Scaling Yourself – Do More in Less
The motivation for this post was a question by Indrani on The Test Tribe Community’s Discord Server. The question was […]
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Conversation on Over-Detailing Syndrome
Me: Detailed testing procedures (“scripts” or “cases”) work well for automation scripting but could be an overkill for human “testers”.
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A-Z of How to Contribute to Communities
Most of the industry talks about the importance of engaging and contributing to communities but we rarely talk about how
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10 Testing Issues That Concern Me Often
“Requirements are NOT Clear”. Yes, we need better-drafted requirements! But, at the same time, we need to stop expecting stakeholders
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Good Tester Developer Relationship
This was the topic of discussion for the Automation Advocates Virtual Coffee Meetup # 1. We all shared our views
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Virtual Whiteboarding – Study Notes
These are my study notes on the course on Virtual Whiteboarding available for free at the University of Provar. The
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As a Tester, What can I showcase except Bugs, Tests, and Bug Reports?
This question came from an interesting discussion that I had done in the Automation Advocates Virtual Coffee Meetup # 1.
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Should organizers share bug reports or implement a live open bug database in Testing Contests?
NOTE: This blog post is a summary of some asynchronous discussions between Saket Agrawal, Fenil Vaswani, and Rahul Parwal on
How to be a good remote buddy?
Out of all the soft skills, remote collaboration skills are one the most useful and influential skills today. With the
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10 Testing Challenges you might be going through
1. Poor Testability2. Expectations that testers have to pinpoint every issue.3. Lack of time in testing because development took more
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API Testing vs UI Testing: What pays more?
A similar question was asked in The Test Chat Community, one month back. Here is my take on it: API
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Persuasion Skills for Testers
Ever noticed how some people possess super persuasive skills? I had learned the basics of this skill from my discussions
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Learning Automation Skills as a Tester
Original Question:I am into manual testing so far. Need to move to automation testing. I have worked on automation for around 8
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Wanna be Super Productive? Check this out!
Finding appropriate tools for boosting productivity can be a big challenge. Be it a tool to remember the passwords or
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Are Biases Influencing your Test Results?
Testing is driven by Human Judgements, Observations, Analysis, Heuristics & Biases. However, like in any other field, Biases and prejudices can be very
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Tips to Fastrack as an Automation Engineer
Think on the lines of adding value. What value are you adding? Think about what problem needs to be solved?
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10 Lessons from 5 Years of My Software Career
1. Quality >>> Quantity Quality matters in long run. No matter how much you do, you will only be recognized by
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How Google Tests Software – Summary
How Google Tests Software? Why Bug Prevention is important? What are the various contributing roles to testing? What does a
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Doctor Consultation vs Google – Tester Perspective
I saw this question in one of the chat groups today. To me, It sounded like a manual testing vs automation testing
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Personal Tips: How to improve skills and grow in your career?
Someone asked me this question today. Although, I feel I am still too small for giving such advice. However, based
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How to stay humble when people are aggressive towards you?
An old-time mentor asked me this question today. Though, I feel that I don’t know much about this skill (“constructive
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How can experienced testers help new testers who “really work” in getting more “work”?
Promote any good stuff by them. (Good stuff in general spreads fast automatically irrespective of any push, however, a push
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