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Why Testers Should Get Involved in Requirements Engineering Testers use requirements as the basis of test cases, review them for testability, and often participate in general requirements reviews or inspections. However, many testers have little knowledge of requirements engineering. Erik van Veenendaal provides five critical success factors to get started. |
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Fitness Applications Taking Over Your Personal and Professional Life Last year, Google discovered that the health and fitness section within its app store was the fastest growing category. Beyond the personal uses for fitness apps, some companies are putting a new emphasis on a healthy lifestyle by offering more tangible rewards. |
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What Drives Testers to Find Bugs Finding defects is part of a tester’s responsibility, what is it about defects that gets a tester excited? A tester is in general a curious person—he often loves solving puzzles. He is curious to see how things work, whether they would break, how they would break and under what circumstances, etc. |
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In Mobile Usability Testing, Who Accesses Accessibility? As testers, we need to recognize our own biases and limitations. It is misjudgment to think that we can just close our eyes to be blind or to believe that we understand how someone with Parkinson’s disease functions. Recruit test users other than just a formal test team and learn who your users are. |
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The Three Pillars of Agile Quality and Testing: The Pillars Explained When adopting agile, organizations can be plagued with quality imbalance. Bob Galen found that all agile testing practices and activities can be grouped into three categories: development and test automation, software testing, and cross-functional team practices. He reviews these "pillars" of agile. |
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Integrated User Experiences: Let Your Product Market Itself A new idea being implemented in software is engineering marketing elements into the product itself. When a suite of products is developed, the right levels of touch points, integration, and cross-collaboration are built right in. This can mean lower marketing costs and higher end-user results. |
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Three Ways to Increase Test Coverage Most defects are due to poorly defined requirements and incomplete test coverage, and fixing an error is cheaper at the coding phase than during testing. In order to ensure more thorough testing, try functional workflow documentation, four-dimensional test coverage, and risk-based prioritization. |
