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When it comes to a successful QA organization, great QA teams STILL start with great people. But building great teams (and keeping them together) is tough, given how hot the market is for the best QA talent! Turnover in IT is rampant, and with dozens of QA roles available to a strong professional, competition for […]

Functional test automation is a wonderful way to frequently and expeditiously execute regression testing. However, the test scripts that we write are limited to the few assertions we’ve considered. Many times, these assertions only cover the tip of the iceberg and account for a small fraction of what a human being would have subconsciously verified. […]

What can we learn from drones that we can apply to our testing practices to help in DevOps cultures? Join Paul Merrill for a fun-filled flight into the world of DevOps and Continuous Testing. Learn the keys to Test Automation, a critical component of DevOps. Learn principles of test automation through team challenges with drones […]

“No ducking way!” This was the reaction from the team when I asked if we could accelerate the system test schedule and release early. Thank goodness for auto-correct. We eventually did reduce the test schedule; we reduced it in half. And, we did it in a way that led to better quality delivered to our […]

About 5 years ago everyone was talking about “Mobile First” and giving the user a mobile experience using mobile web, native and hybrid applications. Now, the new buzzword is AI. There are AI based applications everywhere and it has only made the job of testing them more complex. There are numerous software testing approaches to […]

STP Radio Episode Posted 2/21/20 Listen to “Nancy Kelln on Risk-Based Test Reporting and Robots” Testers understand the value that Exploratory Testing (ET) provides, even if it isn’t a formalized part of the project, testers do some degree of ET. However, I often hear that teams struggle to implement ET. In this hands-on workshop we […]

Test plans have a bad reputation. There’s no beating around the bush. And perhaps they are deserving of a bad reputation. But software development has changed. We are Agile now! Test plans need to change as well. Do we need them at all? Perhaps not. If you do need a test plan, it needs to […]

Imagine if you could add more time to your delivery schedule, where would you spend it? Although we can’t add more hours to our day, we can find time by discovering inefficiencies in our current SDLC management approach. Many of us feel like there is never enough time to complete everything we wanted in a […]