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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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Use Session-Based Testing to Structure Exploratory Testing Session-based testing is a framework to support exploratory testing. Brendan Quinn provides an introduction to session-based testing—from its creation by James and Jonathan Bach to project tools that can assist with session-based testing. |
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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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Why Testers Need to Become More Technical As projects become more technical, testers themselves must adapt and become more technical. With technologies getting more complex each day, testers need to know how to identify risks and find problems deep within the technology stack. |
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Being a Shark: Software Testing for Small Startups As a developer in a startup you will be the core of any testing effort. You have to be a shark. You have to keep moving to stay alive. You don’t have weeks to think, plan, write, execute, and repeat. You don’t have time to clutter your process. You have to think differently when it comes to testing. |
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What Is Bug Chaining?Dealing with groups of bugs is one of the places where conventional bug-tracking systems often fall down. Enter bug chaining, an idea originating in the security testing community, that combines different bugs of low severity to create a defect of high severity. | 
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Preparing to Test for Big DataBoth small and large organizations are grappling to build the required expertise, skill set, and infrastructure facilities to leverage big data to positively impact their businesses. Rajini Bharath offers five keys points that will set a testing team on a path to big data success. |
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The Life and Death Testing of Medical Devices It is a huge responsibility to ensure that the medical devices people rely on for their lives and health get tested thoroughly. Medical device testing is really about embedded testing and requires a different and more rigorous approach to testing than your normal web application. |
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