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(Guest blog) On the Redistribution of Testing – Part I

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. The post is written by Paul Gerrard, a Principal of Gerrard Consulting Limited and is the host of the UK Test Management Forum. It is Part 1 of a two-part blog series on the future of QA testing. Recently, there has been a spate of predictions of doom and gloom in our business.  Conference

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(Guest blog) Finding the Right Foot: Testing Efficiency Through Engineering Efficiency

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. The post is written by Catherine Powell, a principal at Abakas, a software consulting company. At Abakas, she provides engineering management, development, testing, and process consulting services.  Ahh, the glories of software creation. We have an idea, and an idea turns into a list, and

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13 Steps to Learn & Perfect Security Testing in your Org

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. Intro It is becoming more common for software applications to be written using web technologies, and for users to want to access them from anywhere, using an internet connection. Security of browser-based applications is very different from how things work with traditional thick-client architecture.

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(Guest blog) Interviewing the Product: Making Testing More Flexible with a Heuristic Test Strategy Model

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. The post is written by Michael Larsen, a "Lone Tester" with SideReel.com, which is a division of Rovi Corporation. His experience covers networking equipment software, SNMP applications, virtual machines, capacitance touch devices, video games and distributed database applications/web services. Processes

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Testing and Bad Smells: When to Investigate Potential Bugs

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. A condensed version of this post was published on January 10, 2012. We're now reposting the complete article. Something Smells Fishy You're testing a feature, and along the way you spot something that seems unrelated and trivial. Maybe it's a warning message in the logs that wasn't there before. Or some

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The only way to keep bugs out of your software

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. The only surefire way to guarantee bug-free software is to prevent their creation in the first place. Preventing bugs starts with communication and collaboration between product management, development, and QA. Atlassian Bonfire provides the tools and lightweight structure to foster discussion and

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