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Five QA Must-Haves for Successful Software Project Implementation – By Yana Yelina
Being front and center in every software project, robust quality assurance (QA) allows developers to reduce time to market, mitigate risks, improve user satisfaction, and more. Below are five essential QA aspects that can help you proactively address the pain points...
What Does It Mean To Be An Agile Organization – By Annemarie Wolfrat and Hannah Price
You’ve probably heard of Lego, Adobe, Bosch, and Fitbit. Each company trades in different sectors, but they have one thing in common: they work in an agile way. These organizational giants not only practice agile with scrum masters and sprints, they truly embody the...
Why Security Vulnerability Assessments Are Necessary – By Akshaya Choudhary
Why Security Vulnerability Assessments Are Necessary The growing menace of cybercrime has necessitated vulnerability assessments and testing. They help organizations understand their security flaws and work toward mitigating them. To understand the immediacy of the...
Three Ways to Help Developers Embrace Testing – By Alissa Lydon
As a former member of the U.S. Women’s National Softball Team and a lifelong softball and baseball fanatic, I’ve always been fascinated by the shift. In softball and baseball, the shift refers to when infielders move away from their traditional positions (i.e., spread...
How Agile Principles Help in a Remote Working Atmosphere – By Tanya Kumari
“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.” This quote from the Agile Manifesto’s Principles is one of the reasons as to why most of the companies working in agile ways become more productive and effective. Teams that work...
Reaping the True Value of Exploratory Testing – By Rajini Padmanaban
Exploratory testing (ET) as a valuable technique to gauge the quality of a product under development has existed for a long time and has become invaluable in the quality journey of several products, large and small, over the years. Despite its long history, its...
Episode 19: Terri Avnaim – A Woman Who Leads Brave Conversations Women Who Change Tech
In this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Terri Avnaim, a Woman Who Leads Brave Conversations. Terri is the chief customer and marketing officer for Sauce Labs, and she loves creating marketing plans that are authentic to the brand and meaningful to...
7 Essential Quality Attributes for Your Test Automation Framework – By Iryna Suprun
A common problem in software is that developers and designers tend to concentrate on pure functionality and neglect quality attributes. These attributes are the famous “-abilities”: usability, reliability, portability, and so on. This statement is valid for test...
Thank you to our Premier Sponsor Sauce Labs!
We are excited to have Sauce Labs as our Women Who Test sponsor for STAREAST Virtual+! Join us Thursday, May 14 (1-5pm) and Friday, May 15 (1-4pm). The program will cover testing topics and will support women’s personal and career journeys and include content like:...
Building Levels of Testing in Software Development – By Jennifer Robison
If you've been a developer for any length of time, you will start to realize that we all bear scars from the struggles we've encountered. Some start to fade as time goes on. But there are those that will be red and gnarly for the ages. These start to define how we...
Episode 18: Jenna Charlton – A Woman Who Is a Champion for Accessibility and Inclusion
In this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Jenna Charlton, a Woman Who is a Champion for Accessibility and Inclusion. Jenna has been a tester for nearly a decade and is currently a Consultant at Coveros where she helps people do their jobs better....
To Be a Better Tester, Ask the Right Questions
Critical thinking is a core trait a software tester needs to succeed. Testing involves objectively analyzing facts to arrive at decisions; since we’re responsible for the quality of the product under test, this is an imperative skill for testers to build. However,...
Episode 17: Davar Ardalan – A Woman Who Vows to Improve Cultural Intelligence
In this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Davar Ardalan, a Woman Who Vows to Improve Cultural Intelligence. Davar is the Founder and Storyteller in Chief of IVOW, an early-stage startup specializing in AI-driven cultural content, aiming to make...
You Have Power to Break the Stereotype
I am a minority within a minority: I am a female, I am an Asian, and I am a QA. When I started my career in quality assurance, it did not take me long to realize there is a stereotype I was unaware of, which was that most developers are male and most QAs are female....
Episode 16: Cindy Peterson – A Woman Who Transforms Organizations
In this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Cindy Peterson, a Woman Who Transforms Organizations. Cindy is a partner at Peerless Partners, and her passion is helping companies solve complex challenges at the confluence of operational effectiveness,...
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