Software tester training is something that appears to require a lot more attention, given the number of conversations we have on a regular basis. We get a surprising number of questions about software tester training and plans, so we’ve dedicated our next blog series on how to train software testers.
Month: August 2016
Testing Sources of Information
Sources of information for testing tend to come from two extremes. In some cases you may have almost no information and find it difficult to start. In other cases you may have far too much information and not know what to do with it all or where to start or stop reading. The ‘happy medium’… Continue reading Testing Sources of Information
Upcoming Course – Essentials of Leadership in Software Testing
Happening October 20 – 21 in Toronto, Canada this 2-day course offers solutions and techniques available to Test Leads and QA Managers in the challenges they face in managing Quality Assurance and Testing within their organizations.
Why Test Training
Test training is something that should be a ‘given’ and not something that a blog series should be devoted to. However, we get a surprising number of questions about test training and plans, that we thought we’d address a few of them here. So why train testers? You may recall that we defined three broad categories a couple of… Continue reading Why Test Training
The Out-of-Scope of Testing
The Out-of-Scope of Testing has only one definition (unlike the Scope of Testing) but it is much harder to document. We want to list everything we are not planning to test! However, the inevitable question is how far to go with our list. Obviously we are not going to list everything we are not going… Continue reading The Out-of-Scope of Testing
Scope of Testing
The Scope of Testing may relate to how much testing we are going to do or it may relate to how much of the system we are planning to test. The amount of testing could be defined as doing multiple phases of testing with differing aims. The amount of the system we are planning to test… Continue reading Scope of Testing
Test Training
Training seems like an obvious topic and not one to which a blog or two could be usefully devoted. However we get a surprising number of questions about training and plan to address a few of them here. The first one is what type of training is offered. We define three broad categories here: Training… Continue reading Test Training