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Compromises on Quality

Far too often I hear managers say, “Just get it out the door.” I understand the perspective. We work in a world of constraints and the business needs to...

0 replies - 1734 views - 03/13/13 by David Bernstein in Articles

The Real Enemy: Testers That Can't Program & Programmers That Can't Test

Lior Friedman asked whether a tester should know how to program or become obsolete. Lanette Creamer said the same fate awaits programmers who can’t test....

0 replies - 1825 views - 03/12/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles

Standardizing Deployments? Start with Production and Work Backwards

We’re often asked where to start when organizations want to standardize their deployment processes across environments. Starting with the deployment to...

1 replies - 4040 views - 10/25/12 by Eric Minick in Articles

Developers – Stop Doing Your QA’s Job

We’ve all been there — it’s Friday night, 11:00 p.m., and the system you just deployed doesn’t work. There's a bug. Your manager just hung up. You...

0 replies - 5309 views - 07/19/12 by Jeremy Hess in Articles

Where Development Meets QA

In the software world, development and QA are often organised into two separate teams. Developers are responsible for writing the code, which...

0 replies - 4745 views - 06/30/12 by Ben Wootton in Articles

Defensive Programming vs. Batshit Crazy Paranoid Programming

Hey, let’s be careful out there.--Sergeant Esterhaus, daily briefing to the force of Hill Street BluesWhen developers run into an unexpected bug and...

3 replies - 10689 views - 03/19/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

New challenges from DevOps: development cycle for your infrastructure

One of the main ideas behind DevOps adoption is the concept of  “infrastructure as code”. Tools like Puppet or Chef allow you to programmatically define...

0 replies - 3274 views - 01/24/12 by Carlos Sanchez in Articles

2011: The State of Software Security and Quality

It’s the end of the year. Time to look back on what you’ve done, what you’ve learned, your successes and mistakes, and what you learned from them. I...

1 replies - 6396 views - 01/06/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

How *NOT* to win the hearts of developers, part 2

So, this next one, for me, points out something that I felt was a difficulty in being a tester with development experience.  See part one here.I don't...

5 replies - 7267 views - 12/01/11 by Dawn Cannan in Articles

The 5 whys: Another attempt

Towards the end of the week before last and the beginning of last week we’d been having quite a few problems with our QA environment to the point where...

2 replies - 2682 views - 11/14/11 by Mark Needham in Articles

QA&TEST 2011 Conference

Cirilo Wortel recently attended the QA&TEST Conference which featured a strong list of speakers and a wide variety of talks on test automation, user...

1 replies - 3905 views - 11/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Is it ok to have technical debt?

Technical debt and design debt are synonymous, neologistic metaphors referring to the eventual consequences of slapdash software architecture and hasty...

1 replies - 4328 views - 10/28/11 by Dror Helper in Articles

What do you mean, don't submit bugs?

Of all of my "aha!" moments in transitioning from a waterfall-style QA person to an agile tester, the one I am about to talk about is...

20 replies - 9237 views - 09/29/11 by Dawn Cannan in News

Automated UI Testing - Part 1 - WatiN

A few months back I discovered a tool called WatiN. This is based on WatiR and is a web application testing tool for Dot Net developers. After doing a few...

3 replies - 5337 views - 07/26/11 by Paul Stack in News

Videos: State vs. Interaction Testing & Learning to Love Your Manual Testers

At the 2010 Norwegian Developer's Conference, Hadi Hariri explained state and interaction testing so that developers could use both to their full advantage...

0 replies - 8442 views - 05/26/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles