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Nonfunctional requirements checklist Working with Nonfunctional Requirements

Nonfunctional requirements describe aspects of the system that do not map onto a single piece of functionality. Essentially, they're constraints you need to operate within. Allan Kelly details how running performance tests regularly can be the key to nonfunctional requirements, as well as how much value these constraints produce.
Allan Kelly's picture Allan Kelly
September 30, 2015
Using Crowd Testing for a Game Engine
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Testing a PC-based game poses interesting challenges. With different OS platforms and many different GPUs, the number of combinations to test grows quickly. The large number of hardware configurations used by the players of EVE Online makes it impossible to test them all. This can lead...
Björgvin Reynisson, CCP Games
Improve Testing with a Zone Defense
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At one time or another, every tester hears the dreaded question, “Why didn’t you guys catch these bugs?” We all have some standard responses, and they are most likely true). But what can we learn about our testing when we look beyond the easy answers? Pamela Gillaspie proposes that the...
Pamela Gillaspie, TestPlant
Testing Applications—For the Cloud and in the Cloud
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As organizations adopt a DevOps approach to software development, they work to shorten test cycles, begin testing earlier, and test continuously. However, one challenge still remains―the unavailability of complete and realistic production-like test environments. Technologies like service...
Allan Wagner, IBM
Quality Index: A Composite Metric for the Voice of Testing
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It is quite possible that you are spending a considerable amount of your time as a QA manager making sense of the multitude of metrics reported by your teams, connecting the facts, understanding the underlying reality, and articulating it to your peers and leadership. Still, others in the...
Nirav Patel, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and Sutharson Veeravalli, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Things That Really Matter in Testing—Today and Tomorrow
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After a twenty-year career at Microsoft, Bj Rollison took some time to reflect on the software testing profession. Bj has seen many positive changes in our field through the years. Unfortunately, he also has seen too many of us still mired in trends and topics that make good fodder for...
Bj Rollison
DevOps: Find Solutions, Not More Defects
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The promise of DevOps is that we can push new ideas out to market faster while avoiding delivering serious defects into production. Andreas Grabner explains that testers are no longer measured by the number of defect reports they enter, nor are developers measured by the lines of code they...
Andreas Grabner, Dynatrace
Continuous Test Improvement in a Rapidly Changing World
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Classical test process improvement models no longer fit in organizations adopting the newest development approaches. Instead, a more flexible approach is required today. Solutions like SOA, virtualization, web technology, cloud computing, mobile, and the application of social media...
Martin Pol, Polteq Testing Services BV
Testing the Internet of Everything
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Beyond the publicity and hype about the Internet of Things (IoT), a new term is emerging—the Internet of Everything (IoE). What are people talking about? Should you be interested? What does it mean to testers and development? Paul Gerrard shares his perspective on the scale, variety...
Paul Gerrard
The Agile Testing Survival Guide
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As innovative businesses reduce their time-to-market and shorten release cycles, the need for continuous delivery methods becomes inevitable. Testers are constantly asked to rapidly and reliably deliver comprehensive test results in ever-decreasing or continuous cycles. Meanwhile, testing...
Ingo Philipp, Tricentis

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