Enterprise-wide software projects require help from everyone Launching enterprise-wide software is challenging for organizations of any type or size. These projects are complex and time-consuming, requiring a great deal of planning, resources and communication to execute. Fortunately, there are tried-and-true […]
Technical Debt: What it is and how to handle it Development shortcuts can be replaced by a more viable, long-term solution – but at a cost. If you have purchased or overseen software development, you have likely heard someone on […]
As testers, we should all be united in the effort to elevate the role of QA beyond simple black box testing – looking “under the hood” to understand what’s really happening within an application at the code level. You don’t […]
Quality Assurance prevents bad things from happening (also known as risk mitigation) which is essentially preventative maintenance. Just like your health, eating right and exercising regularly prevents future problems. Proper Quality Assurance is like “an apple a day” for any […]
In the previous two installments of our series, we looked at the reasons why treating automation as a “silver bullet” is a bad idea, and why using 100% automated testing is simply NOT possible. In this final edition, we’ll examine […]
In the first part of this series, we identified some of the myths being circulated in the QA community. My argument is that 100% QA Automation is not advisable and the need for Manual Quality Assurance will always exist because […]
The phrase “QA Automation” evokes many different thoughts from Performance and Load, to Regression and API testing, but what exactly is Quality Assurance Automation? Wikipedia defines it as, “the use of special software to control the execution of tests and the […]
Rivers Agile Founder and CEO, Ben Wilson, and Director of Quality Assurance Services, Keith Monahan sat down with TechVibe host, Jonathan Kersting, and Pittsburgh Technology Council President and CEO, Audrey Russo. Below is a transcript of the Rivers Agile portion of […]
