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The Challenges of Mobile Testing for Jailbroken DevicesMany of the automation tools for mobile testing on the market today require the use of jailbroken or rooted devices, a controversial condition that some testing advocates believe violates mobile testing best practices. Bonnie Bailey writes of the challenges jailbroken devices present to testers. | 
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How to Keep Big Data on Mobile Devices Secure in 2013Mobile devices are a great way for employees to rapidly access, send, and receive company data. As more and more companies and even government organizations move toward BYOD and business apps, now is the time to make sure that your employees know how to protect that information. | 
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Is Software Testing a Thankless Job? QA teams often get blamed for things that are out of their control. These three issues are the biggest pain points: missed bugs, missed deadlines, and poor quality | 
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Moving Beyond a Superficial Understanding of Agile While agile is almost universally hailed, the majority of executives only have a "superficial" understanding of the methodology. Steve Vaughn explains that this level of understanding by upper management is a serious impediment to the necessary culture change that needs to take place. |
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Why Do We Make Bad Decisions?In the workplace, not a day goes by that you don’t have to make a decision, or more likely several. How many of them subsequently proved to be bad decisions? Naomi Karten writes why it's worth considering how these decisions can affect your professional and personal life. | 
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Are Test Teams Prepared to Handle Mergers and Acquisitions?While mergers and acquisitions may be necessary to stay competitive and relevant in the market, there are core challenges that should be handled internally to make them successful, especially from an IT angle. Testing staff can help build a collaborative team through a merger or acquisition. | 
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Google’s Eighteen Minutes of Downtime—Security Fears Remain Google's Chrome and Gmail crash lasted only eighteen minutes on Monday, but what kind of damage do these repeated, albeit brief, downtimes cause those who are already skeptical of moving their data to the cloud? One way to stop the bleeding is to quickly let customers know what went wrong. |
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Should SCM Professionals Be Scripting Experts?Joe Farah explains to what degree should SCM professionals be scripting experts. While high-level scripting for SCM professionals is great, you might need to rethink your technology so your CM team can do real work. | 
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