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The Key Areas Where Testers Need to Grow With new methodologies, technologies, and innovations constantly being introduced, testers need to continue to push forward with an open mind and an understanding of different disciplines to make sure they have a rock-solid standing in the process. |
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How to Communicate to Build Trust on a Scrum TeamTrust among the ScrumMaster, product owner, and development team is essential to making the process work. Transparency, inspection, and adaptation are the three pillars of Scrum, and you can't commit to these actions if everyone doesn’t have openness and respect for each other. Communication is the best way to do that. | 
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Advice for When People Don’t Respond to Your EmailThere are many valid reasons a person may not respond to your email, but even knowing that, it's hard not to be curious or confused, or to take it personally. Read on for tips on how to improve the odds of hearing back from busy people, as well as advice for sending a follow-up message without being confrontational. | 
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Gearing Up to Test in the Augmented and Virtual Reality World With close to $9 billion being funneled into virtual reality investments in the last five years and the number of users buying these devices continuing to rise, the augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) sectors are important areas in which testers should focus their efforts. |
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3 Core DevOps Values for Testers to Know With DevOps, modern software teams of all shapes and sizes are aiming to deliver a high-quality software production early and often. Shifting testing earlier into your development lifecycle and smartly using test automation to reduce bottlenecks can create a more seamless, collaborative business. |
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Building Collaborative AI by Catching Minecraft Pigs For artificial intelligence (AI) to become useful in our everyday lives, AI must have the ability to work with other agents and humans in order to function in complex environments. At Microsoft, one AI research approach involves creepers, endermen, zombies, skeletons, Iron Golems and, yes, those pigs. |
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How to Edit Someone Else’s WritingIf colleagues ask you to edit their work, don’t take on the task unless you’re willing to be honest with your comments. You can do that without being harsh, though. Be sure to find out what it is about their work your coworkers would like help with, look at the pieces in multiple formats, and deliver criticism kindly. |
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The Debate over Testing versus CheckingTesting and checking, like a lot of language in software testing, is there in order to more precisely describe something we are already doing. However, there is a strange plague of people who feel the need to police others' language whenever they try to use the terms interchangeably. What we need is more understanding. | 
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