Hey, Passionate testers! What was so exciting about the 90s? (just kidding) Well, one thing that was really exciting was that a lot of testers used to test challenging desktop-based applications. While the world and most testers have moved to web and mobile-based applications. There are still use cases for desktop apps, especially when it …
I found yet another wonderful resource by Falsehoods. It’s on GitHub. kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood: 😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in (github.com) I have curated a checklist based on common Rest API falsehoods. As these are based on falsehoods, there is a high chance that your team or API also has these issues. Use this as a list to …
This is the secret to success. Most people don’t practice testing outside their job. Here are 7 things that’ll help you take your testing game to the next level: 👇🧵 1. Open Source Projects. 🔸Pick any tool.🔸Test It🔸Report bugs | change requests Will help build credibility + real time feedback. One such project: @testsigmainc 2. Testing Hackathons 🔸Follow #testinghackathon on …
This is a talk summary of an amazing talk by Vipin Jain from the TestingUy Conference. Full Talk Video:
Hey, Passionate testers! I found yet another wonderful resource by Lena Pejgan Wiberg. It’s on web testing heuristics. If you don’t understand what a heuristic is, learn about it here. I am planning to add all my personal heuristics as well as such curated collections from various sources and create a collection of heuristics, guidelines, …
Hey, Passionate testers! I found a wonderful resource by Michael Kritsch. It’s on usability heuristic frameworks. If you don’t understand what a heuristic is, learn about it here. These heuristics are a curated collection from 10 popular Usability research models and standards. More details on medium blog. This is a collection of heuristics, guidelines, principles, …
My real problem with “manual/automation testing” is not from the use of the word “manual” or “automation” but the confusion and noise that it introduces around testing to be some kind of test execution process, which it is not. It’s a defocusing term that swiftly shifts the focus from testing craft to test execution mode. …
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This was originally posted as a LinkedIn Post and got some good traction and input from the testing community. I am converting this to a blog post now: Not Everyone can Test ✅ Rahul Parwal Why? Check below 👇 1. Not everyone likes to ask questions.2. Not everyone likes to be in a socially difficult …
Originally, posted as a Twitter thread, thought to post it as a blog as this would be a good reference for the future too I have watched each of these many times in the past years. Here you go! (1/10) Heuristics and why testers should care about them by @jamesmarcusbach This was a webinar – #TTTribeCast by @the_test_tribe (2/10) The …
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What is Testing? Testing is the process of evaluating a product by learning about it through experiencing, exploring, and experimenting, which includes to some degree: questioning, study, modeling, observation, inference, etc. James Bach What do I mean by Essential Skills? In general, most tech & people skills adds value to the work that we do as …