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Financial Services SIG Report: Dinner and Panel Discussion

On the evening of Tuesday, January 24th, the AST's Financial Services SIG organized a free dinner and panel discussion for NYC's software testers. Sponsored by AST, Liquidnet, and QualiTest, about 40 people showed up to meet and network with peers, enj...

Acceptance Test Driven Development is About People Working Together

I spent a majority of my early career testing in a siloed waterfall team. I didn’t know there were other ways to develop software. I assumed this was the way everybody makes software. Some product team from on high writes PRDs (product requirements d...

An Explorer Inspired by a Buccaneer

This article is a little different. I’d like to share a more personal, real-life experience about how I left my regular testing job for more freedom, experience, autonomy - and less pay - at least for the time being. If you’ve ever considered leavi...

What being a Context-Driven Tester means to me

I guess it’s that time again.  What time is that, you ask?  It’s the time when discussion/debate flares up over Context-Driven. I’m not going to weigh in on the whole discussion of pros/cons, value/distraction, etc.&n...

International SPIES in Testing

By: Nancy Kelln The complexity of translation testing is often overlooked. In past projects I’ve heard – “All we need to do is check that everything is in French and there is no missing content on any of the pages”. Ha! If only it were that ...

The Road Ahead…

By: Benjamin Yaroch At the start of each New Year, some people like to make resolutions or set goals for themselves. While I am not one for resolutions, I do want reflect on this past year and discuss the year ahead in regards to software testing. O...

Skype Coaching with James Bach

By: James Bach I’ve been offering testing coaching sessions over Skype (via instant messaging) for the last year, now. I’ve done more than a hundred of them. Coaching over instant messaging presents some interesting challenges. One challenge ...