Nine Tips to Encourage Collaborative Testing

 

Collaboration among software testers effectively brings another perspective to early software evaluation and helps create an environment ideal for testing multi-user scenarios, permissions, security, custom configurations, integration, and cross-platform and cross-product workflows. In addition to providing additional opportunities to uncover bugs, it provides a chance to share product knowledge and testing techniques.

Given these advantages, why isn’t more collaborative testing being done? Because most testers don’t fully understand the value of collaboration, and most companies don’t know how to entice them to participate. Only by spelling out the benefits for testers and clarifying the value you place on their time and talent can you draw them in. This presentation will cover nine ways to make it happen, with real-world examples based largely on the presenters experiences at Adobe.

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Lanette (lanette.creamer@gmail.com) is quality lead for Adobe Systems, where she coordinates cross-product testing events for the company’s Creative Suites. She has 10 years of software industry experience.