Bug Advocacy: How to Effectively Bring Attention to Software Defects
How do testers present the right information, in the right way, and at the right time to enable decisions to be made as to the importance and urgency of addressing bugs? As testers, we exercise [...]
PLATO Testing: One Year Later
Only one year ago, PLATO Testing was launched with the vision of building a team of Aboriginal software testers across Canada backed by PQA Testing’s 20 years of expertise and experience. Since then, PLATO Testing [...]
Software Testing Conferences – An Interview with Lisa Crispin
I recently interviewed Lisa Crispin on the topic of testing conferences. Lisa is the co-author of the books “Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams” and "More Agile Testing", and a contributor [...]
PQA Testing – Christmas Families
Fundraising for the Holidays The holiday season is known as the season of giving; a time when we provide our friends, families, and loved ones with tokens of appreciation. It is also a season when [...]
Augmenting Testing in your Agile Team: A Success Story
One of the facts of life about Agile is that remote resources, when you have a mostly collocated team, generally end up feeling a little left out in the cold. Yet, with appropriately leveraged tools, [...]
When to Consider Including a User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Cycle
Throughout my years as a software tester, I undertook many different roles during User Acceptance Testing cycles on both small and large projects and participated in defining the vision of how UAT will affect these [...]