Tending to Your Tester Garden: Growing a Great Test Team
Creating a great test team is a lot like gardening, you need to find the right seeds and make sure to plant them in an environment where they will germinate, grow and thrive. But what [...]
We Are Not The Quality Police
I started my testing career as part of a user group that did analysis, technical writing, training and testing in the Systems Department of an insurance company at a time when having nontechnical people involved [...]
Avoiding Common Test Automation Pitfalls
In an age where many organizations are under pressure to accelerate their software delivery to customers, test automation is becoming a necessity. There are many reasons why it’s advantageous to implement a test automation solution [...]
Creating Success in a Distributed Agile Team
Agile development methodologies focus on highly collaborative team environments that are continuously planning, developing, testing, integrating and delivering functional software. In such environments, constant feedback and communication are critical and there are small margins for [...]
More Than A Spell Checker
When people ask me what I do at PLATO, I always pause before I answer. Not because I do not know what I do, but because I am never quite sure how to tell people [...]
PQA Head Office Moves to a New Location
Professional Quality Assurance Ltd. (PQA) is excited to announce the relocation of our head office and delivery centre in Fredericton, NB. As of May 17, PQA has officially moved from our old location at 730 [...]