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The Evolution of a Software Tester: From Novice to Practitioner
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Once upon a time, Dawn Haynes was a software tester. Now she’s most often found in the classroom, helping others tackle the same day-to-day challenges that she has encountered on projects for the past thirty years. Dawn now recognizes that, although she had great instincts about testing...
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Dawn Haynes
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The Road to DevOps: Data, Environment, and Test Automation
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DevOps promotes continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous deployment. And anything that breaks this continuity is a potential bottleneck. In many organizations, testing becomes that bottleneck for one or all of the following reasons: unstable test environment, lack...
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Tanya Kravtsov
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The Selenium Grid: Run Multiple Automated Tests in Parallel
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The Selenium Grid unleashes the full power of Selenium to run multiple automated tests in parallel across multiple platforms. Brian Long demonstrates the use of an open-source framework developed at Virginia Tech to get up and running with a Selenium Grid in about an hour. He begins by...
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Brian Long
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End-to-End Automated Testing: Lessons from Zombieland
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With the proliferation of mobile devices, browsers, and IoT devices, each with its own eccentricities, performing end-to-end automated testing is starting to feel like navigating a zombie apocalypse. You need to fight off the zombies but lack the right tools. You need a set of rules to...
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Matt Barbour
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Combine Test Automation Code with Product Code: The Good, the Bad, and the Lessons Learned
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At STAREAST 2015, Chris Loder spoke about the automation framework that he and his team built at Halogen Software. At the time, they had just moved the test automation code into the development code base so that everyone in R&D was able to use it. One year later, Chris returns to...
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Chris Loder
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Build a Quality Engineering and Automation Framework
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How would you like to be in this position? Development sends the final release candidate for multiple systems with a user base of one million just a day before the production release, and you are expected to sign off on the overall software quality. Rahul Shah is responsible for providing...
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Rahul Shah
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Nature vs. Nurture: Building Great Test Teams
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When organizations expand internal test teams, hiring managers sort through piles of résumés hoping for a few gems. But scanning for coveted technical skills and relevant experience often leads to disappointment. With the proliferation of new software and the explosion of mobile devices...
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Shaun Bradshaw
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No More Exploratory Testing—Really?
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Thirty years ago when Cem Kaner coined the term “exploratory testing,” it was largely ignored for almost a decade. Since then, the idea of exploratory testing has moved through recognition, controversy, hostility, tolerance, and acceptance. Yet questions remain: Is exploratory testing an...
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Michael Bolton
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Stay Ahead of the Mobile and Web Testing Maturity Curve
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Join Danny McKeown, Paychex’s lead test enterprise automation architect, to learn how to climb the testing maturity curve and increase predictability and reuse, all while accelerating repeatable and reliable testing. Learn how Paychex iteratively built a well-defined web and mobile app...
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Danny McKeown
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Budgeting, Estimation, Planning, and #NoEstimates: They All Make Sense for Agile Testing
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Many levels of estimation are practiced in agile, including budgeting, high-level estimation, and task planning (detailed estimation). That might seem like an anathema to agile, but it is not. Mike Harris shares a case study that provides an approach that “checks the box” for standard...
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Michael Harris
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