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From innovative testing techniques and best practices to emerging technologies and case studies, we provide actionable knowledge to empower your QA journey. Stay informed, inspired, and ahead in the ever-evolving world of software testing with TestMatick’s official blog.
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.
