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A False Dichotomy of Modern Testing

You’ll often see questions about the practice of software testing that essentially boil down to this: “Which is better: manual testing or automated testing?” This is how many engineering managers do view the world and while they may throw in more words, what they are asking is that question. And.

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Making Do When You’re Understaffed for Testing

Are you feeling spread thin when it comes time to test your application? Is your team missing deadlines and pushing back releases to validate your product? This is a common feeling. It manifests itself in many ways.For example, picture the following scenario. Your team is understaffed. You can’t get through.

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What is Build Verification Testing?

Build Verification Testing is basic testing performed on every new build to make sure that it conforms to what is required of it before being passed to the testing or UAT team for further testing. This procedure can also called Build Acceptance Testing or Smoke Testing and is a measure.

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Move fast, and test, test, test things

Mark Zuckerberg famously advised people to move fast and break things. It sounds good on paper, until you move so fast that one of your software bugs shares 14 million users’ most private thoughts.Real pros move fast, typically by using a DevOps pipeline. They also break things, but they spot.

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Big picture QA testing skills foster better app usability

As companies wrestle to fit QA into budgets, keep in mind the skills that human testers provide -- from customer satisfaction to disaster prevention. The 2011 book The Lean Startup by Eric Ries changed the way many companies pursue value, and that approach can lead them to slash the QA.

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Test Automation Is Still Testing, But Don’t Go At It Alone

Running automated tests that cover unchanged areas of the software, frees up time and resource for running manual tests that cover new or changed features in the software. This is not essential but it can drastically help to improve the overall test coverage. A variety of scripted manual tests and.

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Testing a Software Rewrite

Suppose we’re looking at a system rewrite where the stakeholders have none of the original engineering documentation. (This isn't surprising; documentation becomes obsolete—or even misleading—as the system changes, and corresponding docs don't get updated.) What can we do? Here are some tactics to use—and risks to anticipate—when testing a system.

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Codeless and ML-Based Automation vs. Traditional Test Automation

There’s no doubt that the test automation space is undergoing transformation. Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are being leveraged more and more as part of the test authoring and test analysis.While the space is still growing from a maturity stand-point, it is a great time for.

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What to Put in a Smoke Test

The term "smoke test" is usually used to describe a suite of basic tests that verify that all the major features of an application are working. Some use the smoke test to determine whether a build is stable and ready for further testing. I usually use a smoke test as.

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