Last Friday, someone in the office came back from San Francisco with an IPAD!
Commotion followed!
The prized little gadget passed several hands in less than 2 minutes. But once it landed into the lap of a fellow QA, the testing fun begins!  Yousee we have an iPhone application in the middle of development, and what a cool way to see if the same iPhone apps will work with its big brother closely named iPad.  And no, I won’t tell you …

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For any tester, it is very important to hone one’s testing skills since this is one’s “bread & butter” to survive in the QA world.
Having said this, I would like to share some practices I’ve learned through the years that I found effective in improving my testing skills. Who knows? They might work for you too
1. Read bugs logged by other testers.
By familiarizing yourself with known issues, you will be able to strategize …

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I used to skimp on the documentation testing because I believe it detracts me from my “real” job, which is testing the program itself.
I am happy to admit that i was wrong!
Why is it important

You will find more bugs than you expect. Surprisingly many bugs show up when a competent QA  THOROUGHLY checks the manual (or help guide) against the program. The writer looks at the program from a different angle than the developer and the QA, so the …

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Buggy Thoughts for Today
I strongly feel that  adding ATDD to TDD is a good testing combination. Given the right focus from all stakeholders, it can drive the entire development process to come up with quality software products whose codes are testable, reliable, stable and easy to maintain. I don’t claim to be an expert on any QA methodology but I try to justify my testing strategy by adequate research, seeking advice from the testing community (online and offline) …

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While at a client’s site, I was thrown into a schedule of endless agile meetings! Daily stand-up meetings, sit-down meetings, lunch meetings (Seriously, these meetings do really work!)
Lots of productive meetings. This is a good sign. This is one of the reasons why Agile is becoming  “the way to go“  in software development and implementation. More open communication leads to better understanding of the requirements of the product , fast resolutions of the issues …

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In accordance to my past and present experience I could say, the most challenging role to adapt to agile development is the role of tester, as agile development contradicts so many things that testers have been taught is “best practice”.
Many testers might have gained training or experience with water fall model and would have spent lot of time practicing V-Model where in the system testing correlates directly with the system specification and testing commences with the completion of software development …

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This post will be the first in our series of exploring “Agile Testing”.
The technology world evolves faster than most of us would like to admit. But change can either be good or bad, it depends on ones perspective and the actual verifiable results from those who have actually implemented it.
The latest word in computing is “AGILE”. Is it just a fad? Is it for real? It has been around for almost a decade now thou some …

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It had been a common question what are the main benefits of automation testing. In this post I will try to put in some efforts to consolidate and list the main benefits of automation testing.
Key benefits that effective automated testing can bring to you business:

Reduce the time spent on testing.
Reduce the money spent on testing.
Increase the overall productivity of your IT operation.
Improve the software …

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