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6 Bug Reporting Mistakes That Plague Developers (And How to Fix Them!)

Have you ever encountered a software snag that leaves you frustrated? Bugs often have a habit of showing up when you least expect them, possibly due to multiple reasons. The…
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How to build the ultimate QA Strategy

Across all industries, 71% of app users churn within 90 days. That's a large number of users deleting an app when it doesn't quite meet their expectations. But, by delivering…
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How Microservices Reinvent Quality Assurance Strategies

The idea of organisational agility is so tempting for modern businesses that it makes them actively engage in building microservices-based infrastructures. However, early adopters have quickly realised that structures with…
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Formulating a result-oriented strategy for Quality Engineering

To formulate a result-oriented quality engineering strategy, enterprises may require buy-in from the management and involve the integration of test automation, AI and ML, and greater collaboration among cross-functional teams.…
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Mobile Test Automation Strategy – Best Practices and Potholes to Avoid

The mobile app landscape is changing rapidly with an estimated revenue projection of $188.9 billion by 2020 (Source: Statista). The trend has permeated virtually every industry segment as users find…
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3 Tips to Negotiate the Best Software Test Estimations

Your client likely wants to know how long testing will take and how much it will cost. For small projects, test estimation can be fairly easy. For big projects, software…
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Software Quality Engineering – Because Quality Assurance is Not Enough

The quality of a product or service plays the all-important role in differentiating a successful enterprise from an also-ran one. In the highly competitive digital era, the choice for enterprises…
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5 Mistakes To Avoid In Software Testing

Testing is an essential part of the process, so why is it often rushed? Who should do the testing, and what relationships should be established? What is the root cause…
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How To Test A LED-Bar Longer Than The Eiffel Tower?

Ard Kramer & Dennis Schouten

When you arrive at Schiphol Airport and take the train Amsterdam, you may have seen a shining a LED sign 330 meters long! This bar informs train passengers: where the…
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Key Skills of A Agile Tester

From mutual funds to startups, big media to textile giants, every company is utilising technology these days and each one has their unique requirements for automation and software. While the…
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Define Your Test Strategy Because Agile Does Not Mean Unstructured

You can imagine a test strategy as a map. It should help you to easily find your place. You can manage even without the map; however, your journey can be…
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6 Things About Compatibility Testing Every Tester Should Know

Compatibility testing is a form of testing which enables the software developing team to deliver a perfect software product which works flawlessly irrespective of the intended computing environments. It also…
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Why We Need to Put a Lot of Effort Into Documentation in Testing

Some organisations initiate system implementation projects without documenting how existing business processes will be affected. In some cases, even the existing business processes lack documentation. Documentation in testing is something…
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Four Essential Elements in the IOT Software Testing

The IoT is growing fast and is poised to have a big impact on just about every market all over the world. For organizations to prepare for and truly benefit…
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Unconventional Wisdom V14: We Don’t Need No Stinking Requirements, Either

When the hair-afire call came in, for the next hour I talked my longtime colleague down off his metaphorical ledge. One of the world’s foremost quality experts, he’d been tapping…
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Get Started with Test Automation

When implementing test automation there are several things to consider, including: how much can we automate? which tool is right for us? can we justify the initial investment of time…
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The Best Usability Testing Methods to Use on a Regular Basis

Usability testing, although often overlooked in the process of software development, is a crucial process which assures quality and performance that meets even the highest of standards of future prospects.…
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Test Case Management Strategy – High Level vs Low level

Test Case Management The introduction of test automation has changed how test cases are captured. Many test teams manage test cases in the test automation code and no longer manage…
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Software Testing Myths – Challenging the Misconceptions of Testing

Software Testing is always looked at in a different way by the diverse companies that depend on websites, web applications, and enterprise applications for business operations in today's rapidly changing…
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Smart Fuzzing For Test-Driven Development (SFTDD)

Testing is divided into manual and automated testing. The long term goal is to increase the automated testing. Manual testing is possible to start with minimal prerequisites and it is…
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7 Mistakes to Avoid in the Performance Testing Life Cycle

When you do the same thing many times, you can start to make false assumptions about your work process—and testing is no exception. Sofía Palamarchuk discusses some common fallacies about…
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Quality Management Office: Let’s lead software Projects by Quality

Quality is one of the most important factors for a successful software roleout. I would like to share the idea of leading projects by quality and not by so called…
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Software Testing Requirements – Exploratory Requirements

One of the most challenging things in a project is our ability to understand and express (to ourselves and our customer) what we intend to do. This is one of…
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Test Sample Not Test Cases – Using Sampling in Testing

I have worked with statistical methods in testing since before the millennium, when I used it for determining quality of six-digit date updates (or in fact since when I studied…
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User Experience Testing For Mobile – 3 Keys to Testing for Real User Conditions

If your company is taking steps to be a more digitally engaged business, congratulations -- you're on the path to innovation and success. But when trying to deliver high quality…
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Striving For Zero Bugs On The Test Environment

Kevin Harris

As testers, the worst thing we can do is celebrate the bugs we find. But what's so wrong with raising bugs? Why did you not prevent the bug, or find…
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Myths Of Software Testing: Are They True?

Software Testing is always looked at in a different way by the diverse companies that depend on websites, web applications, and enterprise applications for business operations in today's rapidly changing…
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Testing Metrics: Pros, Cons and Planning A Software Testing Metrics Programme

Why do we need metrics? When you need to communicate the results of your testing, specially as you start interacting with managers or with peers who don’t have a lot…
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Software Testing And Air Warfare

When I read this year’s EuroSTAR Conference theme - “Learning to test, testing to learn” - I thought about the possible most important thing I’ve learned through my testing career…
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Unconventional Wisdom V3–Testability Trap

Unconventional Wisdom “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” – Will Rogers Welcome to my Unconventional Wisdom blog. Much…
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What Makes A Great Testing Consultant: Lessons from the field

A new engagement is a time of reflections, learning’s from the past with a resolve for the future. Over the last decade while working on testing assessments with consultants who…
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Pair Testing: Testing With Non-Testers

It’s an all-too-familiar scene. You’re approaching the end of the current sprint. You’ve had some difficulties and delays along the way, but aside from completing the testing of the final…
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What to Do When There Isn’t Enough Time for Testing

When I started in my current job last year, it brought positive changes and new challenges. I went from testing big and complex bank and financial systems, to testing apps…
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Startup Series: Why you should test at your startup

How do you know what to build? My startup is not very big, nor does it have many resources. We want to prove that our product has a market, and…
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G(r)ood Testing 10: User Centred Risk based Test Stories

Last month I wrote about a revised approach for obtaining a test strategy. I explained a three-step approach in which we first defined persona’s and then searched for features that…
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The Cost of Software Testing

Every decision we make, including in testing has economic benefits and costs but what is the economic cost of software testing? The Economics of Testing What makes us professional? I’ve…
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Software Testing Reports: Why Your Testing Reports May Be Costing You

If QA teams don't make the most of their reporting efforts, they will squander a golden opportunity to enhance the quality of their software development practices. The reporting phase of the…
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Test Case Design Techniques: How Can Flowcharts benefit testers?

Flowcharts have been around a while but the benefits for testers of flowcharts has yet to ascertained. In this post we look at how flowcharts can benefit testers and test…
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Forget your waistline and get your data in shape in 2015!

We all make New Year’s resolutions usually when we’re nursing hangovers, full up on turkey and mince pies and feeling a couple of stone heavier! But New Year resolutions don’t…
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Test Automation: How Flowcharts reduce cost and improve efficiency, making complete testing a reality

Though testing is growing increasingly expensive, complete testing is not an unobtainable hypothetical. Recent Bloor Research concludes that a reluctance to prioritise improving the internal testing process reflects a short-sightedness on the…
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5 Tips for Writing Automated Tests

So you want to write some automated tests, eh? Here are 5 tips to help save you some time along the way. 1. Make a plan. Take stock of…
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Future of Software Testing Industry – The Saga of Technology Predictions

Science fiction writers thought processes are often very intriguing. While we might dismiss some of them as extremely hypothetical, several such hypothetical ideas have seen the light of the day…
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Developing & Implementing a Test Strategy

In a major IT transformation work, an agri-business Company wanted to design and implement common business processes in its Business Units(BUs), spread across 46 countries, to a common ERP platform,…
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The Test Strategy is Dead. Long live the Test Contract

The following article is a follow-up to a submission I put forward for EuroSTAR 2014. It explores part of my journey so far in software testing, and why I feel…
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Situational Testing

Jan Jaap Cannegieter, Roger Wouterse, Bart Fessl & Sven van Galen

Every organisation, every system and every project is different, so every test project requires a unique approach. Situational testing offers various forms of testing and allows you to complete your…
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Introduction to Test Strategy

Rikard Edgren

A good test strategy drives your testing effort towards the testing mission, and is specific, anchored, pragmatic, effective and possible to change. It might be your most important artifact, and…
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Thinking Strategically About Testing

Fiona Charles

To test software effectively, you need to have a strategy. That's true whether you are testing a minor feature, an entire application or an integrated suite of applications.
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How To Solve Testing Problems Without Solving Them

Bart Vrenegoor

We get challenged daily by all sorts of problems, like unstable test environments, unclear documentation or missing test strategies. These are problems we encounter very often! Luckily for us, it…
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Unburdening Testing – Finding the Balance Point for Test Documentation

Fiona Charles

Do you believe you have to produce too much documentation for your testing? Too little? Or just about the right amount? Do you find yourself mired in wasteful effort filling…
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Early Test Involvement to The Extreme – Merging Requirements Engineering and Testing

Anne Mette Hass

This webinar will present the expectation engineering model, where testers and requirements engineers join forces and use their skills to express the stakeholders' expectations in such a way that the expectations…
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