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Virtual Reality: A Game-Changing Technology for Sports You may think that virtual reality (VR) was created to be primarily used for entertainment, but its use across a number of disciplines is steadily on the rise. Bharathan Venkateswaran highlights the recent use of VR in sports—for coaching and training, advertising, and the viewing experience. |
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Test Automation Gets No Respect The conventional approach to software automation for quality creates a losing situation for the people doing the work. When tests are reliable or take more time than first estimated, management and the rest of the team lose confidence. How can you produce consistently quick, quality information? |
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The Word “Automation” Has Led Us Astray The misunderstanding that automation for software quality is just doing what humans do (i.e., manual testing), but faster and more often, causes business risk. Unless you’re very clear, the quality measure is incomplete. The word automation distracts from the real value: measuring quality. |
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Using Technology to Make Better Educational Assessments Technology's usefulness for assessment in schools today is not limited to Scantron machines. There are many powerful (and free) tools available. How can we shift to an environment in which technology is used in support of high-quality assessments that are meaningful for both teachers and students? |
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Conference Highlights: UX Design, Stage Presence, and DevOps The Agile Development, Better Software & DevOps Conference West in June featured more than a hundred networking and learning opportunities and three tracks to choose from. Here, we recap three of the popular presentations, about lean UX, presentation skills, and how DevOps can benefit everyone. |
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4 Frequent Feedback-Gathering Flaws If organizations really want customer feedback, why do they make it so difficult for customers to provide that feedback? Naomi Karten gives four examples from her own experience that suggest some things to keep in mind when gathering feedback from your customers. |
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Testing Nonfunctional Requirements in an Agile Lifecycle As organizations embrace agile, requirements become a challenge because they must be considered and validated in each (short) sprint. Ideally, nonfunctional requirements should be a continuous focus throughout the project. Here are some ways to better address NFRs in an agile development lifecycle. |
