The Most Common Mistake in the Bug Life Cycle
Don’t forget this key step when debugging software The bug (or creature on Earth for that matter) with one of the shortest life cycles is the Mayfly, who, after transitioning into the adult stage of its lifespan, typically reproduces and then dies within just 30…
How to Optimize Test Coverage in the Long-Term
Our method for improving test coverage over multiple test cycles We want to test as much code as humanly (or mechanically) possible right? Yes and no. For each test cycle, it’s important to consider multiple strategies for measuring test coverage and to put a system…
Yoda’s ‘The Way of the Jedi Tester’: A Guide for Agile Testing
Yoda’s Software Testing Principles for Thriving in an Agile Environment Did you know there’s more than just one force? Yes, there’s the one that has to do with the connection of all living beings, but there is also one within software known as quality. An…
The Software Testing Wheel
What are the different factors of software quality and how do we test them? Software quality… sounds vague, doesn’t it? We made a fun software testing wheel to depict all of the parts that make up the “whole” when we mean software quality. According to ISO…
Validating Modified Data in Test Automation
The importance of validating modified data in automation In test automation of any kind, we end up automatically simulating (with a tool or with a fragment of code) the action that a user would execute on the system (in the broadest meaning of the word…
Designing Performance Tests With a Little Bit of Futurology
Futurology: noun, systematically forecasting the future, especially from present trends in society I’m not going to lie, I can’t predict the future. I don’t even know what I am going to eat for dinner most days, but in testing, sometimes we have to put our…
The Career Path of A Software Tester: An Infographic
A look at the potential career path of a software tester in 5 steps A question that everyone has when starting out in testing is: What kind of future career can I have? Some career paths or job positions lead to dead ends in which…
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