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Software Testing Bowl 2019

Software Test Professionals is happy to announce the Software Testing Bowl 2019 sponsored by Inflectra at STPCon Spring 2019 in the San Francisco Area on April 2nd starting at 6 pm. Join other testing professionals in a friendly test competition and possibly win some fabulous prizes! This competition is open to all testing professionals and […]

Workshop: Critical Thinking Skills for Testers – Part 2

Some bugs are obvious. Every test must have an expected, predicted result. Effective testing requires complete, clear, consistent, and unambiguous specifications. Repeated tests are fundamentally more valuable. Testers should never make assumptions. Experience is the best teacher. People shouldn’t argue about semantics. Test automation saves time for exploratory testing later on. If you’re a tester […]

Workshop: Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing – Part 2

Why do we test? What’s the point? We test to develop a comprehensive understanding of the product. We test to find problems that threaten the value of the product, or that threaten the on-time, successful completion of any kind of development work. We test to help the business, managers, and developers decide whether the product […]

Workshop: Critical Thinking Skills for Testers – Part 1

Some bugs are obvious. Every test must have an expected, predicted result. Effective testing requires complete, clear, consistent, and unambiguous specifications. Repeated tests are fundamentally more valuable. Testers should never make assumptions. Experience is the best teacher. People shouldn’t argue about semantics. Test automation saves time for exploratory testing later on. If you’re a tester […]

Workshop: Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing – Part 1

Why do we test? What’s the point? We test to develop a comprehensive understanding of the product. We test to find problems that threaten the value of the product, or that threaten the on-time, successful completion of any kind of development work. We test to help the business, managers, and developers decide whether the product […]