On demand testing or Testing as a Service (TaaS) offers a pay-per-use method to augment the more traditional QA activities. To enable many of these on demand services requires tools… Read More +
Using Influence diagrams to analyse cause and effect during a change programme At EuroSTAR 2014, Isabel spoke about what happens when change programmes go wrong. The keynote was based on an analysis… Read More +
Despite extensive uptake in Agile and more recently Lean approaches, many teams and organisations still struggle to achieve a required level of software quality. To maintain sustained productivity and speed… Read More +
Most test professionals have worked at some time or other in difficult organisations, dysfunctional cultures, and for unreasonable managers and stakeholders. This causes much internal stress and creates fear instead… Read More +
Far too often agile adoptions focus just on the development teams, agile frameworks, or technical practices as a part of their adoption strategies. And then there’s the near perpetual focus… Read More +
Whether we are testing a mobile-only application or the mobile interface to existing software, there are a number of testing challenges that are unique to the mobile platform. In this… Read More +
Get a copy of the slides here. We are increasingly moving towards mobile devices to fulfil our day-to-day computing needs. More smartphones are sold than PCs but many people are… Read More +
We live in curious times. Knowledge is available at our fingertips, everywhere. Social networks increase communication with peers from around the world but along with these marvels of the information… Read More +
Paul believes that our existing models of testing are not fit for purpose – they are inconsistent, controversial, partial, proprietary and stuck in the past. They are not going to… Read More +
I’m often asked the question “what is your favourite test tool?” to which I respond “tea”. I’m often met with a blank face after my response… You see, the power… Read More +
In traditional testing a tester spreads the testing activities over various phases. To be able to effectively test in Agile projects the test activities should be properly integrated in the… Read More +
With cloud computing we can add more hardware resources on the fly. Considering how expensive load and stress testing can be, why don't we just add more power when needed?… Read More +
New technologies and a need for innovation mean we test within a rapidly changing and evolving environment. But no matter how much we estimate and plan, something seems to throw… Read More +
The webinar describes why there is a need for a system test department to add the skill set of a test developer to the system test department. What unique skills… Read More +
This webinar looks at the evolution of application security testing and is presented by security testing expert Declan O'Riordan. O' Riordan speaks about the historical path to the present situation,… Read More +
In this webinar Karen Johnson talks about the art of asking questions. As software testers, we need to learn a product thoroughly, we need to understand the user interface, the… Read More +
Software development is about people. But how do you recognize an excellent testing professional? And how do you get the right people in your projects? It is hard to recognize… Read More +
As testers, project managers, or consultants, we are paid to tell the truth as we see it. But what to us is evident fact about our projects can be unwelcome… Read More +
The results of a motivation survey of over 600 testers are presented in this webinar. The study separated out the survey respondents into six distinct testing roles: Developer/Tester, Test Analyst, Test… Read More +
Functional testing your web applications can be extraordinarily frustrating. Intermittent failures, lots of rework and tinkering, and too little time spent on creating new value for your customers. In this… Read More +
Releasing your product more frequently requires you to change the way you view testing and the role of a tester. In his workplace, Lambert moved from yearly releases to weekly… Read More +
Bj Rollison reveals best practices for crafting automated tests: "Over the past year or so, I have been tasked to clean up the automation stack in our feature area. During… Read More +
The "cloud" can deliver services over the Internet in three flavors: software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Testing cloud services… Read More +
It can be difficult to know know what solid testing is all about within agile teams. What traditional practices are fine to continue, which ones need modification, and what totally… Read More +
Charrett uses examples from coaching sessions that demonstrate the coaching we do, as well as give insights as to how this coaching helps to motivate and eventually liberate the tester.… Read More +
On traditional projects, testers tend to join the project after coding has started, or sometimes almost finished. Testers and programmers may not communicate except through the defect tracking system. On… Read More +
It's a fact of life that end to end tests using Selenium are often flaky. Does it need to be this way? This presentation will cover some of the tactics… Read More +
One of the important tasks in testing is to make sure that things that have been working continue to work as they always have. To do that, we must repeat… Read More +
Rothman shares her lessons learned in 20 years of software testing, and suggest how you can adapt those lessons, whether you are working on a traditional or agile project. Key… Read More +
Every lifecycle affects testing, and Agile is no exception. A number of elements of the Agile methodologies can create opportunities for testing, when properly implemented. Rex discusses the key testing… Read More +
Many people make mistakes in test automation based on good intentions but flawed knowledge. We will look at some common pitfalls encountered when chartering your testing for session-based exploratory testing.… Read More +
This webinar looks at some common pitfalls encountered when chartering your testing for session-based exploratory testing. After a brief overview of the session-based test management process we will jump into… Read More +
