Testing and Quality Assurance

Testing and Quality Assurance

Test and QA Stories
How to Test Mobile Websites In today’s marketplace you absolutely will lose visitors if your website doesn’t have a mobile version. Here are some quick tips and tools to help you create the perfect mobile-optimized website.
Cyber Attacks: The Effect on CM and QAThis month US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta issued a call to arms over the growing cyber attacks on American banks. Joe Townsend explores how these attacks will affect configuration management professionals and quality assurance dilemmas.
What You Need to Know about Creating Kindle Fire Apps The Kindle Fire is one of the most popular tablets on the market. But like all devices, it has its own set of development and testing challenges. Here’s what you need to know to create a successful Kindle app.
An Interview with Mobile Testing Expert Karen N. JohnsonAn independent software test consultant and a frequent speaker at software conferences, Karen N. Johnson is a mobile testing expert. In this exclusive Q&A, Karen shares her thoughts on mobile app testing, the latest testing trends, data warehousing, and other topics.
Performing Effective Automated Acceptance TestingSoftware development teams that want to automate their regression testing suites may wonder if there is any way to see the forest for the trees regarding their numerous story tests. Kent McDonald explains how to perform effective automated acceptance testing amidst all the noise.
Making Room for Constructive QAIn the software world, QA is often treated as a synonym for testing, but its scope is far broader than that. Rick Scott explores his view of QA—figuring out what's interfering with the team's ability to deliver good software then finding ways to address it—and how others typically view QA.
The Top Five UX Pet Peeves We Love to HateThe common themes underlying many user experience problems boil down to forcing users to do work that the software should have done for them or assuming that software developers know better than users what they want or need. Rick Scott details his top five user experience pet peeves.
Ten Things to Know about Blackberry 10Research in Motion is looking to win back some market share with its upcoming Blackberry 10 release. Here are ten things developers should know about the new platform—and why you shouldn’t discount BB 10 just yet.