Testing and Quality Assurance
Testing and Quality Assurance
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Four Tips for Mentoring Software Team MembersMentoring can be an invaluable tool to make sure a software development or testing team reaches its full potential and to ensure that members feel respected and valued. Nirav Assar looks at four essentials of mentoring that should never be overlooked when nurturing your team. | 
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How Agile Prevents Software Decay All of us have been in the situation where fixing a single issue can produce several other defects. Agile embraces continuous design changes and code refactoring to meet challenges from emerging requirements. This inherently promotes practices that prevent software decay. |
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Are You Ready for Wearable Computing?Wearable computing isn’t a new concept, but as we watch newer wearable products enter the market, it's interesting to see what this means to testers. Rajini Padmanaban looks at the core factors in the success of a wearable computing product and how they affect testers and their testing efforts. | 
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Target's Website Snafu Suggests More Exploratory TestingTarget recently found itself in the news over a mislabeled product on its website that generated embarrassing results. The website snafu proves the importance of having an exploratory test team that manually tests in a production environment. | 
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Software Development Education Needs—Where Are the Testers?Software development is one of the fastest growing job functions. Unfortunately, schools and their students are failing to keep up with demand. One job role that is almost completely missing from college and technical educations is software testing. What's that all about? | 
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The Power of Story Telling for Software TestersStory telling in software testing is one of the more important aspects of the craft. As testers, test leads, and test managers, you do it all the time. The trick is to make the story a powerful one. | 
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The Push and Pull in Corporate Learning The extent to which corporate training and learning programs are beneficial is often questionable. An effective push-pull mechanism between employer and employee is what is needed to weave in time for learning and training despite everyone’s busy schedule. |
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The Rise in Vlogging—Why Testers Should Care Vlogging is increasingly catching the software development industry's attention, and the scope for growth is still large. Rajini Padmanaban looks at the areas that are relevant when testing videos—including functional, compatibility, and accessibility. |
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