Chances are, if you have been in the testing community for any length of time, you have heard the concept of risk based testing. The concept of risk based testing is not really new. When I first started...
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Ron WilsonDoes a great programmer equal a great tester?
One of the questions that many people have asked over the years is: does a great programmer equal a great tester? It is certainly a valid question and one that I am going to answer for you. Here are some...
Creating A Test Center of Excellence
There are a lot of companies that are working to create a test center of excellence. I have done some research and found several white papers on creating a TCOE. Cigniti TCOE HP TCOE Infosys TCOE Perficient TCOE...
Creating a QA Organizational Structure
When establishing a new QA organizational structure, one of the first activties is to determine what the QA organizational structure will look like. It is important to gain executive approval and support...
Starting a QA Organization
As most IT organizations expand, one of the things they will decide on is whether to form a centralized QA organization. A centralized QA organization is one of the elements of creating a test center of excellence...
Creating a QA Roadmap
As a software testing leader, it is very important to provide your team with a vision of what an organization should look like. You don’t need to have all the details figured out, but you need to provide...
Fundamentals of Software Testing
In software testing you have many key essentials, testing is done to verify and validate that a software application or program meets the business and technical requirements that guided its design and development. ...
Top 5 Software Testing Books on Amazon
Here are the top 5 books available on the internet today that will give you expert information on software testing. 1. Software Testing (2nd Edition), provides practical insight into the world of software testing and...
Test Environment Virtualization
Test environment virtualization is an innovative solution that will enable development and testing teams to simulate and model the environments that would otherwise not be available until a later point in the SDLC...
Software Testing Assessment: Are They Worth It?
There has been a long debate around bringing in software testing consultants to perform a software testing assessment. I am seeing a stronger case in my mind, especially as my company is starting to get into the...