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Billion Dollar Bugs: When and How to Test a Spreadsheet[presentation]
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The world has become increasingly dependent on computer-based models to make informed decisions. These models may be financial or engineering based and often are built with spreadsheets... |
Gregory Pope, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
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Why Classic Software Testing Doesn’t Work Anymore[presentation]
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The classic software testing team is becoming increasingly obsolete. Traditional processes and tools just don’t meet today’s testing challenges. With the introduction of methodologies... |
Regg Struyk, Polarion Software
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Why Software Drives Us Crazy[presentation]
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Some people insist that machines will replace humans in many different ways; others disagree, but without explaining why. You could say a smartphone app replaces an admin assistant... |
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
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Balancing Exploratory and Automated Testing in Agile[presentation]
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Transitioning to agile development isn't any easier for the test team than it is for the development team. New features and fixes appear daily, priorities change fluidly as customer... |
Matthew Attaway, Perforce Software
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Rapid and Intelligent Test Engineering[presentation]
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Today’s IT plans tend to be defined as much by constraints as by requirements. Conventionally, the testing phase starts after the design and build phase. In today’s competitive and... |
Mathi Natarajan, Cognizant and Sreeram Gopalakrishnan, Cognizant
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Are Your Test Reports a Death Sentence?[presentation]
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Good software testers often interact more with people than with software, especially when reporting on the results of testing. Yet our industry provides little training or guidance on... |
Nancy Kelln, FGL Sports, Ltd.
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Cyber Security Test Warriors: Where Might You Take Your Career?[article] Do you know the latest in test attacks and testing techniques to become a cyber security test warrior? Becoming one is probably not for everyone, but the need is real, continues to grow, and offers a career opportunity for those brave enough to take the challenge. |
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Automation in Sports Video Game Testing: An Interview with Fazeel Gareeboo[interview]
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In video game development, the pressure is on to add more features to sell more games. Getting buy-in to automate testing can be a challenge. Fazeel discusses the sports video game development environment and how to convince product owners to spend precious resources on automated testing. |
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How DevOps Drives the Agile ALM[magazine] One of the most effective approaches to DevOps involves moving the automation of the application build, package, and deployment upstream to the beginning stages of the software development lifecycle—an industry best practice long before DevOps became as popular as it is today. |
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Managing Component Dependencies[article] Bob Aiello explains that software engineers and architects do an amazing job designing a system’s architecture that fully represents all of the parts of the system that are created during the development lifecycle. However, one of the biggest challenges is understanding how each part of the system depends upon the others. |
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Technology Trends of the Future: An Interview with Hung Nguyen[interview] Hung Nguyen, the CEO, president, and founder of LogiGear, sat down with our very own Cameron Philipp-Edmonds to discuss how far technology has come in the last twenty years, where it might end up twenty years from now, and what role testing plays in it all. |
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QA Management: All Bark and No Bite?[article] Mike Talks shares with us the unlikely story of how his pet German Shepherd inadvertently became his team's QA manager. Talks explains how his German Shepherd was able to gather people together and have them talk to each other, similiar to what a QA manager does—keeping people on task, handing out assignments, and following up with team members. |
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Keyword-Driven Test Automation: An Interview with Hans Buwalda[interview]
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Hans Buwalda's experience covers being a developer, manager, and principal consultant for companies and organizations worldwide. In this interview, Hans talks about using keywords effectively, tests that have too many details, and the changing testing industry. |
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A Real Sprint in the Life of a ScrumMaster[magazine] You read so many books and articles that present how perfectly a Scrum project goes; yet in practice, that is rarely the case. Natalie shares ten lessons that she learned the hard way when she started out as a ScrumMaster. Special attention is given to ways you can avoid those same mistakes. |
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Managing Servers: With Agents and Without [article] Andrew Phillips details the challenges and advantages of two specific approaches to automating server management: agentless and agent-based automation. Agent-based automation refers to when a small piece of software—called an agent, service, or daemon—is installed on each target server, whereas agentless management automation software interacts with the remote-control functionality built into each host-operating system to perform the administrative tasks. |
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