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How to avoid flaky automated testing results
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 by Richard Harris
Flaky tests are the bane of any tester’s existence, forcing them to spend precious time on non-functional issues. This slows down the product lifecycle and lowers an organization’s confidence in functional testing, which also decreases the likelihood of development teams writing end-to-end tests.End-to-end tests measure readiness for deployment by ensuring that the appl...
QASymphony Releases Survey on TestFirst Methodologies for Software Testing
Thursday, July 28, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
QASymphony has released the results of a survey of more than 200 software testers as part of QASymphony’s first “State of Test-First Methodologies” report. The survey was conducted online in February.Among the key findings from the survey was that Test-First methodologies – though still in their infancy from a global adoption perspective – have the potential to signific...
QASymphony's New JIRA Plugin Supports TestFirst Development Philosophy
Monday, November 9, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
QASymphony has released qTest Scenario, a new JIRA plugin that provides the ability to manage everything from test creation, execution and results through defect resolution, all within Atlassian’s JIRA software. qTest Scenario is currently in controlled release and will be available for GA in the Atlassian Marketplace in December. With qTest Scenario developm...
Top Five Lessons from Running A-B Tests on the World's Largest Professional Network
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 by Ya Xu
We run thousands of experiments each year at LinkedIn. Thousands of features, big and small, have been launched, refined, or discarded through our robust A/B testing platform. As a result of these experiments, we have learned a tremendous amount about how to make our products better and our members happier. At the same time, we have accumulated knowledge on how to ...
Not Enough Mobile Programmers!
Monday, July 15, 2013 by Richard Harris
Where are all the app developers asks Forbes? It's a well known fact that the IT industry hasn't really slowed down since it went mainstream in the early 90's. Back in the "old days" there was always the need for an IT admin, a help desk person, a engineer, and the list goes on. Among the laundry list of IT personal sat the programmer, at the top of the pay scale, and a...
