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STAREast Logo Testing at Startup Companies: What, When, Where, and How
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Startups are becoming increasingly prolific—technology startups even more so. CEOs are recognizing the need for quality. Their users are their growth, and if they can't retain users, their growth slows or stops. So quality matters. How do you convince the rest of the company that test...
Alice Till-Carty
STAREast Logo Use Combinatorial Testing for Mobile Device Fragmentation
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A common problem in mobile systems testing is the number of hardware, operational, and software configurations that need to be tested. For example, the so-called Android fragmentation problem might lead a test team to test hundreds of device and software configurations, yielding thousands...
Jon Hagar
STAREast Logo From Zero to Hero in 205 Days!
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As test managers, we face challenging situations that require us to draw on our past experiences, principles, and good practices in order to have any chance at all for success.  Michael Wasielczyk faced this challenge immediately after joining T. Rowe Price. He started his new job...
Michael Wasielczyk
STAREast Logo Testing Lessons from the Land of Make Believe
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Rob Sabourin has discovered testing lessons in Sesame Street, the Simpsons, the Looney Tunes gang, the Great Detectives, Dr. Seuss, and many other unlikely places, but this year he journeys to the Land of Make Believe. Rob's grandchildren Jane and Suzy draw him into the Land of Make Believe.
Rob Sabourin
STAREast Logo Fostering Long-Term Test Automation Success
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In today’s environment of plummeting software delivery cycle times, test automation becomes a more critical and strategic necessity.  How can we possibly keep up with software delivery's explosive pace while retaining satisfactory test coverage?  How do we keep the reins on costs...
Carl Nagle
STAREast Logo Telling Our Testing Stories
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As software practitioners focus on technology issues, we often find that our messages to management and the business are either not heard or are misinterpreted. And sometimes we do not hear the messages that they need us to hear. Isabel Evans examines our natural ability to tell stories...
Isabel Evans
STAREast Logo Continuous Integration: A New Way of Life
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Continuous integration is the new buzzword in software development because it opens up opportunities well beyond making sure all your team's code compiles cleanly. What if this pipeline could improve everything from the quality of code reviews, to how you monitor your product “in the wild,”
Melissa Benua
STAREast Logo Testing in the New World of Off-the-Shelf Software
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Testing an off-the-shelf, sometimes called COTS, system? Often, project managers and stakeholders mistakenly believe that one benefit of purchasing software is that there is little, if any, testing required. This could not be further from the truth. Testing COTS software requires a...
Gerie Owen and Peter Varhol
STAREast Logo Quality Metrics: The Dirty Word in the Room
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Is tracking metrics beneficial? What does it accomplish? How and what should be tracked with regards to software quality? Management wants software metrics to understand what the individual and/or teams are accomplishing and how they are doing with regards to management's expectations.
Annette Ash
STAREast Logo Don’t Be Another Statistic! Develop a Long-Term Test Automation Strategy
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Choosing the appropriate tool and building the right framework are typically thought of as the main challenges to successful test automation. However, even after careful tool selection and advanced automation framework construction, many find long-term success elusive. Lee Barnes discusses...
Lee Barnes

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