What is Behavior Driven Development (BDD)? In software development, BDD refers to Behavior Driven Development, it is a software development approach. It is an Agile programming development procedure that supports joint effort among designers, QA and non-developers or marketing members in a product . It is written in shared languages and improves the communication between …
There are 10 laws that drive everything Peter knows about testing. It’s not always pretty (and it’s not always kind) but they are always true.I have opinions on testing, driven by these 10 laws. I guess that don’t know that these laws are truly “immutable,” but they’ve been true for the last 80 years or …
On previous post, we did an exploration of tests in Postman environment to a public Rest API. Now it’s time for the famous middleware GraphQL. For those that are not familiar, in GraphQL we have 1 endpoint and we write queries to get the data that we want. Since https://gorest.co.in/ has such an public API …
We recommend collecting test ideas continuously from a variety of information sources. Consider the following, and think about values, risks, opportunities; find shortcuts to cover what is important. 🟢 Product Capabilities. The first and obvious test ideas deal with what the product is supposed to do. A good start is requirements, examples and other specifications, …
A quality criterion is some requirement that defines what the product should be. By thinking about different kinds of criteria, you will be better able to plan tests that discover important problems fast. Each of the items on this list can be thought of as a potential risk area. For each item below, determine if …
Over time the definitions of software testing and the ideas behind it have changed.This post brings together an expanding collection of testing definitions in chronological order and thus provide an overview on changing views. Views that are based on the changes in computer and software development one would expect to be outdated but often still …
Introduction If you ask any software quality professional what they do, most will tell you (I should know, I’ve been working as a QA/QE/Test manager for the last 12 years) their job function is mostly centered around testing. It comes in various forms: manual testing, automated testing, exploratory testing, functional testing, performance testing, load testing, …
When you start even as a developer to check your API, an easy and very popular way to check the response of your localhost build is Postman.To the following post we will see how to write tests in Postman environment and run them to CI. We will use some javascript and a public API testing …
One of the questions I get very often as a quality coach is “how can we measure quality?” If I were to reply right off the bat, my answer would be “No clue!” as I find it very hard to quantify something as abstract and ever changing as quality. Nevertheless I think the premise of …
Or how programmers and testers can work together for a happy and fulfilling life. Why don’t we just automate all the testing? Is test coverage a useful metric? What does it mean to “shift testing left”? When and where should we be testing? How much is enough testing? Over the years I have discussed these …
