Testers

Are we looking for an Elixir in Software Development?

Yesterday, I was talking to one of my cousins who just became a doctor and said that unfortunately, the majority of doctors have reduced the concept of healthcare to “medicines” and “quick fix” drugs.  Got me thinking that: Health problem fix (bug fix) is at the prime attention of the healthcare industry right now, but …

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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”. Friend: But, what if the test cases are NOT too detailed? Would other testers be able to understand them? Me: The answer is “Yes”, provided they have a basic acquaintance of the software intent and …

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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 to write down all tacit knowledge (understanding) as an explicit requirement. Requirements & Desirements are both important 🙂  “We don’t have enough time for Testing” Yes, we need to stop taking time away from testing. …

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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. The topic for the meetup was a good tester developer relationship. We all shared our views on the importance of a good tester developer relationship and the tips, traps, and possibilities on this topic. There …

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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 this topic. This topic is a constant topic of discussion after every testing hackathon. Each stakeholder of a hackathon has different views, opinions, and expectations from a testing hackathon. Moreover, it is almost impossible to …

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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 rise in the remote / distributed team and teams splitting across geographies, timezones, locations, etc., Good remote collaboration skills can boost your performance, relations, networking, pair working, and stuff required to rock day-to-day work. Why …

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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 time.4. Dev Teams not writing Unit Tests5. Lack of Test Infrastructure (Limited Test Devices, Systems).6. Not insisting on due diligence from managers.7. Not considering the time that will be lost due to task switching.8. Unavailability …

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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 risky for Testing. It’s good to know about them in advance and develop a questioning / investigative attitude whenever you feel you are getting biased. I have seen poor products that have come for testing …

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