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Announcement, General, Webinar

TestRail Live Webinars for January 2020

It’s a new year, and the TestRail team is rolling out an enhanced series of monthly live webinars. In January, we’re offering two webinars: “Meet TestRail” on January 14, and “Starting to Test with TestRail” on January 1...

General

Do Testers Need to Be Technical?

Throughout the existence of the software testing profession, one heavily debated topic has been whether testers need to be more technical. The answer to this is highly subjective, but no matter how you feel, there are some factors to consider before focusin...

General

Why Do We Test? What Do Testers Really Do?

  I’ve asked the question Why do we test? many times of testers, developers and managers. The common, almost automatic answers include find bugs or improve quality. These seem reasonable at first, but let’s take a deeper look.

General

Fantastic Tests & Where to Find Them

  You get handed an assignment of strategic significance to the organization. You have never worked on this application before and the only information you have is what this change will do.You get handed an assignment of strategic significance to the orga...

General

Testing Big Data Applications

Testing big data applications is equally focused on evaluating and validating the data, the performance of the software, and the quality of the output that the software produces. Big data applications involve not only vast amounts of data but also analyzing...

Agile, General

What Is the Future for Agile Test Management?

In an agile organization, where managers facilitate teams, is there really a role for the test manager? Or the dev manager? Maybe not. I’ll offer three ideas for what you can do in a real agile organization.In an agile organization is there really a r...

Agile, General

Three Metrics Your Agile Team Should Stop Using

Metrics are supposed to help and support an agile team by providing useful information about the health and progress of their project. But not all metrics are always beneficial. Going overboard with them can sometimes cause more harm than good.

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