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CA Technologies Finds Success Promoting Continuous Delivery as STARWEST Premier Sponsor

For CA Technologies, the premier sponsor at this year’s STARWEST, the goal of the show was to promote continuous delivery and drive continuous testing. But the testing information, discussions of industry trends, and personal connections gathered were what made CA’s presence invaluable.

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Josiah Renaudin
Measuring tape Which Test Metrics Are Useful in Agile Projects?

Just as our measurement and metrics capabilities improve as our technology and knowledge evolve, we must also refine and adapt our software quality and testing measures as we embrace an agile culture. Our measurement and metrics strategy should shift to lower levels of the application or system under test.

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Michael Sowers
data management The Challenges of Incorporating Robust Test Data Management

We can no longer be myopic when it comes to testing, as there’s a wide group of needs to be addressed on any given project. For a project to succeed, testers must build out robust test data management capabilities in response to growing application demand.

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Josiah Renaudin
4 Ways to Better Test Modern Software

Even if automation, artificial intelligence, and everything else that’s been introduced within the software industry has changed how we test (and the tester’s role), that doesn’t mean testing’s not worth your time. In fact, with current customer expectations, it might be more important than ever.

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Josiah Renaudin
artificial intelligence Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on the Future of Testing

Agile has fundamentally changed the way we talk about testing. However, something that isn’t discussed as often, yet might be just as critical to the future direction of the industry, is artificial intelligence. In the world of testing, it’s easy to see how AI can be exceptionally useful.

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Josiah Renaudin
tester dream Virtualization—A Tester's Dream?

For testers, virtual machines can be a game changer. To what degree the game really changes depends largely on how an organization decides to work with virtual machines and how active the testers themselves are in recognizing and leveraging virtual machines’ possibilities.

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Hans Buwalda
Pushing System Performance with Stress Testing

In performance testing, the term “stress” can have several possible meanings and can represent several different types of stress. Dale Perry details some common methods of stress testing when testing system performance. The key is knowing which stress tests make sense in your situation.

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Dale Perry
automation Test Automation and When Enough Is Enough

There are endless reasons why your test team might need to make use of automation. However, even if we’re at a point where most people agree you need some sort of test automation to compete in today’s agile landscape, using automation indiscriminately leads to more headaches than benefits.

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Josiah Renaudin