quality assurance
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Early Testing Questions for Mobile AppsA mobile app tester should take early actions to gain a better understanding of the product. What test verification and validation actions has the developer taken? Has the developer implemented static code-analysis testing? What risks exist for the product? Read on for more test-planning questions. | 
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US Citizenship and Immigration Services Adopting Agile The US Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is the Department of Homeland Security agency meant to oversee lawful immigration, is aiming to automate the integration and delivery of its software projects with a new, paperless immigration system that makes use of agile practices. |
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Mobile Testing: The First Step—or Two On many mobile projects, testing is not practiced well—or sometimes not done at all. Many testers from the desktop world are moving into mobile, and there is much they can take from traditional testing into the mobile space. Here are some ideas to get you thinking about testing mobile devices. |
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Reactions Reveal Our Expectations for Software QualityBonnie Bailey explains how our reactions can reveal what our expectations are for software quality. Quality is easier to recognize by our reactions than by what metrics, tools, or automation results tell us—no matter how much stock we put in their reliability. | 
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Five Emerging Trends in Testing and QACustomer expectations are higher than ever, so testing has become more important than ever. Quality assurance must evolve to keep up with changing software development requirements—and that involves adopting new approaches. Here are five emerging trends in testing and quality assurance for 2014. | 
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More Businesses Buying Cyber Insurance against Security RisksCyber hacking, which gained more attention when Target experienced a massive data breach, has become such a security risk that businesses are rushing to cover themselves against customers’ information being compromised in the same way they get coverage for more traditional risks—buying insurance. |
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How Bug Bounty Programs Deliver Savings and SecurityBug bounty programs abound these days and have been leveraged by many organizations hoping to reduce their security vulnerabilities. Looking more closely at these bug bounty programs, several questions emerge in helping shape an organization’s quality assurance strategy. | 
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Confirmation Test Engineering: The Next Stage of Software QA? Quality assurance, a widely recognized discipline in the software quality world, is now preparing to head into the next phase—what some call the world of confirmation or the world of test engineering. Continuous and ongoing improvements in product quality are necessary. |
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