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Advanced Principles of Software Testing in 2022
When QA engineers perform software testing, it’s important to reach the best possible results and at the same time not deviate too much from the original goal. To make sure that you comply with the right strategy, you need to follow basic testing principles. Below we will talk about the 7 most popular and important principles that no software testing should be performed without.
Is It Possible to Train a Senior QA Within the Product Team? Practical Advice
Let’s say, for example, that in the company where you work, as a software tester, there are some middle QAs who want to develop further. What should your team lead do to help them become first-class seniors? Below are practical tips on how to properly grow senior QA within the product team and what challenges this entails.
10 Tips for Effective Exploratory Testing
Without a doubt, every tester-researcher needs to find not only a bug but also its essence. However, classical exploratory testing is much more than just a monotonous search for a problem. The following are 10 useful and time-tested tips on how exploratory testing can be helpful.
Advantages of a Bug Bash and the Proper Way to Complete It
We all know that a bug bash is a good method to implement multi-level exploratory testing. Such an event brings together employees from different teams and areas of activity. This reduces snow blindness and helps to benefit from the experiences and perspectives of many people.
Test Automation Strategies That Really Work
An approach to the development and implementation of automated tests for an application-in-test depends on numerous factors. A size and complexity of an application, a structure of a project team, instantly appearing deadlines, requirements for security, and many other details define the most suitable strategy. Further, we will describe some working strategies that can be helpful for any project that requires automation.
How a Tester Should Interact with a Product Owner
One way or another, all software testers have the common wish to make every future software user happy. This means that they need to learn how to interact with the product owner in any case. The following are 4 simple steps on how to set up such cooperation and profit from it.
Several Chrome Extensions Useful for Software Testers
Many testers around the world actively use Google Chrome since this is one of the most popular tools. Below we will describe its most useful and effective extensions, which can significantly simplify testers’ day-to-day work (with screenshots and cookies).
How to Create Exploratory Test Charters with CDMET
This article provides some resources to help you find interesting test areas and charters. They are also good for calculating perceived risks. Namely, we’re talking about such recources as CDMET – Conversation, Documentation, Monitoring and Earlier Testing. Let’s take a closer look at them.
What Is the Best Ratio Between Testers and Developers?
Sometimes you can meet the following question on specialized IT forums: what is the best ratio between testers and developers? You can use various ratios and each one will have either benefits or drawbacks.
Further, we will analyze some examples of them in detail.
Using Test Retries as a Method to Hide Bugs
Every tester is in some way familiar with the concept of randomly failing automated tests. An analysis of the results of these tests can be really time-consuming and some teams prefer running tests once again if they fail. But is this efficient? The answer is not as obvious and clear as it seems.
Why Do Bugs Occur in Software?
Is it possible to finally get rid of defects and other bugs in the software? Why are there so many of them and what’s the nature of their appearance? It is significantly important to understand at least the basic reasons of bug occurance to improve the process of software testing.
Measuring Mobile App Performance Metrics with MetricKit (Apple)
Software development and testing are very specific processes. Especially when it comes to performance verification, quick bug fixation and releases. In this case, the best option is metrics measuring tools. And today, we’ll talk about one of such tool for iOS – MetricKit.
Popular Demo Websites Used for Executing Test Automation
Demo websites are one of the most popular platforms to execute automated testing. They can be used to practice your skills and develop your own testing methods. Further, we will analyze them in detail.
Stages of a Bug Bash During Software Development
In software development, there is such a thing as a bug bash – an event when testing is performed by a QA team, developers, designers, project managers, and other specialists who are working on a product. This method helps to find additional errors if any. Further, we will analyze its main stages.
Software Load Testing: Its Main Features
It’s hard to imagine the modern world without numerous useful and convenient applications with beautiful and user-friendly interfaces. Let’s look behind a beautiful internal menu and try to understand the meaning of load testing. Also, we will describe the features of each type of this kind of web testing.
How Can We Increase Software Code Coverage During Regression Testing?
As we know, test coverage done while testing various types of software means the total basis of software code covered with a test suite. This article will tell about several methods of test coverage that help to improve general product regression.
How to Properly Prepare Software for Test Automation
Before you start performing automated testing, you need to make a short analysis of the software you are working with. The more prepared for automation the product is, the fewer issues you’ll meet in the future while developing automated tests. Further, we will analyze in detail the basics of how to prepare for this testing process.
What You Should Learn to Become a Tester: Quick and Useful Tips
If you wish to master the profession of a QA engineer, you should understand its basics and also be ready to dedicate a lot of time to learning material. Further, we will describe some useful tips on what you should learn to become a tester.
Using sqlmap for Software Security Testing
Security testing is the analysis of software vulnerability to all kinds of attacks. The task of this testing is to...
Trunk-Based Development: Features of the Process and Nuances of Testing
Trunk-based development is special control of versions, where programs integrate small parts of the update with the...
