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The Essential Role of QA in Digital Transformation Many organizations are undertaking a total digital transformation in order to accelerate processes, innovations, and opportunities. But if you think you can update your development efforts without making a change to your QA program as well, your change will not be successful. QA is essential to reliability. |
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How to Build Credibility as a Tester Respect is a major player when it comes to creating and maintaining a cohesive team, and plenty of testers today feel they’re lacking the respect of their peers. With test automation sometimes being seen as some magical solution to fixing bugs, the usefulness of manual testers has come into question. |
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Is Our Innovation in Software Testing Keeping Up with Technology? The world of software testing has made many important advances in techniques and approaches, but is it keeping up with the leaps and bounds of technology's progress? Mike Sowers is an advocate for a revolutionary breakthrough in software testing, and to get there, we all need to become innovators. Here's how. |
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What to Do When Bugs Are Found—Based on When They Are Found When executing test modules, an interesting question to ask is “What needs to happen with issues that are found?” Hans Buwalda suggests making a distinction between issues found during a sprint and after the team has declared the functionality under test "done"—and describes how to proceed from there. |
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Test Automation Is Mandatory, Thanks to Agile Unlike waterfall, where people had to do their best to explain the value of automation, agile more naturally promotes that need for these tools through its rapidity and integration of testing throughout the development process. Agile assumes automation is the key ingredient of your mission strategy. |
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Do You Design Your Software Process for Flexibility or Repeatability? Manufacturing design looks a lot like software: You iterate through possible solutions, and the manufacturing itself is about repeating the making process. But building software means learning about the problem as you solve parts of it. For that, you want flexibility. How do you find your ideal process? |
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Why Is Estimating Software Testing Time So Difficult? Management loves to ask testers to estimate how long their efforts will take. But so many important factors elude measurement that it makes it difficult to predict. If you need to explain why estimation is so tough, here are nine factors that significantly influence our ability to estimate testing time. |
