150+ Perfect Ice Breaker Questions for Work

Ice Breaker Questions

Looking for good Ice Breaker questions to try with your team and build a better workplace? Read this hand-picked list of the best Ice breaker Questions to transform your team tremendously:

Your team is perhaps your business’s greatest asset, so you want to treat them right and ensure they get along. After all, teamwork is integral to any organization’s success. Now, there are many in-house activities that one can employ to foster better team relationships.

From my experience, the best way to accomplish this is through ice-breaker questions. It isn’t just me though who holds ice-breakers in high regard. A recent study by the International Journal of Social Service and Research found that ice-breakers made students in a school setting feel more comfortable and connected with their peers.

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Tips & Topics to Deliver an Effective Presentation to QA Team

Deliver an Outstanding QA Testing Presentation

If you have doubts about how to prepare and deliver an effective QA testing presentation to your team, make sure to read this article till the end.  Presenting your knowledge, experience or simply sharing useful information is neither an art nor magic. In fact, it is a skill developed through …

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Leadership

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Leadership in Testing

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What Is Cost Of Quality (CoQ)? Cost Of Good & Poor Quality

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QA Lead Roles and Responsibilities

qa team lead

In this article, we will understand your expectations from the QA Team Lead. Let’s get started. When a topic, especially a process-based one (For example: Creating a traceability matrix or test documentation review, etc) is discussed, the immediate question I get is: “Who does this? The QA lead or the …

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5 Levels of CMM (Capability Maturity Model) and QA Processes

How to Achieve Level 5 Maturity for QA and Testing Process

This tutorial explains what are CMM levels and how to achieve these CMM levels for QA processes – explained with the best examples. For any process, whether it is a QA process, development process, or any non-technical process, there are levels of maturity. By levels of maturity, we mean the …

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Test Documentation Review Process: Step-by-Step Guide

Perform Test Documentation Reviews

By now, we all know that for a tester, Documentation is an integral part of his daily life. There is an overload of testing artifacts that are created, reviewed, approved, used, maintained and distributed.  We always have clear-cut processes laid out for how to create a document, how to use …

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Team Building in Software Testing

Team Building in Software Testing

Just like software development, software testing also requires some important factors to develop and maintain that can contribute to continuous process improvement. One such significant factor is Team Building. While building the right team, the focus should be on certain key elements like Roles & Responsibilities, Knowledge Transfer, Domain Knowledge, …

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What Does SEI CMM, ISO, IEEE and ANSI Stand For?

What Does SEI CMM, ISO, IEEE and ANSI Stands For

? SEI = ‘Software Engineering Institute’ at Carnegie-Mellon University; initiated by the U.S. Defense Department to help improve software development processes.
? CMM = ‘Capability Maturity Model’, developed by the SEI. It’s a model of 5 levels.


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Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) in Risk Based Testing

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a Risk Management technique. If implemented properly, this can be a great addition to the best Quality Assurance processes to be followed. In this article, our goal is to introduce you to this Risk Analysis technique which in the end, is very useful …

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What is IQ, OQ, PQ Testing? 3 Qs Of Process Validation

Software Validation Process

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Onsite - Offshore Model of Software Testing (1)

The Onsite-Offshore model is a very common working method for many IT teams across the industry, especially the QA teams. The way this works is, one/more (depending on the magnitude of the project) of the service provider’s QA team member works along with the client at their location. The client …

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Poka-Yoke Technique in Software Engineering with Examples

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Software Engineering is a discipline that aims at producing high-quality software through a systematic, well-planned approach to software development. It contains many good practices, following the standards to achieve the quality product. The three main phases of Software Development are Analysis – Design – Implementation. To accomplish high-quality software, it …

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Software Quality Attributes in Software Engineering

Software-Quality-Attributes

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