How to Interview and Hire A Great Software Tester
The only thing worse than leaving a hole on the team is filling it with the wrong person. Because auditions and existing life experiences are the best predictors of future performance, here are nine...
View ArticleThe Pros and Cons of End-to-End Testing
The goal of end-to-end (E2E) testing is to thoroughly review the user experience from start to finish. Examining real-world scenarios for an application seems essential. However, E2E testing is...
View ArticleKey Metrics for Measuring Test Automation Success
Testing costs plenty: in engineering effort, license fees, and hours on the clock. Are the payoffs worth those expenses? How can we ever be sure? Organizations, for example, invest heavily in test...
View ArticleReduce Test Maintenance with Object Repositories
Consider a simple web application for a team transitioning to DevOps. The team wants to push new code to production at least every day, if not every few hours, and simply does not have enough time to...
View Article10 Best Practices in Test Automation #6: Resolve Failing Test Cases
Introduction Even when test cases have been carefully designed to be stable and maintainable, test failures can happen. There are several possible uses of the term “test failure,” so let’s distinguish...
View Article4 Ways to Improve Communication on Remote Testing Teams
As the pandemic goes on, many individual testers and teams are still working remotely. The expectation is for teams to collaborate as always so they can continue delivering high-quality features to...
View ArticleWhy You Need at Least Three Sets of Eyes on Your Code
I know a better way to program software. I’ll explain why it’s better, and how you, too, can practice it. Pair programming, a practice employed in numerous agile shops, provides a form of continual...
View ArticleHow Much Testing is Enough?
One common question on software development teams is “When should we stop testing?” It would be simple to say, “we’ll stop testing when we’ve found all of the defects.” But software testing can’t tell...
View ArticleShift Left Testing Guide: What, Why, and How
Organizations face increasing pressure to handle the heightened demand placed on what may be limited company resources. In response to this, IT teams must develop ways to deliver high-quality...
View ArticleContinuous Testing Trends for 2022
Continuous testing has made testing code much less intensive and time-consuming. The results of a recent survey, conducted over three quarters, provided fascinating insights into the continuous...
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