Six Tips for Your Software Testing Career
Software testing is becoming more critical as the proportion of our economic activity that is dependent on software (and often very complex software) continues to grow. There seems to be a slowly...
View ArticleTesting pros need enough to write a test script
If there is one new skill every QA professional needs today, it is this: the ability to write a test script. The demand for testers who can write at least a little bit of code is the logical outcome of...
View ArticleHow to compete in a tough software testing job market
Recently, I was talking with a newly trained software tester who went for her first interview at a large well-known tech company. Getting the job was probably a long shot as the company is one where...
View ArticleGuiding principles for an automated software test
In recent conversations with software quality assurance pros, I keep hearing the same thing: Test automation projects are among the most demanding that any QA organization takes on. Following the right...
View ArticleThe benefits of exploratory testing in agile environments
Exploratory testing can help software testers keep up with the rapid development pace of agile software projects. The trick is figuring out where exploratory testing fits in agile projects. This tip...
View ArticleAgile exploratory software testing: Why IT inefficiency pays off
Giving development testers and operational bug-fixers extra time to break software can improve IT efficiency in an Agile organization. Agile developers and DevOps specialists use canned, pre-defined...
View ArticleGoogle Is Testing Chrome OS for Windows
Google is in the midst of an interesting experiment. The latest developer’s version of its Chrome Web browser for Windows 8 contains code which will ultimately allow users to run an operating system...
View ArticleHow to write effective Test cases, procedures and definitions
se has components that describes an input, action or event and an expected response, to determine if a feature of an application is working correctly.” Definition by Glossary There are levels in which...
View ArticleSizing up hardware resources to allocate to IT automation tools
IT automation tools impose serious software and hardware requirements, which change depending on your data center and the number of devices under automation. Automated IT tasks require real-time...
View ArticleSoftware testing techniques: Overcoming biases
How did I miss that bug? No matter what software testing techniques we apply, we have all asked ourselves that question. Here’s a surprising answer: As software testers, we miss bugs — even those that...
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