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Entries for the 'Testing & Quality Assurance (QA) ' Category


» FEATURED: Getting the Most out of Your Beta Launch
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Getting the Most out of Your Beta Launch Before an organization releases a new piece of software or web feature to all of its customers or the general public, it will generally offer a limited audience a chance to test drive the feature and offer their feedback. This is generally known as a Beta launch...

» FEATURED: A Proposal for an Agile Development Testing V-Model
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A Proposal for an Agile Development Testing V-Model This article proposes a V-Model for agile development testing and invites feedback from the reader. The agile method used in this article is Scrum; the author assumes the reader is familiar with this solution development life cycle.

» FEATURED: Dreaming Of A Business Analyst Career: A Personal Journey From QA To BA
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Dreaming Of A Business Analyst Career: A Personal Journey From QA To BA We BA's are occasionally asked, "What do you do?" I try to make a joke out of this innocent question by replying, "Well, what would YOU do with English and writing degrees? I'm a Business Analyst of course." People don’t laugh.

» FEATURED: Using Extreme Inspections to Significantly Improve Requirements Practice
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Using Extreme Inspections to Significantly Improve Requirements Practice Extreme Inspections are a low-cost, high-improvement way to assure specification quality, effectively teach good specification practice, and make informed decisions about the requirements specification process and its output, in any project. The method is not restricted to be used on requirements analysis related material; this article however is l...

» FEATURED: Putting the User Back in User Acceptance Testing
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Why is it so challenging to get users involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)? Isn’t it called UAT because the users are the main participants? My experience has shown that involving users in all phases of the project, especially UAT, is the best way to ensure project success. This article will present a proven approach to increasing user involve...

» Manager's Guide to User Acceptance Testing
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For most businesses and organisations, if IT stops, the business stops. Whenever a company turns on a new production line, opens a new retail store, launches a new product or provides a new service, there is invariably a new or modified IT system behind it. Going live is the culmination of time, effort, resources and finance. A problem-free IT syst...

» FEATURED: Eight Competencies a Business Analyst Needs to Know
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Every year, organizations around the world face startlingly high project failure rates. Some research has shown that less than 30 percent of software projects are completed on time and on budget—and barely 50 percent end up meeting their proposed functionality. If you’re a big league baseball player, failing five to seven times out of ten will get ...

» Who Does QA? Hint: Not your testers!
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Many of us have Quality Assurance (QA) groups in our organizations, and the natural assumption might be that these groups are responsible for the quality of our products. For a few of us, that assumption might hold true, but for most organizations, the QA group cannot be held responsible for quality because they don't actually assure quality. What ...

» Never Let a Good Editor Go
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When documenting systems, quality assurance requires quality support people, especially final content editors. They are worth their weight in gold-edged certificates. If you are part of a large project that has a very large documentation aspect, learn to nurture, develop and retain a good editorial staff, and do not forget to keep everyone's skills...

» Exploiting use cases to improve test quality
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Test organizations can realize significant gains in test quality by harnessing the power of use cases. For years, developers and business analysts have employed use case models to capture requirements. Test organizations can greatly benefit by using these same use case techniques. Well-constructed use cases provide value to testing efforts in terms...
  

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