What is Quality To a QA Engineer?
We talk a lot about the importance of quality products. But what does the word ”quality“ really mean? Is it a subjective or objective trait? And how can anyone strive to achieve high quality without...
View ArticleStop the Line – Build Quality In with Incremental Compilation
This three-part series written by Peter Antman takes a journey through the evolution of quality assurance, takes a look at the current state of “quality” in the software industry and explains what we...
View ArticleWhat is Quality and Why it Matters
At SmartBear, we talk a lot about the importance of quality products. But what does the word “quality” really mean? Is it a subjective trait? And how can anyone strive to achieve high quality without...
View ArticleThe History of Quality Assurance
When talking about software quality assurance, it is beneficial to talk about the history of quality assurance and how we have come to use certain methodologies, such as Agile and Waterfall, because,...
View ArticleSetting Up Your Test Management Workstation in QAComplete
A challenging part of software development is being able to manage your teams goals and data in an organized manner. Test management is the process of managing all your tests for any given project....
View ArticleMaintaining Quality Assurance in an Era of Hyper-Development
Release cycles are getting shorter, from months to weeks to days and even hours, allowing companies to be more competitive than ever – or at least to think they are. To a large extent, the adoption of...
View ArticleRelease Management in QAComplete
Once you have your list of user stories converted to your product requirements, it is time to begin the release management process. At this point, the stakeholders have agreed on the priorities of...
View ArticleRemember when Software Testing was Considered an Artform?
Over the last few months I’ve had the opportunity to attend a number of extremely interesting and mind-expanding conferences focusing on emerging (and somewhat disruptive) technologies and companies:...
View ArticleWhy Not Train Testers Early with Software Testing Degrees?
Let’s play a game. Imagine that you’re development manager and you have a choice between the following two candidates: Candidate #1: Graduated from M.I.T. with a Computer Science degree. For my senior...
View ArticleSetting Up a Model for Success: What Should New Testers Know?
Over the past couple of years, I have had the pleasure of helping develop education initiatives and material for a program called SummerQAmp. SumerQAmp is designed to help students between the ages of...
View ArticleEmpower Developers to Build Quality In
Peter Antman, one of the presenters at MeetUI 2013, had a great presentation about how you can better integrate quality assurance into your development processes. Using techniques from Toyota’s Lean...
View ArticleUsing Tools or Being Tools?
On May 23 we had our first SoapUI user conference, MeetUI, at our office in Stockholm, Sweden. Apart from some great sessions from our speakers, we also had a fishbowl-type panel discussion. In this...
View ArticleYour Software Flunked Testing. Now What?
The good news is your shiny new software is back from testing. The bad news is that it flunked. Maybe the QA department determined that the software is too slow, maybe it uses too many resources, maybe...
View ArticleIngrained Biases in Software Testing That Work Against You
“Software testing is loaded with unchallenged ideas from the last 20 or so years, and changing its perception works against ingrained bias and prejudice.” I recently came across this line in a blog...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn from Diana Nyad’s Support Team?
“I’m more of a human spirit story than a sports story.” ~Diana Nyad during her interview with CBS this morning. Diana Nyad’s unbelievable, arduous, and triumphant 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida at...
View ArticleUnited Airlines Hands Out Free Tickets Due to Software Bug
United Airlines was handing out free tickets plus fees through their website for 15 minutes yesterday morning. With a security fee, those lucky enough to get to the free tickets were charged between...
View ArticleRockstar Games – After the Love Has Gone for PC Gamers
Let the uproar amongst soccer moms and our politically correct mass media outlets begin! A new full-fledged GTA (Grand Theft Auto) has been released into the wild and with it comes the media circus...
View ArticleRegulated Industries and Software Testing
How often do testers truly consider the repercussions of missing an important defect or not following a strict code of professionalism? Of course, we want to find important defects and help developers...
View ArticleStarWest Day 1: Team Culture and Test Automation
It was a great, fun-packed day at StarWest 2013. There was a lot to take away and a lot to argue about, which is always my favorite part of getting together with the rest of the testing community. My...
View ArticleExploring the Internet of Things
No story left a bigger impression on me when I was a child than an apocalyptic nightmare from Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles, first published in 1950, titled “There Will Come Soft Rains.” The...
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