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Practical Strategies for Tackling the Tasks You Dread Not everything we do at work is enjoyable. We can try reframing the more irksome duties in terms of means to an end, but sometimes, even with a mindset adjustment, there are still jobs we dread—and that can make them difficult to finish effectively. Here are some tips for tackling your most tiresome tasks. |
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The Importance of an Integrated Test Automation Plan Adopting automation tools can be a big decision. When it comes to test automation, it’s critical to incorporate an integrated test automation plan instead of piling together a mishmash of unrelated tools with the hope to create some taped together mess of a plan. |
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The Test Automation Design Paradox Testing and automation have various paradoxes that are interesting to look at for insight into the challenges and limitations of our profession. Hans Buwalda describes these paradoxes and offers methods to bring about cooperation in teams, helping them achieve great automation results together. |
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The Basis of Test-Driven Development: Writing Effective Test Cases Too often, test-driven development still initially focuses on coding aspects, not testing. The first step in a test-driven approach has to be writing effective tests. It's not enough to simply ensure good coverage; effective tests should also confirm that decisions made in the code work correctly. |
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How to Look and Sound Confident—Even When You’re Not When you look and sound confident, it communicates competence. The opposite is also true: When your voice wavers, you slouch, and you avoid eye contact, you come off as unconfident, and people can lose faith in your abilities. But often, the easiest way to appear confident is to fake it 'til you make it. |
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STAREAST Receives Glowing Reviews from This Year’s Attendees TechWell pours hundreds of hours into STAREAST each year, and for the most recent conference, we saw a medley of interesting articles appear afterward written by happy attendees and vendors who represented their companies at the Orlando-based event. |
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Think Agile to Work Efficiently and Effectively Of course it's important to work efficiently, without wasting time, money, or energy. But working effectively is just as important. Agile cycles between creating, testing, and getting feedback, allowing us to work in small chunks and make sure what we're producing has the most value. That's effective. |
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Hurricane Season 2016: Luna and Surge Are Ready The 2016 hurricane season is upon us and NOAA, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has more than tripled computing forecasting capacity thanks to two new Cray supercomputers the agency calls “Luna” and “Surge”. |
