Methods and strategy have been my favorite topics since I started working in testing. It’s essentially engineering problem-solving. It’s both looking for efficiency and attempting to measure effectiveness. So, how do we develop a set of practices to solve our Software Testing engineering problems?
Has this ever happened to you: You’ve been testing for a while, perhaps building off of a branch, only to find out that, after all of this time, there is something big wrong. It’s a bad build and now you have to go backwards, fix something, and get a new build. Basically, you just wasted …
Productivity is a multi-headed beast. It’s a cocktail consisting of motivation, culture, collaboration, focus, goal setting, and time management, as well as controlling ambiguity to make one simple goal: keeping your staff working.
This is a very special issue of LogiGear Magazine. When we were putting together the Editorial Calendar for this year, we decided that instead of a technology issue, we would focus on the human side of quality and test engineering. We want to focus on individual Test Engineers and their jobs. We talked to a …
Having a fully-trained staff is essential to productivity, employee satisfaction, teamwork, and just getting the job done! This is a re-publishing of an article first published in September 2016. It’s a great topic to republish in an issue on testing as a job and the skills needed. At the time this was first published, the …
I was just recently at a company that had a beautiful test architecture, framework, and Cucumber with tons of well-automated tests. But there was no good test management on top of the Cucumber tests, and they did not do a good job tagging the tests. Although almost everybody on the team could write and maintain …
From expanding your skillset, to showing that you care, EI is crucial to great leadership. This is Part 2 of a 2-Part series. We are picking up the discussion of Emotional Intelligence from Part 1 in the June 2019 issue. After fully understanding Daniel Goleman’s model from Part 1 and references to his model, in …
Testing the Software Car. As usual with the LogiGear Magazine, we are tackling a big subject. With our goal of having single-topic issues, we have the ability to grab and disseminate as much information as we can related to a current topic that is interesting and also on the frontier of Software Testing. Some …
From automotive Software Testing standards, testing techniques and process, this article is an in-depth guide for those looking to transfer their existing skills to this exciting industry. For the Software Car, autonomous driving gets most of the hype, but most overlook the fact that there is so much more to Software Testing for the automotive …
Emotional Intelligence is largely seen as being more important than IQ when it comes to being a great leader. Explore the ways EI can affect both leaders and team dynamics in this first part of a 2 part series. Part 1 of a 2 – Part Installment “If you show people you don’t care, they’ll …