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Rethinking Our Job as Software Testers: We Should Try to Test as Little as Possible DevOps transforms testing from finding all bugs to prioritizing critical ones. Risk assessment helps testers focus on high-impact areas. Testing can be pre-release (critical issues), post-release (resolvable issues), or out-of-scope (low-impact). Testing should align with business goals and user stories. Data science helps measure and improve software quality. |
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Embracing Quality: The Integral Role of Software Testing in Development Software testing is a critical phase in software development that ensures high-quality, reliable software. It involves a comprehensive range of activities to evaluate every aspect of a software product, from unit testing to continuous testing. By identifying and addressing issues early on, software testing helps to deliver software that meets user expectations and functions seamlessly. This not only benefits users but also fosters innovation and trust in technology. |
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Don’t Let Load Testing Lead You Astray While traditional, "closed system" models might seem familiar, they miss the unpredictable nature of real user arrivals. This article highlights how open system models, which mimic real-world user behavior, expose performance bottlenecks at high load that closed models can't catch. Remember, arrival rates, not virtual user counts, are the key to unlocking accurate load testing results. |
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Real-Time Data Streaming Using Kafka Kafka testing emerges as a linchpin in the construction of robust, reliable data streaming applications. Whether you’re scrutinizing producers, consumers, or the entire data conduit, the bedrock of a well-structured testing strategy proves instrumental in ensuring the optimal performance of your Kafka-driven system in production. |
Interviews
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Whole Team Quality: A Conversation with Melissa Benua
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Melissa Benua, director of engineering at mParticle, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about the importance of whole team quality, how to get started using the test pyramid, and how developers can start writing testable code. |
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Sponsored Interview: DevOps Trends in Enterprise Mobility
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Dan McFall, president and CEO at Mobile Labs, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about trends in enterprise mobility, the role DevOps and the cloud play in mobile application testing, and the transition to working from home. |
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From NPR to AI: An Interview with Davar Ardalan Davar Ardalan, founder and storyteller-in-chief of IVOW, talks about how her experience working at NPR helped her launch an AI and storytelling startup. She also discusses how testers, QA analysts, and software engineers are on the front lines of working with users and understanding user engagement, and she explains the importance of finding ways to collaborate with them. |
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Data Visualization in Test Automation: A Conversation with Greg Paskal
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Greg Paskal, test automation lead at Ramsey Solutions, talks about data lakes and how to effectively use data visualization. Done well, data visualization should help practitioners, managers, and stakeholders easily consume, understand, and act on the information the visual displays. |
Better Software Magazine Articles
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QA Is More Than Being a Tester QA testers often take on more of a role than just testing software code. When the team needs help, QA should lend a hand in assisting with business analysis, customer communication, user experience, and user advocacy. |
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Achieving Continuous Improvement and Innovation in Software There is tremendous pressure on software development teams to deliver software faster, better, and cheaper. Quality engineering with a focus on innovation is the answer |
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The Power of Thinking Upside Down Software developers can become bogged down trying to keep up with agile process and procedures. Get better results by rethinking your approach to balancing focus, agility, management, and testing. |
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Alternate Testing Models: A Tale of Veggies and Precious Gems As if working at Lego isn’t fun enough, Sherri Sobanski delights in finding new ways to test. Faced with a situation requiring a complete product redesign, she shares the route her team took to overhaul testing. |
Conference Presentations
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Taming Your Dragon: From No QA to Fully Integrated QA
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Many companies struggle with their QA processes and think of them as bottlenecks to their releases. Join Priyanka on her journey of transforming QA and improving its reputation and reliability. |
Priyanka Halder
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3 Steps to QA Success from a VP of Quality Assurance
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Are you a leader with a quality problem? Every organization struggles with quality at some point in their product lifecycle. Knowing what to measure and how to build a culture of quality with specific and actionable methods is key. |
Karen Holliday
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Enabling Enterprise Quality
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Too often quality is identified as solely owned by the quality assurance team. By taking a broader approach to roles, tools, and ideology, you can restructure your vision of how to provide rapid, frequent releases that empower all delivery team members. |
Mike Cullen
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Scaling Quality through Community Leadership
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Modern software development organizations often build teams around features. Unfortunately, these teams tend to become siloed, building tools and processes without being aware of how other teams have solved the same problems. |
Philip Daye
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