The Essential QA Blog

The number of mobile software in use has already been the same as a number of used web product on a PC. It means that the relevance of the mobile app testing becomes very important during the new product release.

An e-commerce is aimed to help to sell goods and services through the global network. External displaying of such websites (which do these processes) can be changed in some time, but their basic structure and functionality stay the same.

Nowadays there’re a lot of operating platforms: PC, portable console, mobile devices, and many others. Further, we’ll talk about a popular tool that helps to perform mobile game testing for one of...

Risk-based testing allows you to anticipate all negative scenarios of web product behavior as well as reduce the number of unwanted processes and situations. Such tests are a winning combination while working with difficult products that have huge business logic.

Usability testing is considered as the most important thing of any Internet marketing. At the sstage of software development such a test helps to understand if this product will be simple and easy to use which will affect its popularity among users.

Metrics help QA specialists to understand exactly which tests were performed, which functional blocks should be worked on more carefully, what to do in order to make a tendency to decrease the most common bugs; also they can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of both the entire QA team and its individual members.

Visualization techniques, specifically mind maps, allow you saving enough time while testing some product. They are easy to use, just like checklists, but have more illustrative examples.

Qualified understanding of principles of Linux operating system’s functioning for the tester is a skill, needed in a lot of specialized testing companies. No matter if you’re aspiring tester or you...

Every tester has technical experience on some stage of his/her professional development. And it is very useful to improve it all the time by new knowledge and technological skills, which not only...

What’s the Point? If we take any software and compare it with the living organism, we’ll see, that a bug (error, defect) – is a disease, which infects the body and causes certain harm. The...