Shoubhik Sanyal, a Certified ScrumMaster with ten years’ experience in test managing Agile projects across new media, online gaming, retail and telecoms explains why Agile testing is good for you, your business and your career.  For any business operating in competitive markets and challenging economic times, the quality and speed of software delivery can be the difference between success and failure. Now more than ever, business managers are painfully aware of the need to react quickly to market scenarios and so want to ‘get up to speed’ with the testing tools, applications and processes that are of critical strategic importance. So it’s not by chance.........

Can we learn from software testing failures in today’s world to improve it in the future? Geoff Thomson, chairman of the UK Testing Board looks into his crystal ball. Heathrow’s T5 software testing issues highlighted the importance of software testing, I hope that lessons have been learnt and that CIOs across the world will take note in the future. I believe that in the future will we see changes in six key areas of software testing: 1. Accurate information provision (in the language of the recipient) Software testing’s role is the provision of data to enable go live decisions to be made. If we get.........

Micro Focus has launched SilkTest 2010 and SilkCentral Test Manager 2010, its latest software quality products that it says are designed to proactively drive quality improvements across the entire software development life cycle. Organisations using Continuous Quality Assurance can improve software delivery time to market and eliminate defects at every stage of development, maximising the return on software investments with the new products according to the company. “The new SilkTest 2010 automated testing product release enables users to rapidly create test automation, ensuring continuous validation of quality throughout the development lifecycle. SilkTest’s support for automating Web 2.0 applications enables clients to move away from software.........