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Book Review: Discover to Deliver—Agile Product Planning and AnalysisDiscover to Deliver—Agile Product Planning and Analysis, Ellen Gottesdiener's and Mary Gorman's book, is for software teams that are good at creating software but struggle to create the right value. The authors show techniques to help you adapt to the specific delivery method you're using. | 
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Identify the Essence of the Test to Reduce Automation CostsDo you want to improve the readability of automation tests and make them easier to maintain when code or requirements change? Then you need to take a step back from the automation code itself and focus on what software consultant Dale Emery calls the “essence of the test.” | 
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Ask Questions and Observe Language to Find State TransitionsBugs that peek out during a window of vulnerability can make us think we’ve been outsmarted. But in their sleuthing bag testers have a powerful tool that can surface such issues: state modeling. Bonnie Bailey describes how to ask the right questions and observe language to find state transitions. |
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Why Testers Need to Tune Out the Noise and Focus on ValueHow do brand new testers—and experienced testers—make sense of their role in light of the myriad opinions about what testers are supposed to do? One simple way is this: Tune out the noise. Testers should use their own minds to focus on how people might obtain value from the program they’re testing. |
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Why You Must Depersonalize Feedback to Become a More Valuable Tester Welcoming feedback isn’t as easy as it sounds, especially when you’re in a testing role and potentially getting constant feedback from numerous sources. If you don’t depersonalize feedback and you react defensively, the people around you will likely start to disengage, check out, and move away. |
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Are You Ready for Wearable Computing?Wearable computing isn’t a new concept, but as we watch newer wearable products enter the market, it's interesting to see what this means to testers. Rajini Padmanaban looks at the core factors in the success of a wearable computing product and how they affect testers and their testing efforts. | 
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The Power of Story Telling for Software TestersStory telling in software testing is one of the more important aspects of the craft. As testers, test leads, and test managers, you do it all the time. The trick is to make the story a powerful one. | 
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Helpful Metaphors for Software TestingMetaphors are a wonderful way to describe something to your audience that they would not likely understand without them. Explaining testing to non-testers and testing concepts to experienced testers can be significantly easier when using good metaphors. |
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