Not all our testing time is spent effectively. Sometimes I find myself at the end of a testing day feeling I could have tested much better. Realising that my testing was not as “good” as it could have been if I’d done things a little differently. After analyzing my own behavior, and also based on […]
This has happened to me many times. I find myself fighting over the importance to get a bug fixed, entrenching in arguments around user behavior and customer value, and launching frontal attacks in an effort to win the battle over who is right and who is wrong. After a while, the argument that started over […]
Good testing requires skills, concentration, knowledge, even a bit of luck. I wrote some time back about I always try to work while being in my Testing Zone and I think this is one of the most important ways of improving your testing, especially in this age of open spaces and noisy environments. But just like […]
Bug Hunting Bug Hunting is common practice for many testing organizations worldwide, yet some test managers wrongly feel they go Hunting when their testers informally play with the application in order to find “border-case defects”. What are bug hunts? and what are they not… Bug Hunts are Informal Testing exercises; this should not be mistaken […]
*The following is a guest post by Brendan Connolly, SDET at Agilysys. The opinions stated in this post are his own. Testers, even when embedded on teams, end up being outsiders. Their value is derived from, maintained by, and is continually put at risk by this status. In the early days of software development there was […]
If your work is somewhat similar to mine, then I am sure your day in the office tends to be frantic, noisy, full of interactions with other people. During your average day you will be involved in between 3 to 6 (sometimes as much as 10) different work subjects or projects. No doubt you will […]