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March 2012 – Issue 7

Published on March 13, 2012 in Archive, Latest Issues

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November 2011 – Issue 6

Published on November 15, 2011 in Archive, Latest Issues

Get The Testing Planet! We have expanded the options to subscribing to The Testing Planet. We hope you like them! Printed Annual Subscription – £15 UK / £21 EU / £25 ROW Kindle / iPad – US/ UK/ Germany / France Digital Pack (PDF, mobi, epub) – £3.99 Free PDF download In This Issue This issue [...]

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The Cartoon Corner – German Umlaut

Published on November 15, 2011 in Archive
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The Future Of Software Testing Part One – Testing In Production

Published on November 15, 2011 in Archive

Hey, want to know the future? OK, here it is: Testing in Production with real users in real data centers will be a necessity for any high performing large scale software service. Testers will leverage the Cloud to achieve unprecedented effectiveness and productivity. Software development organizations will dramatically change the way they test software and [...]

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Test Case Management Software Comparison Chart

Published on November 14, 2011 in Archive

Every software testing project needs to be organised. And if you really want to be efficient some kind of system is needed to manage all the requirements and data. Once an excel spreadsheet becomes too much for your test team to manage, you may want to start looking into a Test Management Solution. Here we [...]

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Top Tips For Your Curriculum Vitae

Published on November 14, 2011 in Archive

What follows is my personal view of hiring Testers with some hints and tips on how to put forward an excellent CV to help get the job you want. The views and opinions will be different to other Hiring Managers, but I hope that some of the advice may help you understand a little more [...]

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7 Changes Scrum Made To The Tester’s Role

Published on November 14, 2011 in Archive

In the last decade, Agile methods went from quirky and novel to essentially standard practice. Scrum has been of the strongest proponents of the agile methodology throughout, but one question remains. How have methods like Scrum altered the tester’s role in development organizations? Ulf Eriksson from ReQtest, the on the cloud bug tracking and requirements [...]

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Mobile Testing – That’s Just A Smaller Screen, Right?

Published on November 14, 2011 in Archive

Introduction There is no denying that mobile phones, smartphones in particular, are hot these days. Mobile phones have become an essential part of daily life, and as an essential part of life, they also need to be reliable, secure and easy to use. Imagine if the alarm on your phone didn’t go off in the [...]

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The Growing Cyber Threat And The Tester’s Call To Arms

Published on November 14, 2011 in Archive

I talk to a lot of testers about where they should focus their professional development. There’s no simple answer of course— it’s a personal choice but it’s still a good conversation to have. Given our profession is so broad and individuals so different, a lot of ideas come up. When discussing what particular areas testers [...]

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BitbeamBot: The Angry Birds Playing, Mobile Testing Robot

Published on November 14, 2011 in Archive

Can your robot play Angry Birds? On an iPhone? Mine can. I call it “BitbeamBot”. It’s a creation that’s been about ten years in the making. As originally conceived, it was just an art project for fun. As I built it and gave it more thought, I came up with a much more practical application: [...]

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