A few discussions I’ve seen lately have gotten me thinking about this: What do testers do?How does an ISTQB-following tester compare to an “Agile” or “modern” tester?Is it a tester’s job to decide the severity and / or priority of a bug?Why do people use the phrase “manual tester” (and the general debate around wording …
QA is a funny thing. It has meant everything from “the most senior engineer who puts the final stamp on all code” to “the guy who just sort of clicks around randomly and sees if anything breaks.” I’ve seen seen QA operating in all different levels of the organization, from engineers tightly integrated with each …
Imagine the process of buying a new car. Before you buy a specific one you would develop an opinion on buying a certain brand by comparing that brand with others on the basis of reliability, performance, or fuel economy. For quality to translate to your users, you need to create products and a culture that …
1. Lack of communication Communication is the key aspect of all kinds of businesses. The tech industry is the place where both living and non-living things have the potential to communicate, and a lack of communication impacts businesses on various levels, like: Creates an uneasy and unstable work environment where things are not least predictable. …
Let’s say you take the leap and talk to management about technical debt in your codebase and the need to pay it down. One of two things can happen: you get a “Yes, go ahead and tackle this” or you get the dreaded “No, not right now”. This article is my advice for how to …
Why do you prefer a product even if it has equal functionality to a competitor?What is it that makes one product stand out amongst the other?Maybe you have had thoughts about what makes a product feel special?We all know that this happens in some way, but how do you test for the quality characteristic we …
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 …
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 …
