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Thinksoft Offers Thinksoft Certification Program In Financial Software Testing

(RTTNews) – Thinksoft Global Services Ltd. said it had signed a memorandum of understanding or MoU with TalentSprint to offer one year certification program in Financial Software Testing. Software testing is a mission critical component within the global banking and financial industry and this “Thinksoft Certification Program in Financial Software Testing’ would cater to a [...]

Trading Places: 8 Alternate Careers For Software Testers

We often ask our Testing the Limits guests what they would do in a world with no need for software testers. So far, answers have included mandolin player, pilot, stand-up comedian, sports announcer, werewolf hunter and other typical trades. This got us to thinking, “what other careers would software testers be good at?” Not that [...]

The Reality of Software Testing in an Agile Environment

The definition of agile testing can be described as follows: “Testing practice for projects using agile technologies, treating development as the customer of testing and emphasizing a ‘test-first’ design philosophy. In agile development, testing is integrated throughout the lifecycle, testing the software throughout its development.” * This white paper addresses the following myths about Agile [...]

Coding and Testing: Testers and Programmers Working Together

In agile development, we write high-level test cases before coding even starts. This is a good practice no matter what development methodology you’re using. Testers are skilled at helping business experts clarify their requirements for a particular feature or piece of functionality, and using those to provide the big picture for what the code needs [...]

The Impact of Automation on Development

If you’re thinking of introducing test automation to your process, you may have a plan for how it will affect your testers. But what about the development side of things? Think about it. Manual testers only have to be able to interact with the application using the screen, keyboard, and mouse or other device. Automated [...]

Becoming an Influential Test Team Leader

The reason it is so important to add value to your team and to your organisation is that when a test team is seen as just a group that finds defects, it’s easy to see them as the problem. It’s also easy to justify outsourcing such a group because they mainly do one job. This [...]

Career Paths for Testers Using Personas

Do you or the testers on your team have an idea of what your career may look like in five years or more? Will testers who accumulate years of experience lead to better and broader testing? Do the testers you work with have role models who encourage them to learn and grow as testers? Experienced [...]

Performance vs. Load vs. Stress Testing

Here’s a good interview question for a tester: how do you define performance/load/stress testing? Many times people use these terms interchangeably, but they have in fact quite different meanings. This post is a quick review of these concepts, based on my own experience, but also using definitions from testing literature — in particular: “Testing computer [...]

Trends in software testing for 2011

BANGALORE, INIDA: IT applications are increasingly constituted of complex business processes and are becoming more intricate and inter-connected. This aspect, combined with the pressure to reduce IT spend, is forcing enterprises to look for alternate ways to manage their growing portfolio of requirements; such as streamlining the quality processes, increasing the degree of test automation [...]

Exploratory Testing or Scripted Testing: Which Comes First?

The conversation was prompted by a Twitter exchange on exploratory testing (ET) started by Andy Glover, who observed that “When developing scripts you need to explore. But this tends to be exploring with out the s/w so I would say it’s not ET.: I disagree; developing scripts is test design, and test design is certainly [...]

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