quality assurance
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How Early Testing Can Build a Path to Success for StartupsSince startup investors are now wanting to see a physical product before deciding on funding, testing is becoming a more integral part of the startup process. Testing strategies can help to validate the business idea and verify a prototype, which will ultimately reassure potential investors. | 
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The Rise in Vlogging—Why Testers Should Care Vlogging is increasingly catching the software development industry's attention, and the scope for growth is still large. Rajini Padmanaban looks at the areas that are relevant when testing videos—including functional, compatibility, and accessibility. |
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Beauty, Art, and SoftwareThinking about connections between beauty, art, literature, and software may not seem as immediately useful as learning a new language or methodology, but doing so can help you be a better developer and designer by exposing you to different ways of thinking—or even improving how you think. | 
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Field Testing Software: Boon and BaneOver the years the technology industry has accepted field testing as an important step in gaining confidence that a product is ready for launch. This is especially true for certain disciplines, as the consequences of software flaws can be grave. But is field testing always possible and a boon? |
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It's Time to Wake Up the Tester in YouWhile test teams still primarily own product quality, quality is evolving to be an overall team responsibility. Every discipline—design, development, business, marketing, and operations—has its own role to play in shipping a user-ready, competitive, and quality product. |
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What Testers Should Know about Human-Computer Interaction Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a discipline in software development that is not widely used but can be very effective. Brendan Quinn looks at ways to learn about HCI and the HCI tools and practices with which testers should become familiar. |
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Do Testers and Software QA Engineers Need Technical Skills?The debate is heating up again. Do testers need technical skills in order to be effective? Do they need to be technical testers? David Greenlees attempts to define a "technical tester" and whether or not testers really need to know how to code. | 
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Quality Assurance for Crowdsourced ContentCrowdsourcing in software quality assurance is especially handy in leveraging a community’s skills and knowledge as end users, their domain expertise, and their testing background. Rajini Bharath highlights the core approaches and best practices when generating and verifying crowdsourced content. |
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