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May 7, 2009 0

Why Thinking ‘Inside the Box’ Is Sometimes Effective for Test Automation

Many automation projects often have boxes of time that are deemed more critical than others. As a byproduct, project members may only give attention to test automation implementation and its ...
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Mar 19, 2009 0

10 biggest mistakes developers make with databases

Although fashions come and go in software development, some things stay remarkably constant. One of these is the use of databases. You may be wonderfully up-to-date with an AJAX Web ...
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Mar 12, 2009 0

Why Load Testing Ajax is Hard

The reason Ajax has complicated things is that it encourages more logic and state to run inside the browser session. This means that just watching the traffic across the wire ...
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Mar 1, 2009 0

SOA Test Methodology

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises significant benefits to today's organizations.  Successfully delivering SOA benefits, especially Business Agility and Component Reuse, will be dependant on the Test Approach that your organization adopts ...
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Feb 26, 2009 0

10 Tips for Successful Agile Transitions

This video is a distillation of knowledge acquired from helping organizations transition to Agile methods for nearly a decade. Topics covered include readiness assessments, organizational antibodies, project community, ...
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Feb 24, 2009 0

Simple strategies to keep quality visible

In most projects, testers are the keepers of quality. Sharing the vision of quality with the entire team helps everyone involved in a project play a more active role in ...
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Feb 23, 2009 0

Agile Processes for Software Development

Paul Hodgetts, founder and visionary of AgileLogic, was the keynote speaker at the monthly SCQAA-OC meeting hosted by Capital Group in Irvine last Tuesday ...
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Feb 18, 2009 0

Increase group productivity with pbWiki

Today, businesses are focusing on doing more with less. Therefore, more than ever, productivity tools have become the by-word. PBwiki can improve productivity by improving coordination, reducing wasted ...
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Feb 15, 2009 0

Book: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

"Agile Testing" is an excellent and must-needed book related to testing in agile product development. Much has been written about test-driven development on unit level, however, little has ...
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Feb 9, 2009 0

Tips to help you write Sarbanes-Oxley test plans

If you work for a public company, chances are there's a Sarbanes Oxley (S-Ox) project underway. As a manager over a key IT area, you've been recruited to help! If ...
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Feb 9, 2009 0

Book: The art of application performance testing

Here's a great simple to follow book on performance testing we think you might want to add to your QA library. The Art of Application Performance Testing provides a ...
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Feb 7, 2009 0

How-to make your QTP scripts perform better

Everyone knows we use automated testing tools to optimize our testing process. Unless you make full use of the capability of the tool and unless a tool is used sensibly ...
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