Exploring the Need for Holistic Performance Test StrategiesMukesh Sharma looks at why performance, of the various attributes that testers target, should always remain a very important piece of the pie. In an agile world, performance test strategies must be nimble and robust enough to try new approaches to meet the need of the day.
How Six Thinking Hats Can Help with User Experience TestingThe Six Thinking Hats concept aims to minimize the confusion in thinking that arises because of the way the human brain usually thinks—taking into consideration emotions, facts, creativity, hope, and logic all at once. Anuj Magazine looks at how this concept can help with user experience testing.
How Software Testers Can Become Internet SamaritansSince only 35 percent of the world's population use the Internet, two great opportunities exist for software testers—one, the ability to find out why so many people avoid the Internet, and two, the opening for usability tests to discover how to get these citizens online.
Why the Government Health Care Site Launch Was Doomed from the StartThe implementation of the Affordable Care Act on October 1, 2013, prompted the launch of a government website—HealthCare.gov—to help people purchase health insurance coverage. Almost immediately after going live, the website crashed. What went wrong isn't as simple as failing to do load testing.
Yahoo! Ups Bug Bounties after T-Shirt GateJoining the ranks of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla, and others, Yahoo! will now offer payments or so-called bounties to developers and security researchers for finding security vulnerabilities in their software and applications. This move is not without some controversy.
Mobile Advertising Opens New Opportunities for Ad TestingAdvertising-revenue-generating giants like Facebook and Google are rolling out new advertising practices, and software testing is being implemented to ensure their fans embrace the new format. Learn how these new ads are expanding to multiple areas of tests that need to be run before publishing.
The Four Cs of Extending DevOps with Cloud AutomationCombining DevOps with a hybrid cloud architecture breaks down the traditional barriers between development, QA, and IT operations organizations and removes the silos that constrain enterprise development. Sumit Mehrotra explains how this combination makes DevOps and the cloud even more powerful.
Usability's Growing Role in the Development LifecycleUsability can no longer be looked at as a time-permitting exercise in the software development lifecycle. Mukesh Sharma explains how, with users so willing to share their experiences with usability, there is no reason for testers not to take that invaluable feedback seriously.
