Today I wanted to touch on a pretty hot topic – an issue that has become quite relevant due to the current US presidential race in which jobs and outsourcing have taken center stage. When you typically think of outsourcing, you think of manufacturing jobs sent to China and virtual assistants in India – categories [...]
If you’ve never been part of a stressful software development project, you obviously haven’t been in testing for very long. So many of the world’s most cherished software products are the result of hours and hours of pure hell. It’s true, and you know it. See if you can relate to any of the following: [...]
At Testuff, we recently decided to look again and in-depth into our customer’s experiences. We wanted to understand how our clients came to use our product. What challenges motivated them to use our software? How did they learn about us? And most importantly, what was their level of satisfaction with Testuff software? An open line [...]
We see it all the time – people going back to school for continued training, extra degrees, and new workshops. The trend has become especially pronounced in this economy. With fewer job opportunities, people must work harder to distinguish themselves in a market that’s becoming more competitive every day. Some employees take it upon themselves [...]
In the quest to create powerful software tools for the market, development firms must rely on a diverse range of different departments. Marketing, sales, accounting, programmers, graphic designers, executive management, HR, and of course, the software testers. Seamlessly weaving in all of this input is not without its challenges. The more teams (and the larger [...]
Antoine de Saint-Exupery once stated that “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Truer words were never spoken. Although Antoine, who died in 1944, never had to work with software application testing tools in a world of perpetual evolution and changing consumer [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.” In the world of software testing management, this general axiom definitely holds [...]
In an earlier post, we explored the recent Apple map debacle, outlining how better software application testing tools coupled with better “tests” could have helped the tech giant avoid its major embarrassment. But today, I wanted to approach the situation from a slightly different angle. IT is one of the fastest evolving industries on the [...]
Apple traditionally runs a very tight ship. Its products perform as promised, and leaks about future releases are relatively rare. So when the tech giant does stumble, its missteps are very noticeable. I’m, of course, talking about the recent iPhone 5 mapping app debacle. One of the blogs that initially helped break the story received [...]
Like accountants and inspectors, software testers are part of that rare breed of professions in which our stamp of approval is the final word on what is acceptable. We check the developers’ work, locate bugs, recommend fixes, and go through as many rounds as necessary to ensure the final product reaches a certain standard. Once [...]
