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 …
Most of you are working in Tech industry, you know that there is a gap between business and tech people. Why? It’s another story and a huge post.The question is what we can do to connect those two worlds? As we discussed on a previous post, you can use 🍺 beer to do it but …
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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 …
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 …
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 Views that are based on the changes in computer and software development one would expect to be outdated but often still …
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 …
There is a pervasive problem in the software industry stemming from a misunderstanding of automated testing. Companies are investing increasing amounts of money and time into automated testing strategies and test suites, but are not seeing an increase in quality or value delivery to customers. Thankfully automated testing is now being seen as a necessary …
What benefits do we get with test automation? Quite often when people get involved in automated testing, their main focus shifts from designing good tests to ensuring that the automated code can actually execute and run the test. During the sprint when team members are under pressure to deliver the stories in a limited time …
Imagine you are in a scenario where there are lots of incidents, delivery is slow and customers are not happy with the quality of your products or you are promoted/hired as Head of QA where QA department doesn’t exist yet. Step 1: InvestigateThe first step is to hold independent interviews with multiple team members to …
