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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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.… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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.… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
Episode 8 of Testing In The Pub in here. Finally. In this new episode we interview The Test Doctor, a.k.a. Dan Billing on all things related to security testing. Security… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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,… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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. Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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… Read More +
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