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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Distributed Teams – An Interview with Janet Gregory
I recently interviewed Janet Gregory on the topic of distributed teams. Janet is the founder of DragonFire Inc., an agile quality process consultancy and training [...]
Mobile Application Testing – It’s Not All About the Devices
When designing our mobile application testing strategy, it is important to consider that: it is not all about the devices – it IS about all [...]
Make Testing Your Competitive Advantage
At first glance, testing might only look like a cost, but testing can actually help you reduce risk, get your product to market faster and [...]