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Did you know that when it comes to redimensionalizing a multi-dimensional array in VBScript, you can only redimensionalize the last element (which is the columns) not the first element (which is the rows)?  This is true and can be rather annoying and limiting in scope.  Unfortunately you are stuck dealing with it so what this [...]

Recently the question “Are you scared of Change in Business?” was asked.  In my opinion, “Change” is a main ingredient to success; it is a very important and necessary component.  In order to be successful and advance with new technologies, economic variances and new industry requirements, regulations and/or transformations, a company and its leadership needs [...]

Tips on Being a Great Leader – Part 1 “Top 10 Leadership Characteristics” This is a topic that you could write a book on and there are in fact many books on leadership.  The idea of this blog is to create a short but concise blog series on this important topic.  As a manager in [...]

This blog article might seem to many people as a very basic topic and the content obvious. However I’m surprised at how often I still come across technology departments that do not have proper hardware environments for software development that maintains code integrity, security, isolation and Production similar configurations. Let’s discuss the basic high-level configuration [...]

VBScript is a very flexible scripting language that provides full programming capabilities for various implementations.  VBScript is the programming language used by QuickTest Pro, so when you are in the Expert View doing some advanced programming you will regularly create variables and use them to hold various data values.  All variables in VBScript are of [...]

This is the first part of my series on “What is QA really all about?”  I find that even today after all these years of sophistication in software development that organizations still don’t really understand what QA is really all about and what is truly involved in verifying that an application is ready for Production [...]

The Tester Interview I came across an interesting topic, it was a topic about what senior level QA Managers look for in hiring a software tester. I thought I would blog on this topic having numerous years of experience at the senior and executive levels (Director of QA, VP of QA, and President of ASI), [...]

Question: “Have you been involved in calculating the ROI on Automation testing projects. Generally it has been found that the right ROI can be achieved only in long term projects spanning 2-5 years. As it takes a long time to understand the application and then develop a suite of test scripts, which provides benefits in [...]

In addition to all the software development, test automation, management, leadership and configuration management…Shawn also does some custom website designs like this current ASI website and the following ones:  

Partial Company Reference List The following is a sample list of some of the big name companies Shawn LoPorto has either been employed at or provided senior consulting services to.  Services provided include Management, Leadership, Testing, Automation and Training on QuickTest Pro, Quality Center, WinRunner, XRunner, LoadRunner.