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Working Your Way Out of Large Technical Debt in a Small ProjectWhen you transition to agile with a small project and you have a reasonably sized codebase, chances are quite good that you’ve been working on the product for a while. You have legacy code—and that code comes with technical debt. Johanna Rothman has ideas about how to work yourself out of it.
Developers and Testers: How to Be a Good Follower

Followership is the capacity of an individual to actively follow a leader. In an autocratic world, followership would mean "do as I say," but in information technology, which is more participative in nature, followership means much more than being a robot who just follows instructions.

Two Reasons Why Test Automation Projects Fail

Very few things catch the fancy of management as much as the compelling prospect of automating tests. Test automation, after being projected as a magic wand, often fails to live up to the expectations. The core question is—Why do test automation projects fail?

Google Raises the Stakes for Bug BountiesTo keep security bug reports coming in for their bug bounty programs, Google is willing to write bigger checks. The company announced that it is raising security rewards—up to five times higher in some cases—for its Chromium program. Pamela Rentz highlights the recent bug bounty program changes.
Google's Organization-Wide Innovation StrategiesOrganizations that adopt a well thought-out strategy toward innovation and are able to allocate the required resources for it set themselves up to emerge as market leaders in the long run—both tactically and strategically. Rajini Padmanaban profiles Google's organization-wide innovation strategies.
Are Test Plans Important to a Project's Success?Anuj Magazine examines the differences between a plan and planning, how important test plans really are, and whether or not test plans are important to a project's success.
How Do You Inculcate the Habit of Reading in Testers?Reading skills for software testers are vital because the greater the awareness of how we read, the more it helps in the process of questioning and evaluation associated with software testing. Anuj Magazine looks at how to inculcate the habit of reading.
The Challenges of Wearable Tech: What It Means for QA/TestYou thought the switch from developing and testing for desktop to mobile was extreme? The upsurge of wearable tech has the potential to shake up the dev and QA worlds like nothing before.