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 [...]
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 [...]