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From Jeff Bezos—A Valuable Lesson on Competition Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently addressed a group of children at an elementary school. There was was one particularly interesting sound bite: "Who succeeds at Amazon? Explorers and pioneers. Who fails? Those who focus on killing our competitors." Here's why you shouldn't obsess over competition. |
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Testing Mobile Apps? Consider These Challenges and Solutions The scope and need for mobile app testing are only going to increase. What does this mean for testers who have traditionally tested web applications? Mobile application testing is not necessarily new, but the increasing set of challenges is new. Read on to see what you should be looking for. |
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Three Smart New Year’s Resolutions for a Testing Organization When making New Year's resolutions for his testing organization, the author stumbled on three interesting posts that provided additional insight into the overall thought process on where the software testing discipline is heading. These resolutions may help align your work with industry demands. |
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Expecting One Giant? Bring Five Stones Similar to the story of David and Goliath, software developers and testers hunt giants too—bugs, that is. Like David, they should believe that where there is one giant, there are probably five nearby, and they should hope to find each one. |
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Feature Trimming: What Developers and Testers Need to Keep in Mind A new trend in development is feature trimming, with a renewed focus on building simple products with a core set of features. Just as feature additions need to be tested thoroughly, feature removals also need to be tested. Read on for ideas about what developers and testers should keep in mind. |
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Will We See the Debut of Dual OS Mobile Phones This Year? Microsoft is exploring possibilities of partnering with Android handset makers to build devices that boot up with two mobile operating systems, giving users the option at run time to choose which one they want. This move will pose new opportunities for mobile software engineers and for testers. |