The agile QA (Quality Assurance) process is a set of practices and methodologies aimed at ensuring that software developed within an Agile framework meets the desired quality standards. It aligns with Agile development principles, emphasizing collaboration,...
We’ve had a number of requests from our customers for improvements to the way in which users are administrated. In the past, it’s been difficult for administrators of large installations to manage all of their users and groups. So, we decided to...
Most of the measurement programs I have experience with are an attempt to capture every data point possible. The leadership at companies using large measurement programs were generally busy with things that kept them away from the development team, such as ...
I see more test automation projects that start and then are later abandoned, than started and subsequently celebrated for what they contribute to a software project. This generally starts with a complaint that it takes the QA group too long to perform regre...
Lots of people use the Christmas and New Year break as a time of reflection. I’ve certainly done so in the past and it’s a tradition I’ve tended to find extremely useful. Sometimes, it’s led me to make some life-changing decisions. M...
Throughout my career, I have been into agile and observed it first-hand. After being on this journey for almost a decade now, I have figured out over the years that being agile is about embracing an attitude more than any process or tools. Here are a few of...
Merry Christmas everyone! Celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with us all at TestRail Towers by coming back each of the 12 days of Christmas for a daily dose of testing awesomeness.In true advent style, we’ll be activating a different bauble...
We love to hear how our customers are using TestRail to manage and improve upon their testing efforts! So we were delighted to read this article from Intersections Joshua Gorospe about some ideas for combining model based exploratory testing with automation...
The TestRail team was proud to go live with our first webinar yesterday – “Skills for Agile Testers in a Modern Software Engineering Team.”, with special guest Jess Ingrassellino. Jess has been a long time contributor to the TestRail blog ...
Most testers don’t think much about test design techniques. They might be proficient with or really enjoy a handful of design techniques, domain testing or usability for example, and use those almost exclusively. This pattern lends itself to heavy cov...
I was happy for people to see personally the pain points of the installation process, because I wasn’t sure I was doing a good enough job of describing how challenging installation was in those first days. The frustration we all felt turned out to be ...
Paul Harju and I wrote a small web page in javascript as an exercise to help teach people test design approaches. The webpage has a text field and a button. The user can enter a string into the field, click the submit button, and then in the the website wil...
Many people want to teach themselves to code. The problem is that there are hundreds of resources, and it’s difficult to judge what works, and what you need. Knowing how to break a complicated subject down into smaller pieces, and how to connect abstr...