Archives for the tag: testing

(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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(Guest blog) When 4/5 Dentists Agree, Why Do 4/5 Testers Disagree?

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 Lanette Creamer, an Agile testing consultant involved in software testing since 1999. Testers are prone to argue about anything. Just last night, at the Selenium Meetup, a fellow tester, Gary Masnica said, "There is nothing worse than listening to two testers argue. Before

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(Guest blog) Enter the Defect: When In Doubt, Report the Bug

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. It's written by Richard Hale, a Senior Consultant & Director of Quality Assurance with Go2Group. As an Atlassian Platinum Expert, Go2Group provides its clients with world-class ALM and Testing services, with expertise in integration solutions for Atlassian, HP, Perforce, MuleSoft, IBM, and

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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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