve learned through my testing career…
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Software Failure: The Tricentis Software Fail Report

History is full of unsinkable ships. The further our technology advances, the more “unsinkable” our ships appear to be. Software bugs however, (or icebergs, in our thin metaphor), are not…
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Good Testers are Often Lucky – Using Serendipity in Software Testing

Rikard Edgren

In a sampling business like testing, it’s no wonder that serendipity is a key factor. But testers seldom take pride in this “luck”, as they are unaware of all skill…
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Unconventional Wisdom V3–Testability Trap

Unconventional Wisdom “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” – Will Rogers Welcome to my Unconventional Wisdom blog. Much…
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What is the Difference between Project Manager and Test Manager?

You often see them on LinkedIn: project managers daring to “sell” themselves as test managers. Sell might be the right word, because apparently, there are companies to which this combination…
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Unconventional Wisdom V2–Traceability Truths

Unconventional Wisdom "It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so." - Will Rogers Welcome to the next issue of my Unconventional…
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What Makes A Great Testing Consultant: Lessons from the field

A new engagement is a time of reflections, learning’s from the past with a resolve for the future. Over the last decade while working on testing assessments with consultants who…
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English as a Second Language: Leasons For Software Usability Testing

I have been fortunate to get the opportunity to work with an extremely smart group of non English speaking native language speakers from various countries, in my role as an…
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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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Programming for Testers. It’s Easy!

Graham T. & Phill Isles

We hear a lot these days about how testers should learn to code, become more technical, and have more development orientated skills. Unless you came into software testing as a…
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Programming for Testers

This paper supports the ‘Programming for Testers. It’s Easy.’ webinar. With the advent of agile approaches to development testers are facing ever increasing pressure to take a more active…
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Pair Testing: Testing With Non-Testers

It’s an all-too-familiar scene. You’re approaching the end of the current sprint. You’ve had some difficulties and delays along the way, but aside from completing the testing of the final…
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Let’s Talk About…Context-Driven Testing

TEST Huddle is all about testers chatting about different aspects of testing. From test cases to the best automation tool to the best books on testing, there is always something…
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Games & Scripts

I've been reading about game development lately. It's fascinating. I’m sure there is much that conventional developers and testers could learn from the games industry. Designers need to know their…
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Mind Maps For Software Testing – Benefits and Application

Mind maps are unstructured way of taking notes. Usage of Mindmaps will always enable us to effectively organise the information/thoughts and would make any process easier. The beauty of the…
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What to Do When There Isn’t Enough Time for Testing

When I started in my current job last year, it brought positive changes and new challenges. I went from testing big and complex bank and financial systems, to testing apps…
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The Cost of Software Testing

Every decision we make, including in testing has economic benefits and costs but what is the economic cost of software testing? The Economics of Testing What makes us professional? I’ve…
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Everything Is Connected: Exploring Diversity, Innovation, Leadership

Zeger Van Hese

Paul Gerrard, gentle host of the Eurostar Conference this year, challenged me. He challenged me good. Initially I was asked to deliver “Testing in the age of distraction”, my presentation from last…
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Do We Need More Testers? Is the Demand for QA skills Increasing?

The demand for quality assurance skills is on the rise. However, the talent pool may be shallower than business leaders realise. Quality assurance (QA for short) efforts have been a…
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Soap Box Session: Martin Pol – My Career in Software Testing

This short talk features Martin Pol, Polteq, discussing his career in software testing and what he has learned. This video was recorded at the 2014 EuroSTAR Conference - Soap Box…
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Soap Box Session: Manfred Baumgartner – Gender in Testing

This short talk features Manfred Baumgartner taking a look at what the different genders can bring to software testing and he discusses his ideal tester. This video was recorded at…
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Is Crowdsourcing Good for Quality Assurance?

More organizations have considered using crowdsourcing to handle their quality assurance needs, but the approach presents a number of concerns. IT professionals are consistently tasked with carrying out a litany…
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Testing Windows 10 – What You Need to Know

With over two million public testers, Windows 10 is poised to be a bigger deal for software development and QA professionals than any previous OS release. What makes this release…
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Walking The Testing Talk 2.0

Let me explain. Did it ever happen to you that you read something or was told something, you believed you understood 100% of whatever the concept was about and then…
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Trying to Teach Testing Skills and Judgment

Rikard Edgren

Since 2011, I have spent 1500 hours of actively teaching software testing to higher vocational students in Sweden. It is educations spanning 1 to 2 years aimed at providing professionals…
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Software Testing Reports: Why Your Testing Reports May Be Costing You

If QA teams don't make the most of their reporting efforts, they will squander a golden opportunity to enhance the quality of their software development practices. The reporting phase of the…
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A Critique of Testing

In this paper we explore the fundamental concepts of test case design and provide a detailed analysis of each method in terms of them. A series of articles (available as…
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Communication in the software development life cycle: Lessons from NASA’s $328 million failure

NASA launched the $328 million Mars Climate Orbiter into space back in 1998, with the mission to study the climate of the planet. Just nine months after the craft was…
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Open Access Testbed Facilities Available to Software Companies in Europe

Donal Morris

Software Managers requiring access to infrastructure to test out and validate their new products in the cloud, mobile, wireless, and wired network space will be interested to hear about the…
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Remote testing – testing for experts

Two years ago my colleague wrote an article about desirable character traits of the Worldwide Software Tester. Mainly he noticed such values as: flexibility, open-mind, curiosity, politeness. I encourage you to…
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Practices and Attitudes in Software Testing

Get a first glance at the EuroSTAR Software Testing Report 2014 Later this month, EuroSTAR will publish the first EuroSTAR Software Testing Report - the results and findings of…
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Defence Against the Dark Arts

Laurent Bossavit

In this Google Hangout Laurent Bossavit will share ideas from "Defence Against the Dark Arts", the workshop he did with Michael Bolton at CAST 2014. This workshop focused on…
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Guide to Software Testing: 6 Tips for New Testers

Early in your career, you – as a novice tester - probably concerns considerably about what you should do to become a great tester. As a newbie, you certainly want…
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10 Commandments for Software Testers – Rules to Improve Your Testing

We live in a world which continues to change every day: lots of things are done differently today, compared with yesterday. We started with punched tapes back in 60’s, we…
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