quality assurance
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QA Engineer: The Happiest Job in AmericaSoftware quality assurance engineers were recently crowned as having the happiest jobs in America. We look at what factors were used in making this distinction, while looking for other software positions in the top twenty. Did yours make the list? | 
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Miss Something Obvious? Your Brain Might Be WorkingHave you ever misplaced your keys, only to find them exactly where you left them? Or overlooked a software issue that seemed so obvious once you spotted it? It's a common problem and might actually be your brain's way of avoiding distractions. | 
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What Do Our Customers Really Want?Agile teams can create software quickly, but how quickly can they gather and process feedback from customers? Here is one team's experience, with some tips and resources to help you introduce a community of practice in your own organization. | 
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Capture/Playback: The Vampire That Will Not DieYears after industry articles by reputable experts proclaimed the death of capture/playback as a viable test automation approach, it has apparently arisen from the dead to suck the life out of another generation of hapless, would-be automators. | 
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Curiosity—and Its Software—on Tour of MarsThe Mars rover Curiosity reached its destination earlier this month after years of planning, months of travel through space, and some very careful landing maneuvers. At the heart of Curiosity is some very complex software. If you think testing in production is hard, try testing all the way to Mars. | 
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Malware "Gauss" Aimed at Online Banking in Middle EastRussian security company Kaspersky Labs recently announced the discovery of a new cyber threat called “Gauss” that targets online banking in the Middle East. Likely activated in September 2011, Gauss infections have been recorded more than 2,500 times by Kaspersky's cloud-based security system. | 
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Test Automation Gone WildThe stock market has a messy relationship with software. It operates on automation software, but that same software recently made the news for triggering stock plunges. If financial firms aren't scrimping on testing, then what or who gets the blame? Is there a place for testing in production? |
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What Is DevOps All About? DevOps is an umbrella concept that serves as a response to the "wall of confusion" that sometimes occurs when the communication between development and operations becomes unreliable. How does this confusion come about? What are some of the elements that fall under the DevOps umbrella? |
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