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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 [...]

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 [...]