test methodologies

Are Your Testing Practices In Line with Today’s Needs?

Practices in any discipline need continuous review to ensure they are still effective and in line with current requirements. Software testing practices are no exception—the development landscape is highly dynamic, requiring periodic updating of practices. How and when should you review? Read on.

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Rajini Padmanaban
7 Biases That Impact Testing

We tend to judge based on biases that are a result of our environment, background, culture, and experiences. This is even true for our roles as testers. Here are seven biases that could alter the impartiality in your testing and QA practices. See if you have any inclinations you should correct.

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Deepika Mamnani
Reviewing the Keynote Presentations at STAREAST

The STAREAST testing conference in May featured more than a hundred learning opportunities. Here, we examine the four keynote presentations: Deliberate Testing in an Agile World, The Future of the Software Testing Profession, Blunders in Test Automation, and Innovation: From the Tester’s Viewpoint.

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Sandy Sidhu
A 2015 Graduate Testing in a DevOps World

Testing professionals who graduated in past decades know that methods then were highly process-oriented, with no automation. Those methods have evolved into a world that needs continuous testing to meet deployment needs. Here are the key skills an aspiring tester graduating now should think about.

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Deepika Mamnani
An Agile Approach to Managing Your Software Testing Career

Testers are very much still needed. However, with so many new technologies and roles becoming available, some testers may want to explore options for their career paths. Michael Sowers offers an agile approach to determining your career direction, evaluating the alternatives, and developing a plan.

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Michael Sowers
Three Ways to Organize System Information for a Better Test Plan

A performance test cycle should start with establishing a planning process, but this step often gets ignored or is viewed as less important. Having a better way to organize system information can help your team see what information is available and form a more effective performance testing plan.

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Anish Krishnan
Pair Testing—A Best Practice to Enhance Accessibility Test Coverage

Pairing testers with disabilities with nondisabled testers yields valuable results. It's a constructive approach to enhance test coverage because there are functions of an application that either a visually impaired tester or a sighted tester may miss on his own, but together they find more defects.

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Sunil Dangwal
Building a Testing Framework for Digital Accessibility

Many mistakenly believe frameworks are applicable only to test automation because they provide easy test implementation, enhanced productivity for testers, and empower dependable quality for the product. However, accessibility also is a rich ground for frameworks to be built and leveraged. Read on.

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Rajini Padmanaban