“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. …
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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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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A similar question was asked in The Test Chat Community, one month back. Here is my take on it: API automation pays nothing when one needs UI automation. UI automation pays nothing when one needs API automation. UI apps are of multiple types: Web, Desktop, Mobile, PWA, Tv, Tablets API(s) are also of multiple types: …
Ever noticed how some people possess super persuasive skills? I had learned the basics of this skill from my discussions & RST Class with James Bach along with some of my personal studies on Bug Advocacy. Recently, I came across this wonderful article from James on the Persuasion for Testers. I created this summary mindmap for myself. …
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 …
How Google Tests Software? Why Bug Prevention is important? What are the various contributing roles to testing? What does a SET (Software Engineer in Test) do? Read an old blog post series on the same topic by James Whittaker (2011), and here are my notes. There would have been some (lot?) of changes in this …
Participated with my friend, Apoorva Ram (Senior Software Test Engineer @ Qapitol QA). Day # 1 10:00 AM IST: Intro Session Fun Games by Azhar Shams. Brief by ZenQ Team (It’s a nice company with a strong position in testing). Product Demo by 3 Product Teams: FireCamp MoneyHop Unifarm Introduction about The Test Tribe from Ashutosh Garg …
Original Question that triggered this blog post:Ashutosh Garg in TTT Discord: Is testing or a part of testing also sales? “What are we testing for?” It is a fundamental question that helps us to explore the purpose behind our testing. For different stakeholders, there might be different purposes, some of which would be common, while the others would …