Testing and Quality Assurance
Testing and Quality Assurance
Test and QA Stories
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Is Firefox Mobile OS Good for Developers and Testers?Firefox’s new mobile OS is set to debut in July. Developers seem eager to get their hands on the new system. Will it become a mainstay in the mobile world? uTest's Ryan Arsenault looks at Firefox's odds of success when competing against iOS, Android, and BlackBerry. | 
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Embracing Chaos Testing Helps Create Near-Perfect CloudsNetflix's "Simian Army" consists of services (Monkeys) in the cloud for generating various kinds of failures or abnormal conditions and then testing the system's ability to survive them. Chaos Monkey works on the premise that if we need to design for high availability, we should design for failure. | 
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Is Outsourced Software Testing on the Way Out?Companies have been using outsourced employees, especially in software testing, for years now—but is the trend starting to wane? Recent studies have shown that perhaps outsourcing doesn't come with all the advantages that were once promised, and the same results can be achieved in-house. | 
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The Growing Need for Nonfunctional Testing on Mobile DevicesWith the increased versatility of mobile devices, it is becoming necessary as a mobile application tester to keep in mind not only the mobile functional elements at play, but more importantly the mobile nonfunctional elements when determining the test scope. | 
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How Exhaustive Testing Ensured a Successful Voyage for the Mars RoverBonnie Bailey writes on the software testing that took place to ensure that NASA's Curiosity rover would have a successful voyage to Mars. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory handled the myriad risks through well-planned software architecture, tight coding standards, and exhaustive testing. | 
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The Yin and Yang of E-Readers While the leading e-reading players—who started off with a monopoly—still continue to have their large share of the market, other players are slowly and steadily entering the space making it a domain closely watched by the device and software makers, content providers, and end users. |
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Software Testers—Are You Effective Bug Advocates?Bug advocacy goes beyond bug reports and has more to do with what happens outside the realm of a defect tracking system. Anuj Magazine looks at the skills needed to be an effective bug advocate: ability to convey bad news, influential work relationships, and a positive influence on stakeholders. |
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Using Crowd Wisdom as a Marketing ToolCrowdsourcing in its various forms has become a powerful technique used to connect with the end users and community, to engage with them, and to leverage their wisdom. While each form is powerful in its own right, crowd wisdom is becoming an important and inevitable marketing tool. |
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