A properly performed impact analysis can significantly reduce the time required for testing. After all, if you know where exactly the changes were made in the web product, you do not have to spend a lot of time re-checking the entire product.
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Should We Focus on Finding a Critical Bug
There is a strong opinion that if a bug is difficult to reproduce, we shouldn’t spend a lot of time on it. It would be better to move on and check something else. However, some QA specialists spend lots of time looking for the causes of such a bug. Hence, they simply leave the testing process paused. But is there a middle ground for all this?
How to Manage an Effective Test Planning
Nobody ever wants to work with long and monotonous test plans. More and more QA engineers come to the so-called test planning methods which contain all the thoughts and ideas that the project team can and will certainly have while developing and testing software.
Requirements Testing: Criteria for Technical Documentation
When creating new software functionality, the analytical team creates certain technical requirements, and the QA department tests the product based on these instructions. And, of course, this happens even before the product reaches the end user. In this article, we will talk about the important points that you should pay attention to when testing software requirements.
Good Examples of Qualitative Communication between QA Specialists
A tester’s point of view plays a crucial role during the entire process of software development and software testing since it helps to not forget what users and developers think about all this. Further in this article, we’ll talk about the most illustrative examples of the way software quality depends on the tester’s communication skills.
What We Can Test in the Elements Tab
This material contains comprehensive information on what exactly we can test in the Elements tab in a browser whose main objective is displaying the page program code in the tree of DOM elements.
Applying PC Regional Settings during Localization Testing
Localization testing is a good and quite useful process that should be given maximum time. After all, the more users the software has, the more languages need to be included in its structure and you need to be sure of their correct and high-quality design (hence, this affects the success of the entire product)!
Software Testing Vices: Funny Examples of Root Causes
This article describes the most popular vices of testing that can somehow affect an entire career of a QA Specialist.
Best Software Testing Certifications in 2021
Certification of any activity is not only an attempt to diversify your portfolio but also a possibility to show your knowledge and skills to your potential employers. This article describes top software testing certifications in 2021 that can help you to find a job in QA.
Severity and Priority: Defects of High and Low Priority
Each defect contains a set of certain attributes such as severity and priority. Sometimes it’s not easy to understand the difference between these terms but still, every QA engineer should try to do this.
Basic Standards for Component Arrangement on a Website
Arrangement of objects in a particular system is one of the main aspects of the successful development and promotion of any website. The correct location of various elements makes a site user-friendly on one hand and the most effective for owners on the other. In the contrary case, the conversion decreases and the product becomes less popular, profitable, and relevant.
Test Personas You Should Not Work With
If you work at a company that develops software for users, then you should have definitely met such a concept as a test persona. Christine Jackvony, a famous QA engineer, gives us top 4 examples of test personas that you should never work with. So let’s analyze these imagined personas.
Continuous Integration and Software Testing
The continuous integration (CI) process is used by developers, specialists in automated software testing, and of course all those who are interested in the IT field have heard about it. Further in the article, we’ll talk about the main concepts and basic purpose of CI. We will analyze how it works and what tasks it performs!
What Is Test Coverage?
A level of software testing should be evaluated with the help of certain criteria, in the same way as many other activities. In software testing, such criteria are called QA metrics. This article will be devoted to describing such a testing metric as test coverage.
Rarely Used but Very Effective HTTP Request Methods
Usage of infrequent HTTP methods helps to generate good and effective test ideas when providing software testing services. Hence, web or mobile product will be checked as thoroughly as possible from the technical side. Further, we will talk about these methods specifically.
Bug Reports: When They Should Be Created and for What Purpose
When a team of testers finds a defect during software testing, they must create a bug report on it. Only bug reports help to make the bugs fixed. They can attract attention to defects since they can be hardly ignored or missed.
Tips on Selecting a Proper Contractor for Software Testing
This article describes several tips that simplify searching for a proper software testing contractor and make the process as good as possible.
Credible Sources of Testing Ideas
Any software tester should always look for new ideas for testing. A list below provides the 10 most useful sources of testing ideas that will be helpful when testing dynamic projects or completing separate tasks.
English for QA Specialists: How to Form Main Phrases
Sometimes it can be very difficult to form (or even just understand) sentences in technical English used in IT. Today, in this article, we will analyze how to correctly construct expressions which contain only nouns and technical concepts used by QA specialists when testing software on a daily basis.
What Shouldn’t You Do Working Remotely: An Example of One Day
After the beginning of global quarantine in many countries, people had to work from home. And, of course, on the Internet, there are a lot of articles on this subject. We decided to go by contradiction and talk about how shouldn’t people work from home.