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• How useful is code coverage?

  In this first of a two-part series about code coverage, software consultant Mike Kelly explains code coverage and gives a specific example of how code coverage was calculated on a small program using the tool rcov for Ruby. Continue Reading

• Tips for interpreting JMeter results

  Interpretation of results from performance test tools is complicated. Learn how to interpret data from your JMeter Listeners using scatter charts, and by using the Aggregate Report Listener and the Monitor Results Listener. Continue Reading

• Mobility testing: Five challenges and how to address them

  Smart phones and other mobility devices continue to grow, as do challenges with mobile testing. This tip addresses each of these challenges with advice on how to best overcome them. Continue Reading

• Software testing from the ground up

  Where do you start when asked to test software? In this tip, SSQ contributor Matt Heusser talks about the tutorial he is delivering at STPCon with Pete Walen about software testing from the ground up. Learn about quick attacks, domain analysis and ... Continue Reading

• Mobile applications: Testing and monitoring using SaaS solutions

  Quality and performance monitoring in the world of mobile devices and mobile applications is an important topic for developers. This story discusses new mobile apps, highlights comments from the companies that offer them and examines the advantages ... Continue Reading

• Software testing: Why test metrics programs fail

  “Most testing metrics are internally focused, and this is one of the primary reasons for these programs to fail,” says Infosys leader Vasudeva Naidu. In this tip, Naidu describes this and other issues and gives four golden rules of testing metrics ...Continue Reading

• Mobile Web applications: Monitoring test triggers

  Learn how to build out a system for monitoring test triggers for mobile Web application and its supporting systems.Continue Reading

• Mobile application testing: Cost effective strategies

  This second installment on mobile app testing will outline an initial cost-effective strategy for shrinking the problem space and establishing feedback mechanisms to change scope over time.Continue Reading

• Mobility application testing: Mobile devices on a budget

  Mobility application testing on a budget can be problematic. When a large company takes on an initiative to deliver its first mobile app to its users in the field, the testing problem space can get large in a hurry.Continue Reading

• Mobile testing: Nine strategy tests you'll want to perform

  Mobile applications are becoming increasingly prevalent, but testing them can be a challenge. Learn nine tests to include in your mobile testing strategy, producing high-quality apps.Continue Reading

• Trends and innovations in software testing

  Read about trends in the way we conduct software testing and communicate as well as innovations in learning and teaching.Continue Reading

• STAREAST: Agile testing and defect tracking

  Defect tracking systems (DTS's) are often used in application lifecycle management (ALM) to keep track of the bugs found during software development. In this tip, Agile expert Lisa Crispin talks about the pros and cons of using a DTS and ...Continue Reading

• Overcoming the challenges of cross-site scripting testing

  Cross-site scripting (XSS) is the most common security vulnerability in the Internet today. In this tip, security expert John Overbaugh will explain what XSS is and will show techniques to test for these types of attacks. By using a combination of ...Continue Reading

• Tips for application testing on mobile devices

  Mobile and touch screen devices promise new directions of features, and, along with that, new failure modes and risks. How then, should we test? Matt Heusser shares his experience and some reminders about important considerations when testing mobile...Continue Reading

• Effective test-driven development and continuous integration

  Units tests were born in small programs with fast feedback loops -- yet as programs grow in size and scope, the time it takes to execute every unit test with each continuous integration build can be tedious. In this tip, Matt Heusser explains ...Continue Reading