QA Consulting

2
Sep

Severity and Priority of a Bug: What’s the Difference?

Every error (serious discrepancy between the real and expected results of software behavior) has particular attributes: “severity” and “priority” with numerical or alphabetical values. But not everyone can say exactly what is the difference between these two notions. Severity corresponds more to the technical side of the matter and priority – to the managerial side. To make this clear, we

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29
Aug

Why Is It Important and Relevant to Execute Volume Testing?

Volume testing plays a very important role during the thorough and effective checking of any software. This check allows us to understand how the software behaves when it needs to process a very large amount of information.

28
Aug

Virtual Machines and OS Emulators

In the process of testing the web products, it’s very useful and sometimes even crucial to use various virtual machines and special emulators, which help to simplify the process of software testing.

27
Aug

Principles of Test Design for API testing

Let’s imagine that QA department, QA management has the task to perform API testing of a web component. And from now on, numerous questions arise: from – what exactly should be tested? to – what components should be tested? The functional part? Usability?

23
Aug

Environment Setup for Performance Testing

Software performance testing checks the quality of web product and its capability to work consistently and without failing in a certain load environment. It is extremely important to monitor that testing is executed properly and testing environment doesn’t generate critical errors, which in real-world could threaten the usage of the developed software.

21
Aug

10 Main Problems and Challenges Faced by QA Specialists

Career challenges and problems are quite natural and useful things. A specialist can deal with it quickly and effectively only when he/she takes it as a matter of course and opportunity to succeed through the ranks. We made a list of top 10 problems faced by any tester on projects anyway.

20
Aug

Peculiarities of Web Page Testing

Any website is a particular combination of web pages, which are logically combined between each other. Properly structured website is the main key to qualitative and efficient promoting a chosen business model.

16
Aug

Key Features of Database Testing With NoSQL

Somehow we haven’t noticed the time when SQL became out-of-date and not so relevant programming language. As a result, a lot of NoSQL solutions appeared on the network, instantly replacing the SQL language and the parameters of the relational data storage model.

14
Aug

Smoke Testing and Sanity Testing: Concepts and Main Peculiarities

Smoke testing checks software performance and stability without the need to execute thorough tests in the future. Sanity testing is performed after smoke testing. Any defects that were found at such an early stage can save a lot of time on unfinished build verification.

13
Aug

14 Great Google Chrome Features Every Tester Should Use

Google Chrome, one of the most popular browser, has simple functionality, easy graphical interface, and constant performance. It can do special things without any additional enhancements which aren’t so well known, but can be very useful (especially for QA specialists).