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QA Innovation Blog Round-Up

We've learned a lot from the submissions to our 13-part blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. Today we're excited to announce Bonfire 2, with new features to connect teams and testers and foster collaboration, so now is a great time to take a look back at everything we've heard so far. You can find all the posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. We started with a recipe for innovation success from our own Andrew Prentice, QA lead at Atlassian.

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(Guest blog) Revealing Oracles

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. This post is written by Anne-Marie Charrett, a testing coach and trainer with a passion for helping testers discover their testing strengths and become the testers they aspire to be. “An oracle is a principle or mechanism by which you recognize a problem.”(1) Oracles can be found everywhere.

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(Guest blog) 10 Top Tips for Test Managers

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. This post is written by Kieran Williams, QA Manager at Catch who has developed the highly successful QA management tool Enterprise Tester. Kieran has been involved in software testing since 1999. Have you noticed most of the testing information out there is quite often about the theory of testing?

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(Guest blog) The Changing Skillset of a Tester and Increasing the Speed to Cool

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 Part 1 of a two-part blog series on changing tester skillsets written by Craig Smith, an Agile Coach in Suncorp's Business Services division. Imagine this scenario. You are standing in an elevator with a senior manager and on the ride to the ground floor, after the usual pleasantries,

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(Guest blog) Risk: A four letter word for quality management?

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 Bryce Day, CEO of Catch and the driving force behind the development of the highly successful QA management tool Enterprise Tester. Bryce has been involved in software testing since 1997. Testers tend to talk testing. That means they want to know things like: the number

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(Guest blog) On the Redistribution of Testing – Part 2

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.  This is a guest blog post by Paul Gerrard, a Principal of Gerrard Consulting Limited and is the host of the UK Test Management Forum. It is Part 2 of a two-part blog series on the future of QA testing. In Part I of this article on the Redistribution of Testing, I suggested there were four

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