Testing and Quality Assurance
Testing and Quality Assurance
Test and QA Stories
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How Software Testers Can Become Internet SamaritansSince only 35 percent of the world's population use the Internet, two great opportunities exist for software testers—one, the ability to find out why so many people avoid the Internet, and two, the opening for usability tests to discover how to get these citizens online. | 
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Why the Government Health Care Site Launch Was Doomed from the StartThe implementation of the Affordable Care Act on October 1, 2013, prompted the launch of a government website—HealthCare.gov—to help people purchase health insurance coverage. Almost immediately after going live, the website crashed. What went wrong isn't as simple as failing to do load testing. | 
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Yahoo! Ups Bug Bounties after T-Shirt GateJoining the ranks of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla, and others, Yahoo! will now offer payments or so-called bounties to developers and security researchers for finding security vulnerabilities in their software and applications. This move is not without some controversy. | 
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Mobile Advertising Opens New Opportunities for Ad TestingAdvertising-revenue-generating giants like Facebook and Google are rolling out new advertising practices, and software testing is being implemented to ensure their fans embrace the new format. Learn how these new ads are expanding to multiple areas of tests that need to be run before publishing. |
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What Does It Really Cost to Fix a Software Defect?Bonnie Bailey writes that confirmation bias leads us to throw out the critical thinking needed to determine if the “average cost to fix one defect” metric, which is what we really have to figure out to get the data points for the Boehm curve, is really even a valid metric in the first place. | 
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The Four Cs of Extending DevOps with Cloud AutomationCombining DevOps with a hybrid cloud architecture breaks down the traditional barriers between development, QA, and IT operations organizations and removes the silos that constrain enterprise development. Sumit Mehrotra explains how this combination makes DevOps and the cloud even more powerful. | 
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Usability's Growing Role in the Development LifecycleUsability can no longer be looked at as a time-permitting exercise in the software development lifecycle. Mukesh Sharma explains how, with users so willing to share their experiences with usability, there is no reason for testers not to take that invaluable feedback seriously. |
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Prioritize Testing Tasks by Prioritizing Your AudiencesThe solution to prioritizing work is a matter of prioritizing audiences. A tester’s work has an audience: users, coworkers, and bosses. Testing is a service we provide to each audience, so it is important to know which audience is at the top of the "make happy" list. |
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