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Monthly Archives: June 2011

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    Introducing our EuroSTAR 2011 VideoSTAR

    Malini Mohan was the winner of this years VideoSTAR contest and as a reward will now present her presentation 'Teamwork within the Test Team' at EuroS...

    • 30/06/2011
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    Effective Application Security Can’t be Met by Tools Alone

    Developing quality applications is not getting any easier with the growing pressure on businesses to reduce costs and shorter time-to-market. Today, c...

    • 28/06/2011
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    Another glitch in the system: Could better quality test data have resulted in 15,000 people avoiding Olympic disappointment?

    Friday morning, 6am, the race began to apply for the 'second chance sales' of Olympic tickets.According to a report in Monday's Independent, somew...

    • 28/06/2011
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    Test Automation How Far Should It Go?

    In the old days (and I have been in the profession for about 25 years) testing of code modules was an intensively manual process. Test harnesses need...

    • 23/06/2011
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    Hacked off why data testing needs to get creative

      Ever wondered who is behind the various breaches that have plagued the likes of, oh I don't know, small outfits that you might not ha...

    • 22/06/2011
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    Enterprise spanning Applications Need Right Testing Approach

    Over the last few years, business applications such as Enterprise ResourcePlanning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Customer Relationship Mana...

    • 22/06/2011
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    Making the Case for Exploratory Testing

    In the pantheon of software testing methodologies, exploratory testing ranks among the most interactive and dynamic. However, amongst experienced tes...

    • 20/06/2011
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    Mind Mapping 101

    Summary In the following post we look at the usage of mind maps for various testing activities such as test design, test planning, session reports, r...

    • 20/06/2011
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    What you can expect from being a EuroSTAR TestLab Apprentice

    We won the EuroSTAR TestLab Apprentices competition last year and had a marvelous experience. This also meant that we are appointed to run the TestLab...

    • 17/06/2011
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    Testing Slow Flows Fast

    We live in a world where instant fulfillment is a keyword when doing business. Everything seems to be going faster and faster in our 'online' world. C...

    • 16/06/2011
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    Webinar on Testing High Frequency Trading Applications

    There is intensive competition today between exchange venues to provide faster and faster execution times for the high frequency trading desks seeking...

    • 16/06/2011
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    Effective User Acceptance Testing To Ensure End-user Satisfaction

    There is an increased pressure on enterprises today to deliver quality software, while at the same time meet the business demand for reduced costs and...

    • 13/06/2011
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    What inspires our Testing Discipline?

    Inspiration is essential in any creative activity and Testing is no exception. I am curious to find out what inspires our testing discipline, what sti...

    • 09/06/2011
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    Manual Testers Don’t Grow on Trees

    Remove Your Manual Testing Bottlenecks In today's day and age, it should be possible for the results of tests to be automatically documented in detai...

    • 07/06/2011
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    Tester Motivation – The New and The Old

    Tester Motivation - the new and the old (your chance to provide evidence - see the survey at end) If someone told you that a container of hot water...

    • 07/06/2011
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    Being a Test Lab Rat by Shmuel Gershon

    Conferences are great. We confer, we learn new things, we listen to repeated things, and we get a big motivation shot. Testing conferences are great t...

    • 07/06/2011
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    Better Requirements Means less Retesting and Fewer Cycles

    Getting the requirements right in the first place will greatly reduce the overall effort which in turn leads to less retesting and fewer cycles, while...

    • 03/06/2011
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    Data and the common man

    Google's Eric Schmidt caused a hoo-ha recently when he suggested that issues surrounding user privacy are a greater obsession with 'the elites' than t...

    • 02/06/2011
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