Katy Sherman, director of software engineering, Premier Inc., has created a virtual library on LinkedIn with her many articles addressing topics that relate to agile software development and the collaboration, or lack of it, between developers and testers during the agile process.

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Follow-up Q&A to PNSQC webinar with Clyneice Chaney

In our last webinar, Clyneice Chaney gave a comprehensive look at a topic she could spend hours talking about: Creating an effective test strategy. Due to time constraints, not all the attendee’s questions could be answered, but we’re sharing the responses now.… Read more

Bhushan Gupta has dedicated his life to frustrating the bad guys--you know them as hackers, but to Bhushan they are the enemy. But in his Sept. 7 PNSQC webinar with host Phil Lew, Bhushan will discuss his battles with another enemy--poor testing strategies. He will discuss how most web application security testing efforts don't yield a high level of confidence and sense of security in a developer’s mind. He’ll tell us what happens when a tester’s confidence wanes further when, short on resources, time and support from above, he is confronted by a bad guy obsessed with figuring out new exploits to hack your application.

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How many serious business plans do you suppose have been written around the themes of joy, happiness, and fulfillment rather than growth and profitability? At least one has been, by business founder/author Rich Sheridan, the guest on our August 16 webinar, hosted by Phil Lew. Sheridan’s popular nonfiction book, Joy Inc. – How We Built a Workplace People Love, describes his journey from disillusioned, burnt-out techie to the founder of a company where people love to work. He did it, he told Forbes in 2014, to save himself from a career of drudgery. “

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PNSQC's Phil Lew will discuss identifying the most critical software test cases and other issues designed to improve your testing process with special guest Clyneice Chaney. She will be a speaker at PNSQC 2017 in October.

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Penny Allen seeks challenges and appears to have done so ever since she left Lockheed Martin after an eight-year career in 2002. Her longest stint post-L-M has been three years, her shortest less than a year. Among stops along the way: DelTek, TEKsystems, Fiserv, Message Systems, Nike and now REI. She’s jumped all over the map in her quest to tackle something no one else could bring down, including spending nearly six years in Oregon. She’s still newly minted at REI, joining the team there as digital solutions engineering director last December.

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I have been hearing music in my head since I was young. As I learned more about music, I discovered more core facets of how to deliver quality software. And as I learned and applied software quality principles to music, I produced music with higher substance and quality. Coincidence? I don’t think so...

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Software testing wasn't even on Clyneice Chaney's radar when she got into tech 30 years ago. But when a testing manager's job came her way, she decided to take it. And it's been a long-lasting love affair.

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PNSQC volunteer Heather Wilcox has a passion for applying quality assurance best practices to an unlikely hobby: training wild donkeys so they can be adopted.

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Each year, PNSQC recruits volunteers to tirelessly read, edit, and mentor technical paper writers, to help bring abstract ideas into publishable content the author will be proud to show off. These reviewers are essential to maintaining the level of excellence we’ve sustained for now 35 years! PNSQC 2016 reviewer Jan … Read more