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🧨 Defect Management Metrics Every QA Professional Should Know (Part 5)🧨

Most teams track defect counts. But mature QA organizations track how well the defect process works—because the biggest cost isn’t the bugs themselves, it’s the rework, noise, and backlog growth that slow delivery and reduce release confidence.In this article, we cover four defect management metrics that reveal process quality and delivery stability: Defect Reopen Rate …

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🐞Defect Management Metrics Every QA Professional Should Know (Part 2)🐞

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Defect management is more than counting bugs. Strong QA teams use defect metrics to answer four practical questions: How bad is the problem? (Severity) How urgent is it for the business? (Priority) Where are defects being discovered? (Environment) Why do defects happen in the first place? (Root cause) In this lesson, we cover four essential …

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Common Misconceptions About Quality Engineering

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Quality Engineering is gaining traction within the software industry, but there’s a risk that we will fall into the traps of past fads and never emerge from the trough of disillusionment.As with any new idea, misconceptions and myths emerge as people try to figure out how to apply it to their context and extract the …

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10 unrealistic expectations for Test Automation

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Here are 10 of the most common myths associated with automated testing and more context that they often lack: 1. Test automation is expensive and often fails to generate a positive ROI. There is an initial substantial cost for upfront investment in training, tool(s) and creating new processes. In the long run, test automation generates …

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Introduction to QA 2.0

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QA 2.0 is redefining what it means to be a modern Software Quality Assurance professional. In the modern era of software development, QA has to provide a holistic approach to quality assurance. Testing and identifying defects after they have been created is TOO LATE. QA 2.0 shifts the focus towards prevention of defects in all areas …

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Rethinking Determinism and Testing in Software Development: A Path to Zero Defects

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In the realm of software engineering, we often discuss concepts like determinism, preconditions, postconditions, and class invariants. While these are important, it’s time we challenge some fundamental assumptions about software development and testing. This post explores these concepts and then proposes a radical shift in our approach. Traditional Concepts: A Brief Overview Determinism: In a …

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18 + 1 Obstacles to efficiency of Testing

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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. …

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100+1 definitions of Software Testing

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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 …

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You Can’t Fix Quality Just By Catching Bugs

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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, …

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📝 How does your company treats QA? The Test Test

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I am always frustrated and somewhat sad when I hear testers whine or complain that they are not treated fairly; or that they are not respected; or that their development peers look down on them. I’ve been sitting on this post for many months wondering if I should post it or not when this thread …

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