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Software Quality

The Quality Mountain

Every product team knows that it can be an uphill struggle to scale their product to where it needs to be, and that hiring a dedicated tester may not be top priority in the early days of a business. The information you get from good testing should be thoug...

Software Quality, TestRail

Less Checking – More QA!

There is plenty of discussion about the important distinctions to be made between checking and testing activities. Checking is an activity to be performed using tools and automated tests; but for testing we need a human mind. And it becoming increasingly im...

Programming, Software Quality

Testing Tools in Python

Python offers several several robust testing libraries, from unit testing and mocking for integration tests to security, load, and UI testing. We have reviewed several libraries and have chosen to share these for their ease of implementation, ease of use, a...

Programming, Software Quality

How I Learned to Build a Test Suite

Like most testers, I learned to build my first test automation suite through trial and error. My choices for language and tooling were directly related to the strengths of the development team, as I was learning programming and test automation skills simult...

Software Quality

Two ways to Provide a Better Testing Service

I read a question on one of the software testing subreddits a few weeks ago. The company this person worked for had a process where developers were responsible for writing very detailed test procedures, along with annotated screenshots. Those procedures, an...

General

Is Your Testing Arresting?

Was the testing you did today beautiful? You know, that testing where you copy-pasted Lorem Ipsum into every text box in your application in turn over three long hours? Hmm. But have you ever seen any beautiful testing? I mean, can testing even be beautiful...

General, Interviews, Software Quality

21 Questions to Ask When Being Interviewed

When you attend an interview you expect to be judged based on your answers to questions the interviewer asks you. But did you stop to think about whether they’re also judging the questions YOU ask THEM in response?The questions you ask demonstrate cur...

Software Quality

Is Test Automation for Regression Purposes Worth It?

One of the major advantages for automation is that you can use it to perform regression testing. After having implemented, or attempted to implement, an automation strategy for multiple employers, I have learned the hard way that not everything makes sense ...

Software Quality

Manual Testing and Automation: Better Together

It can be hard to convince manual testers to open their toolbox and spend time outside of their comfort zone learning to write some automated scripts to aid them in repetitive tasks. Both manual and automated testers can benefit from some understanding of t...

General

TestRail & Ranorex – A Winning Combination

Ranorex provides powerful tools for testers to improve the quality of software applications with test automation software for desktop, web and mobile applications.Ranorex will become part of the Test Management Tools business that also includes TestRail by ...

Software Quality

3 Ways to Plan Testing

Test planning is an important skill for testers who wish to communicate the purpose and value of their testing in meaningful ways. When choosing a test planning strategy, it is important to consider the strengths that a strategy offers before implementation...

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