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All posts by Amy E Reichert
QA Innovation – Using the senseshaping concept to discover customer needs
QA testers have a unique role and responsibility to serve the customer. Serving the customer in software testing means protecting customers from application defects, failures, and perceived failures from missing or misunderstood requirements.
December 9, 2022
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Feeding your QA Career – Developing Instinctive & Practical Skills
The QA testing profession requires both educational and long-term or experience-based learning. One can learn the basics from certification courses and exams, boot camp courses, and college-level courses where available.
November 4, 2022
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9 Min Read
Are Agile Self-Managing Teams Realistic with Layered Management?
Agile software development stems from a philosophy that being agile means creating and responding to change swiftly. Agile means having the ability to adapt and respond to change without dissolving into chaos.
October 25, 2022
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6 Min Read
Starting & growing a QA Testing career
The QA testing career includes following an often long, winding road filled with fun, chaos, challenges, and complexity. Financially, the spectrum is broad and influenced by location, company type, company size, and the QA tester’s experience level. QA testing is a profitable, enjoyable, and thriving career choice.
October 13, 2022
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10 Min Read
How to Get Practical Details from PMs to Reduce Defects & Missing Requirements
As a QA tester, you often find yourself with a set of user stories or requirements that are incomplete, or lacking sufficient user scenario details. What to do? The first logical step is to meet with or discuss the missing details with the product manager.
October 12, 2022
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6 Min Read
Chaos Engineering – Making Chaos work for Software Testing
At first glance, chaos engineering sounds similar to extreme programming in the early Agile days. Chaos meant random changes and continuously shifting requirements and application functionality.
July 11, 2022
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7 Min Read
Testing Centers of Excellence & Standardized QA Processes
TCoE or Testing Centers of Excellence refers to creating, supporting, and training QA testers using standardized testing procedures and processes. Long referred to as the QA Process, TCoEs are useful for establishing test organization in an Agile development environment.
June 30, 2022
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8 Min Read
Exploratory testing – Building skills through science, creativity, and intuition
QA testers must continuously learn and build their testing skills. The testing process changes constantly with ongoing speed to release pressure. The problem remains that defects find their way into every release seemingly regardless of the amount of time spent testing with formal manual and automated test scripts.
June 15, 2022
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