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Scandal at Mercury Interactive
NewsQuality assurance doesn't make the news very often... usually when critical and very visible software fails. But over the last few months, something has gone very wrong at top QA software company Mercury Interactive, maker of Test Director, Winrunner and Loadrunner.

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How to Investigate Intermittent Bugs
Test TechniquesI happened to be looking at an intermittent bug when I found this article on James Bach's blog. He gave me his kind permission to reproduce it here. I have a few additional comments that I added to the end of the article, but I think that it stands perfectly well as he wrote it.


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Gartner predicts 5.5% increase in IT spending in 2006
Newsbut against my personal expectations, they predict only 2% growth in 2007. If correct, this will have an interesting effect on jobs and software development.

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The Future's So Bright....
NewsLots of industries are looking a little pessimistic right now. With the increase in oil and natural gas prices, the ongoing war, the rise in interest rates, and the inevitable burst of the real estate bubble, there are genuine reasons to be worried. But in the software industry, and especially for QA, you'd better go out and buy some shades!

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Video Cards and Software Testing
Test PlanningATI and nVidia are THE two big flavors of video cards. But of these two, which is the best for software testing? Ordinarily, you might think that either types of chipsets should work just fine. But there are some factors that you should consider before deciding which test configuration to go with....

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Changes Coming
NewsQapow is getting a major facelift!

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More Trends In Software: Cost-Cutting in Software
News<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/story/0,10801,98227,00.html">ComputerWorld</a> is reporting that businesses and government are cutting software costs by consolidating servers and purchasing fewer licenses. How does this affect the software industry?

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Cheap Automated Testing 2
Automated TestingToday's article will be short but sweet. If you want to roll your own automated testing, I recommend using the scripting language Ruby. Why?

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I18N and L10N - Internationalization and Localization
Test Planning

My latest assignment involves internationalization and localization testing. Other QA'ers have been asking me where to go for information on testing I18N and L10N.

One of my favorite references is actually for developers... check out <a href='http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/index.html'>this page on the Sun website.</a>. It has loads of ideas about what needs to be changed and what is likely to break.



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Cheap Automated Testing (Part I)
Automated Testing

Lately I've been looking into automated testing with an eye towards "better, cheaper, faster".



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