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 [...]
Software Testing Guiding Principles
All effective test teams typically have well-defined processes, appropriate tools, and resources with a variety of skills. However, teams cannot be successful if they place 100% dependency on the documented processes, as doing so leads [...]
It Is Never Too Late to Learn
A yvrTesting Blog In collaboration with EuroSTAR’s TeamSTAR Competition 2016, yvrTesting was excited to hold its September Meetup after a 2-month long summer break. Inspired by the theme “Learning to Test, Testing to Learn”, the [...]
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 [...]