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5 Tips for Balancing Manual and Automated Software Testing Both manual and automated testing are usually necessary to deliver a quality product. We must balance our manual and automated testing activities to achieve both the deployment speed and software quality our customers demand. While there is no one answer for how to do this, here are five tips that can be helpful. |
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How You Can Help the Human Animals in Your Group Thrive On our teams, we deal with many individuals with diverse perspectives. It's not always easy, but we are animals, and many animals live and work—and are only able to survive—in teams. You can look to how animals interact with and react to each other to see how we, as human animals, can not just survive, but thrive. |
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Transforming Your QA and Test Team Testing professionals are essential to the success of technology projects. Delivering better, faster, and at a lower cost is not solely done with automation and development teams—testing professionals are here to stay and grow. But we have to fight for our place, and that means evolving with industry requirements. |
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Performance Testing for Our Modern, DevOps World As DevOps-based methodologies are more broadly adopted, we'll increasingly move to a continuous testing model. Containerized environments and microservices make it easier to optimize your application by validating changes to the environment or system configuration, allowing you to deliver better products faster. |
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How to Deal with a Manipulative Coworker Manipulation in the workplace can take many forms. It often manifests as one person turning coworkers against each other, spreading rumors, or making people feel insecure—either for the person's own benefit or just for entertainment. If you witness this destructive behavior, there are things you can do to stop it. |
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Technical Debt, Product Value, and Risk Management Reports that the Equifax breach took advantage of a known issue in Apache Struts set the stage for a conversation about technical debt, product value, and risk management. Steve Berczuk shares his thoughts on how to help prioritize technical work in a way that balances short and long term value. |
