An Inside Look at a 2-month Internship for PLATO Testing Students
Josh Augustine and Charla Joseph reflect on their internship with Medavie Blue Cross The first day, our nerves were shot. We had never had an internship, nor had we worked at a company the size [...]
#CAST2016
The 2016 Conference of the Association for Software Testing (CAST 2016) took place in the beautiful city of Vancouver, British Columbia. PQA was a key sponsor of the event and our Co-CEO, Christin Wiedemann, was [...]
Testing COTS Systems? Make Evaluation Count
Over the years, I have been involved in a number of projects testing COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) systems across a range of industries. Sometimes the project was with the vendor and sometimes with the customer. When it [...]
Learning To Sell Software Testing Services
My name is Randy Wetmore and I have been with PQA for almost 5 years. In my role, I do a lot of writing but, oddly enough, this is the first time I have written [...]
New Project? Shift-Left to Start Right!
Project management is continually challenged with delivering the “right” solution, on-time and on-budget, with high quality. In the face of typical project constraints and changing priorities, quality is sometimes sacrificed towards the end of the [...]
By Executive Order – The Best Test Automation Solution
Test automation is an investment. Like any investment, you expect a future return. As stated in "Test Automation – Building Your Business Case", the following are some of the benefits typically expected from investing in [...]