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The Ethical Responsibility of Defect Severity Classification

When dealing with defect classification, it's important to not blindly adhere to the criteria without consideration for real business or human implications. If your software does safety-critical work, do the defect levels reflect that? Or could something go live with potentially disastrous consequences?

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Payson Hall
How to Tell if People Think You Talk Too Much

If you talk too much, you may not realize how much you annoy people. Of course, you also may not realize how much of the conversation you're actually dominating. Naomi Karten gives some social cues to be aware of and some self-examination practices so you can tell if you've unknowingly been gabbing too much.

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Naomi Karten
How Do We Sell the “Test Early” Principle?

Many companies are striving to test earlier. But goals and principles are always easier to articulate than they are to implement. Often, this is less of a technical issue and much more an organizational, change management challenge. Michael Sowers talks about the steps to take to make things happen.

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Michael Sowers
The Benefits of Continuously Optimizing Your Regression Test Suite

In any project, for a quality product or application rollout, regression testing plays a key role. The challenge comes with regularly examining your regression suite and making sure it is running optimally. The optimization process should be implemented with every major release to ensure efficient testing.

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Sunil Sehgal
How the Internet of Things Impacts Testing and UX

The Internet of Things provides new, exciting possibilities for everyone involved, but with these new possibilities come just as many challenges. We have to shift our thinking before we can adapt to the upcoming connected world.

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Josiah Renaudin
Cyber Threat Predictions for 2016 and Privacy Protection Tips

The growing proliferation of digital dust is one of the key findings from the 2016 Emerging Cyber Threats Report issued annually by the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and Research Institute.

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Pamela Rentz