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Why Is Unit Testing So Important for Developers?

Why Is Unit Testing So Important for Developers?

In this article, we will try to see why unit testing is considered so important that no programmer in the world can imagine the debugging process without it! Quality unit tests can significantly speed up the basics of development, verification, and even some of the work on functional requirements.

Is CI/CD Important for a Tester?

Is CI/CD Important for a Tester?

Today a software testing sector requires complete competence in TestOps and skills in developing qualitative automated tests from a QA engineer. It happens due to the rapid development of CI/CD and the importance of QA engineers’ work with pipelines. But why is CI/CD crucial for every tester today? Further, we’ll try to answer this question.

What Skills Are Needed for a Novice Tester?

What Skills Are Needed for a Novice Tester?

Before making the decision to become a tester, you should get familiar with the skills and competencies you should acquire first of all. This article will help you build a clear plan of your studying and understand what skills you should develop to become a successful QA engineer.

Can a Developer Become a Tester?

Can a Developer Become a Tester?

Both, QA engineers and developers, work hard to make the best software for users. Both these spesialists have their own tasks and responsibilities. But in some moments, it may seem that a developer can easily cope with tester’s duties. Is this really so, we’ll see in the article.

What Should Testers Do to Get Noticed?

What Should Testers Do to Get Noticed?

QA engineers’ work has the main difficulty: if they do they work properly, nobody will notice this. And it’s good that there are 4 methods to show managers a project efficiently and demonstrate to colleagues their part in the work to be done. Further, we’ll analyze them in detail.

How Should We Test Social Media Apps?

How Should We Test Social Media Apps?

Perhaps, nobody will deny the fact that social media have become a lifeline in today’s reality. Proper testing of a social media application is very important since even a not really important function that has not been properly tested can affect the work and business processes of thousands of people that depend on this application in some way.

How a Newcomer Should Test Web Accessibility with WAVE

How a Newcomer Should Test Web Accessibility with WAVE

Today web accessibility usually means nominal easiness to use websites and their perception by people that have some vision, hearing, cognitive or physiological problems. This article contains the main details of how to test web accessibility correctly and make useful fixes to make the application you are testing completely accessible and relevant.

5 Basic Questions Usability Testing Should Answer

5 Basic Questions Usability Testing Should Answer

As you know, usability testing is a special software testing technique that is performed with the involvement of real users. Its goal is to evaluate the performance of a web product as close as possible to real conditions. A lot has been said and written about this type of testing. In this article, we will look at five fundamental questions and answers to them, which usability testing must somehow correspond to.

Pros and Cons of XPath

Pros and Cons of XPath

In the traditional sense, XPath is similar to modern programming languages: a well-crafted XPath selector is easy to read, we can tell from its appearance what specific element is being referred to. This makes interaction with XPath extremely convenient, increases the speed of solving typical problems, and, consequently, minimizes the time for software development and testing.

Fiddler Classic: An Overview of Its Key Features

Fiddler Classic: An Overview of Its Key Features

There are many examples of various tools to monitor and analyze HTTP/HTTPS traffic on the software market, and each one has its own features. Fiddler software has become very popular among testers in recent years. Further, we will describe its main functions, used by testers on a daily basis.

Cause/Effect as a Modern Test Design Technique

Cause/Effect as a Modern Test Design Technique

Сausal analysis is a special testing technique that displays the inputs and responses of the system. This technique allows you to significantly reduce the number of tests, and pay enough attention to the more significant and vulnerable parts of the functionality.

Main Peculiarities of Kubernetes

Main Peculiarities of Kubernetes

This platform controls container loads, services, and also automates operations with them. It allows simplifying manual processes involved in deploying and scaling containerized applications.