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Three Ways to Talk When You Are Listening[article] We know listening is important—typically it’s what our stakeholders have to share that we most need to hear when eliciting and validating scope or requirements. At the same time, as business analysts, we cannot be passive flies on the wall. |
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Give Positive Feedback Before Negative? Maybe Not[article] Many people are familiar with the build-break-build method of starting with positive feedback, then the negative, and then more positive. But is that the most effective way to convey your compliments and criticism? Recent research has been done to determine the most effective, and polite method. |
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Instituting Change from the Bottom Up[article] In his Behaviorally Speaking series, Bob Aiello discusses hands-on software configuration management best practices within the context of organizational and group behavior. While conventional wisdom may say that "change comes from the top," Bob Aiello explains that change often needs to come from the bottom, that is the people doing the day-to-day work. |
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What’s Governance Got to Do with Effective Software Development?[magazine] Governance doesn't have to end in bureaucracy. Learn to maintain and refine your governance structures and you'll reap the rewards of improved decision-making processes. |
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Reaching a Shared Understanding[article] Great things can come from teams that collaborate on projects, but reaching a shared understanding isn't always an easy task. With a variety of backgrounds and opinions, team members often face difficulty in coming to agreement. We looked into the causes for these roadblocks, and how to avoid them. |
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Wearing the Architect’s Hat: Testing Real-Time Enterprise Applications[article] Simulating production conditions to test enterprise applications calls for some careful considerations. Learn how you can borrow the architect's hat without trying to fill his shoes. |
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Better Software and So Much More[magazine] A letter from the Better Software magazine editor. |
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FAQ: How Can I Know When to Stop Testing?[magazine] In this installment of FAQ, SQE Trainer Rick Craig answers one of the questions students ask him most often. |
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Software Design for Testability[presentation] Testability is a key ingredient for building robust and sustainable systems. Neglecting testability during software development increases technical debt and has severe consequences on systems that are destined to operate for many years. |
Peter Zimmerer, Siemens AG
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Automated Acceptance Testing of iOS and Android Applications[presentation] In the fragmentation game, mobile devices have now claimed first place over the browsers. Android is scoring most of the fragmentation points for the team, but iOS isn't just standing idly by. |
Jonas Larsen, LessPainful
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Simple Metrics for Starters[presentation] Measurements and metrics are a hot topic again. Theorists often rail against them as meaningless and potentially harmful. Practitioners fear them because they don’t want to be metric-ed out of a job. |
David Gilbert, Raymond James
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Design Patterns in Automated Testing: May the Power Be with You[presentation] To keep up with ever-changing systems, most test automation developers spend countless hours updating, reworking, debugging, and validating test scripts. In an agile environment, keeping up is even more difficult. |
Bindu Laxminarayan, Overstock.com
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Visualization: Seeing Test Requirements in a New Light[presentation] Change is everywhere in software-feature enhancements, regulatory requirements, technology updates, re-designs, and re-implementations. How can we ensure that testers really understand requirements, business rules, and know what’s changing? |
Vijay Atmavilas, VeriSign Inc
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Total Quality Assurance: Stepping Out of the Testing Box[presentation] In the QA/testing world we tend to focus on improving quality by altering or creating new software development models and process, and implementing tools to better manage them. |
Bryan Sebring, Georgia Department of Transportation
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Artful Testing: Learning from the Arts[presentation] At first glance, art and testing may seem like an odd couple. However, Glenford Myers combined both in his book, The Art of Software Testing-though his "art" referred only to skill and mastery. |
Zeger Hese, CTG
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