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If implemented properly, the Quality Center will become an incredible resource for all your testing information in your test team and become the core for your test strategy & methodology.  Because of this it is extremely important for you to protect this information with not only proper security but to backup this information in order [...]

If your business is on the internet, then you need to be concerned with how your website looks on the various browsers that are currently available to users.  You never know what browser a user is going to use to view your website, and if it doesn’t look good then they will leave and you [...]

I have always used the Quality Center which is not open source and rather expensive but the best test management tool out there offering many features other than just defect tracking.  But if you can’t afford it then the two open source defect tracking tools I know of and have used that are good and will [...]

In an ideal environment all the defects found in a release would get fixed before the project went live in Production.  However with today’s fast paced businesses, projects are typically defined for a specifc delivery date with very little to no room for date extensions.  This is largely due to having to meet a business [...]

System Testing and “End-to-End” Testing can be very similar but typically the difference is that with System Testing you are exercising the functionality of your application with how it interfaces with other components (applications) in your environment.  An examle of this is with data feeds, your app may send a data file/feed to another application [...]

Being able to access the Quality Center v10 from Windows7 running on a 64 bit system using Internet Explorer8 requires a little trick initially, but can be done.

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 [...]

An interesting Test Management topic came up on LinkedIn that I responded to and thought I’d expand on it on my blog site. The question was “How can a test manager provide an accurate estimation like time, cost, resources for the test case creation, testing like Functional, regression and system testing for a large project?”

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 [...]

This is 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 deployment.  As [...]