Posted by Sachin Srivastava.
Feb
6
Posted by Sachin Srivastava.
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 …
Jan
29
Posted by Tess Rupprecht.
Everyday, there is something new in the software world. As QAs, we need to be on top of our profession. Once again, learning is the key to our continued success.
Last week, I had a chance to review ( again..) some of the most popular automation testing tools in the market today.
Based on the my own research and reviews, I am no longer surprised that the free open source tools are still leading the popularity over the more expensive proprietary software …
Jan
19
Posted by Tess Rupprecht.
Learning any new stuff always fascinates me. I never believe that anyone knows too much to quit learning.
Yesterday, I downloaded the demo version of the proprietary testing tool from ThoughtWorks called TWIST. Within hours, I was already writing my own test projects and creating scenarios. What is amazing with TWIST is its capability to combine both manual test scenarios and the underlying automated script in one place. The BAs can write the use cases or use stories, then QAs and …
Dec
26
Posted by Tess Rupprecht.
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 …
Dec
25
Posted by Tess Rupprecht.
We would like to greet everyone a Merry Christmas. This is the first Christmas year of our blog site so it’s quite special to us. We wish to celebrate more holidays with you!
Cheers and stay safe!
Dec
21
Posted by Sachin Srivastava.
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 …
Dec
18
Posted by Sachin Srivastava.
In broad perspective, security testing can be divided into six basic concepts: Here is a brief introduction of them but I would suggest exploring more onto each of them individually.
Availability: Assuring that for any information system which is there to serve its purpose, should be available when needed and these information & communications services are available and maintained for authorized persons when needed.
Authentication: Assuring …
Dec
5
Posted by Tess Rupprecht.
This will be our first post under Testing Lessons.
We need to speak the same language.
There are very few QAs I personally know who have taken any formal class in Software testing or Quality Assurance. Most of had completed degrees or diplomas in computer science and there are really no special class to learn how to test software products. If you do have one, then consider yourself luckier than most of us.
So most self learning continues while on the job. One …