People. Individuals. Employees. Team Members. Testers. Employees are the backbone to success of any enterprise. Attitude & Skills are the two main ingredients to make or break an enterprise. In my 7+ years of IT career I have come across variety of professionals. With special affinity towards Software Testing Technology, let’s just talk about the types of Software Testers. Yeah! You should not be surprised to know that we do have different category of Software Testers? Seriously!
Tag: Testing Software
Testing != Bugs | The real purpose of Software Testing
Purpose, noun, the reason for which something is done. Recently a discussion was started by one of the Testing co-blogger at LinkedIn “What drives Quality Assurance? What is the purpose of Software Testing?” A relevant discussion indeed. They say “If you’re not working with purpose, you’re doing it wrong.” This triggered me to put on the thinking hat and pen down my perspective of ‘Software Testing Goals’.
Pseudo-Agile is a slow poison to Software Quality
Today most of the organizations are moving or have already moved to agile development and testing. Or at least they think so. Sprints and daily stand-ups are common. Everybody is talking about Scrum & minimum viable product. We are tracking the team velocity & burndown. We have cut down on the documentation & invested in working software. Everyone is focused on customer satisfaction by accepting change. But wait a minute! This is too-happy a picture to be true.
ClicAutomate | Empowering Manual Testers to do Automation Testing
The goal of every IT organization is to deliver a quality software to their clientele, and to complement their goal they give the highest priority to Software Testing. Automation testing acts as an accelerator to their time to market by saving time and effort, and manual testing will remain as the core for quality software delivery. In today’s changing technology landscape, Manual testers are being pushed to learn automation skills. But how? How to empower Manual Testers to do Automation Testing?
How to do Regression Testing | The Best Practices
Regression is one of the most Important yet Neglected Test Type. Let’s see what are the Regression Testing Best practices for a successful project delivery!
Selenium Automation Testing | How to Launch a Browser
What do you think should be the first script in our journey to learn Selenium Automation testing? Yeah! For any web-based testing, first & foremost you need to launch a browser and open the application URL. How? Let’s learn how to launch Chrome browser using Selenium Webdriver!
What is Waterfall methodology? The past of Agile!
Waterfall Methodology for Software development, introduced in 1970 by Winston Royce, is the pioneer of the SDLC processes. In fact it was the first model which was widely used in the software industry. Despite many new models being introduced, the Waterfall methodology is still the dominant process model. Additionally it is important to learn the know-how of Waterfall model in order to fully understand the emergence of Agile development methodology.
HTML Coding Basics required for Selenium Automation
Let’s learn how a webpage is rendered in a browser OR the HTML coding basics OR how can Selenium identify the elements on a webpage, uniquely!
What makes up a solid Mobile App Tester? | 18 Qualities to learn from Virat Kohli
Some say ‘Testing’ is not a skill set, I say Yes. It’s a ‘Mindset’! We have quite to learn from Virat Kohli, what makes up a solid Mobile App Tester?
Software Testing Levels | 5 Stages to deliver a Quality Software
Software Testing Levels are the different stages that enable QA team to deliver a Quality Software; Unit > Component > Integration > System > Acceptance!
What is the Test Environment in software testing? | Test Environment Management
Test Environment is nothing but a replica of actual production environment (being used by end-users) with close-enough hardware and software configurations, where the testing would happen for the developed application.
Understanding ETL Data Warehouse Testing | After all, Data is The King
As we know, a company is a collaboration of multiple departments handling different business and technical aspects – e.g. resourcing, sales, finance, HR, admin, etc. Each department has its own set of applications, tools and DATA, i.e. separate database with department-specific technology & schema. Now say the business team wants to analyze data from different […]
Service-Oriented Architecture | SOA Testing Basics
As more applications move towards Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), it is imperative to at least know the basics of SOA Testing. To start with – Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a way of designing, developing, deploying, and managing enterprise systems where business needs and technical solutions are closely aligned. Let’s look at it closely…
The Karan-Arjun of Software Testing – cont…
Continuing on our tryst with Bollywood’s Karan-Arjun, let’s read about some more important duos in the field of Software Testing!