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Mistakes That Could Lead to a Tester Losing His/Her Job
This article is dedicated to analyzing the reasons a person may easily lose his/her job even if he/she is executing his/her responsibilities properly, and suggesting the tips to make this never happen to you.
Choosing a Tool for Writing Test Cases
Why is this stage so important in the testing process – to choose the right tools? It helps to make the process more optimized and organize work clearly and more consistently. In the end, all these factors make a good influence on the final result.
Professional Development of the Tester That Has No Automation Skills
The software testing field has such a stereotype: the best way to develop as a QA engineer is to gradually study automation basics and related technics of web software testing. But, actually, it’s not true. Today there are numerous specialized fields of professional development, numerous job openings for popular roles, and positions that are valued in the same way as automation.
Windows Console and Its Most Common Commands
A lot of Windows users have been using this console for a long time. But they don’t even know about all the useful features of its commands.
Best CMS Platforms in 2020: Definition, Types and Aspects of Testing
Content Management Systems – it’s the platforms that become more and more popular every day thanks to its constant improvement, simplicity in product development and management of pages, blogs, websites of various target groups. To make the quality of the products you are creating really high, it’s important to test them in time.
QA Engineer Interview: Common Questions and Correct Answers
A job interview with an HR manager is quite an important moment in professional communication that decides if a person will get this job in the software testing company or not. In the article, we’ll analyze the most useful moments that will help to get a job as a tester right after several special interviews.
What Should We Do If We Found a Defect in Production Environment
This article is dedicated to describing the actions that will help a tester to eliminate bugs in a production environment and gives some tips on the ways to prevent their appearance in the future.
Principal Methods of Software Testability
Any quality assurance organization faces the necessity to perform preliminary analysis in its daily routine. Testability dynamics along with analytical components allows making a process of preliminary test evaluation more effective and correct.
All About Hidden Folders and Files, Their Role in Software Testing
There are a lot of hidden files and folders on every PC. Fortunately, these access restrictions can be easily bypassed. However, you should, first of all, understand why they are set and is it really necessary to make them visible during testing.
A Proper Way of Writing a Test Case Topic
A test case is the main document of a tester, that describes step-by-step actions, needed for testing a certain product or its functional capabilities that will lead to the result you are looking for.
Testers’ Excuses That They Should Stop Making
Software testing is a very important and honorable activity but sometimes testers are taken for granted by a software quality assurance company. Only in case if a QA engineer implements main principles of extreme engagement and constantly eliminate all possible excuses from your everyday work, he/she may become an important part of the whole development and software testing team.
Complete Checklist on Software Usability
The process of testing should be always supported by a special document that should contain all possible tests (from complete testing of the layout to functional testing of mail servers and database).
Planning Poker When Developing and Testing Software
If you ask an ordinary person about poker, you’ll hear that it is a card game that based on the ability to think many moves ahead, stay focused, and bluff in a convincing way. But actually, we can use poker in an office, for example, in a software developing and testing company.
Front End Testing With Adobe Photoshop and PerfectPixel
This article is concerned with the analysis of particular tools that are used during the testing of the website coding. We are talking about the verification of the conformity of the deployed website design and its layouts.
Main Attributes of Software Quality
In this article, we will talk about how we can identify the level of software quality in the IT-sphere to make it as clear as possible. Every attribute of the product quality can be used to measure its performance, for quality assurance and quality control.
Useful Tips on How to Develop Competencies and Skills of QA Engineers
The members of a QA department, both manager and junior quality assurance engineer, should constantly develop their skills, gain new knowledge.
Bug Clustering
Bug clustering is one of 7 main testing principles and it’s not just a theoretic term as it seems. Most testers who have real experience working on the projects will confirm this statement.
5 Useful Books on Software Testing
What to expect from the work if you’re an IT specialist and we get new information all the time? Everyone should be ready for constant professional self-education and self-development. And obviously, the best assistant in these processes are books.
Static and Dynamic Testing
Static testing is considered as an important stage of bug-free software development. But we shouldn’t forget about the importance of dynamic testing. While testing the software (its performance, functionality, reliability), a team can check the quality and performance of the developed product.