Testing and Quality Assurance
Testing and Quality Assurance
Test and QA Stories
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An Objective Look at Gender Pay DisparityThe topic of gender pay disparity is in the hot seat with a lot of studies being released about the pay disparity in large IT firms. However, there are certain jobs where the average base salary of a woman is higher than that of a man. Rajini Padmanaban looks at the facts and myths about this issue. | 
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The Cultural Changes Testers Most Want to SeeA recent survey of software testers explored their pain points and the state of testing today. In many ways, the answers have not changed much in the last twenty-five years. What are the most important cultural changes testers want to see? What has actually gotten better in the last quarter-century? | 
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Keeping Quality in DevOpsIn our drive for better quality and productivity, we are coming close to realizing full continuous application lifecycle management. Continuous testing is emerging as a best practice that focuses on developing testing procedures, primarily automated, to meet the need for fast application testing. | 
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Ben Simo Presents The Power of an Individual Tester at STARWEST 2014In this STARWEST 2014 keynote, Ben Simo shares his experience with HealthCare.gov, the issues he found, and lessons testers can learn from the website's failures. He digs into everything he had to do to discover the many flaws of the government website. | 
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Quality Principles for Today’s GluewareIn this STARWEST 2014 keynote, Julie Gardiner goes into how to make the business case for including test professionals in software evaluation in order to add their unique focus on software quality. She gives advice on how to talk to managers and produce better software. |
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Why You Should Focus On What Automation Does Not DoOften, what automation “does” directly relates to the bottom line. This has loosely been interpreted as the misconception that the more automation you have, the fewer people you will need on your payroll. Melissa Tondi focuses on what automation does not do to give a more accurate idea. | 
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Maintaining Testable Requirements and Acceptance CriteriaOnce a testable requirement or acceptance criteria have been “created,” there is a tendency to assume that the task can be considered completed. Because that may or may not be true, it is better to continue to pay attention to testability. Here are four ways to maintain testable requirements. | 
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Paco Hope Presents Security Testing for Muggles at STARWEST 2014Paco Hope, principal consultant for Cigital, presented the last keynote of STARWEST 2014: “Softwarts: Security Testing for Muggles.” He exposed some testing fallacies, gave four principles for security testing, and detailed some charms every good testing wizard should have in his spell book. | 
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