Five Gems For A Tester To Groom In Professional Life
A testing career like any other careers in Software Project has a long journey to cover to reach to a level of satisfaction. Tester needs to perform his career objectives consistently during all stages...
View ArticleTen Pair Of Shoes For Product Manager
A product manager during the product lifecycle has various options of selecting a pair of shoes to wear. It depends on his choice whether he wants to cover the journey in comfort and feel the pinch...
View ArticleFive Tips For Usability Testing
A newly built Software application has to pass through one very interesting testing phase known as Usability Testing. This testing is more focused on finding non functional issues related to the...
View ArticleTreat Bugs As Software Enhancers
Bugs are a gentle reminder to respective developer and a sort of alarm for him to check nothing has been skipped as per user and business perspective. Bugs also act as useful and productive...
View ArticleQuality Control Of Bug Report
A good writer is one who pays equal weightage to proof reading or editing of his work besides being focussed on content quality and writing style. For every new work that a good writer produces, he...
View ArticleFive Testing Angles For A Tester To Perform Efficiently
A tester has to look at a product for testing purposes by getting into different modes (or rather I will say by being different avatars) to ensure his mission got completed successfully in terms of...
View ArticleAn Insight Of How To Turn A Good Developer Into A Good Tester As Well
There are good programmers and there are good testers. But in 99% of cases good programmers are not good testers and in 100% of cases good testers are not good programmers. Whats exactly would stop a...
View ArticleTesting And Project Progress Go Hand In Hand
There are seven instances when a tester need to knock to Project Manager for certain requirements or help from him without which his role as a tester cannot move further. Any lack in those assistance...
View ArticleAn Approach To Ascertain Leverage Of Developing Bugs In Place OF Neat...
Every Bug has a cost to fix and for that sake to report too. It takes someone’s time (tester’s) to find out the bug in a software product. It takes another piece of time to write and report it to...
View ArticleEach Bug Has An Element Of Cost Associated With It
Usually it is not the developer’s fault if he build bug in addition to writing code for any application, The seriousness of application may vary from business point of view, the way that application is...
View ArticleMy Earlier Pains About Testers And Developers Are Still Intact
When I started blogging on ITKnowledgeExchange.com under the blog title ” Quality Assurance and Project Management” in the middle of the year 2008, I wanted to pour out all my experience on Project...
View ArticleAn Approach Of Project Cost Estimation And Another For Software Testing
Each bug in the software costs. The first hidden cost is the developers time that could have gone in a neat code, except goes into embedding a bug in his code. This all happens unnoticingly. No...
View ArticleIf Doctor Starts Curing His Patients Like A Programmer
Why Software Developers are not Doctors? was another interesting read to understand the satire behind the simple title line. Software developers are quite famous (and that is not in good sense) for...
View ArticleFive Good Blogs On Testing
Here is a segregated list of my blogs on testing mainly for the purpose of people enthusiast in testing, testers, QA, QC, bug management; and software Quality: What stops a Good Programmer from being a...
View ArticleTesting Methodology Has To Vary For Development And Support Phase
Support comes after project completion. Project lifecycle but must treat support phase as a component of it. Prior to support the major project phases include – project initiation, requirement...
View ArticleImplementation Phase Is Acid Test For Software Project Success
Tester is not the part of package of a team going for software product implementation. Probably that is wrong on part of project manager if he decided to send a technical team member along with...
View ArticleTest Strategy Can Not Be Same For Different Software
A business comprises of different software. These software applications comprise of two business streams – business critical application and business supporting application. Usually business critical...
View ArticleAn Extra Mile Of Testing In Initial Phases Saves A Lot Of Project Fuel
An extra mile of testing effort spent at initial level saves lot of efforts at a later stage. Minor hiccups passed over to customer too sometimes create big issues depending on their frequency and...
View ArticleCan a Tester be Called Anti Coder
Shall we treat tester as a code destroyer? If on one hand a developer develops a code, a tester always tries to find out the holes in the pot. That is where a conflict on personal level originates when...
View ArticleTesters are Either Friends Or Foes of Project Managers
There are different kinds of project managers – those who take testers as a threat and thus treat them as foes and those who take testers are friends and hence always welcome them to put hands on the...
View Article7 Ways in which a Tester can Help in Removing Ambiguities in Business...
A tester always has an extra edger over developer in terms of looking at the product or requirements through a critique’s angle. If the requirements or product is not analyzed in a different manner, it...
View ArticleAuthors Overview – Technology Specific Guide for QTP
The book is precisely of 200 pages, if you include the last 2 pages meant to jot down notes. It is a well written, well titled, and crisply sequenced book written by Aditya Kalra and Timothy Rajan...
View ArticleVideo: What Stops A Good Programmer Becoming A Good Tester
Hi Guys, This is basically the video version of my long back posted article here on IT Knowledge Exchange website. Probably that is one of my earliest blogs and it got quite popular among readers...
View ArticleExperts Comments on Book: Technology Specific Guide for QTP
This new book on QTP for Web Testing is a simple, crisp and a must read for all beginners, novice and experts in the field of software testing. I thought of producing and making all testing guys aware...
View ArticleIf You Are Still Following Waterfall Then You Are Certain To Fall
Waterfall Video Hey guys, this is not a technical video attached here in this post. This is a waterfall in a place called Panchkula near Jammu in India. This waterfall video I have watched n number of...
View Article10 Parameters to Select Tools for Automated Testing
Following parameters may be kept in mind while going for selection of an automating testing tool: 1. Cost: Cost of the tool should be clearly justifiable with the number of projects in hand, foreseen...
View ArticleBe Original While Testing Or Coding
Here are few quotes/ posters I found on net which are quite relevant to the job of a QC and Code writing guys. Curiosity is something than can chip in an extra edge in both – a developer, and a tester....
View ArticleTraining On Project Management Tool Is As Important As Tool Itself
Well, you, as a project manager, have identified the exact needs of your project management tool. In the next step you have also been able to identify the best option in the market. You also identified...
View ArticleFive Must Do For A Tester
Testing is a more serious job than coding. If there is a flaw in coding, tester is there to take care of it but there remains a flaw in your testing it is the customer that is going to shave off your...
View Article5 Must To Have Components Of Defect Report
Though you will find ample amount of templates online with the help of a simple Google search for “Defect Report” or “Bug Report” online, but still some of the components are must to have for any kind...
View ArticleWhat Developers Think About Other Teams In A Project
What an excellent crux has been concluded in this one picture by QATestLab on their blog. It depicts how a team during a project guesses about other teams working in the same project. Probably it might...
View ArticleWhat Designers Perceive About Other Teams Of Project
Referring to the interesting chart/diagram in my previous post depicting what one team perceives or thinks about other teams in a project. In this post let us take that interesting analysis a step...
View ArticleWhat QA Thinks About Other Teams Of Project
Referring to last two posts where we discussed what is the general perception of Developers about various other teams of project, and what perceptions Designers carry about other teams in the same...
View ArticleWhat Picture Project Managers Have In Mind About Various Teams Of Project
In previous three posts we discussed about what one team thinks about other teams while working on a project. There was a picture shown in the post where we discussed what Developers think about other...
View ArticleWhy More Bugs Satisfy A Tester More
Nobody would like to have a bug prone app as far as end user is concerned. When an end user is paying for an app in the market, it means he expects to get what is committed to be delivered in a most...
View ArticleDual Responsibility Of A Tester
Testers have a dual responsibility while testing a product handed over to them. On one hand they are part of the organization that is responsible to launch this product. Development team, after...
View ArticleFreelance Gamers Testers Required For Bethesda Play Test Lab In Dallas
This post came up on MAy 3, 2013 on MTV blog site regarding their offer to the game, technology and testing community staying in areas of Dallas/ Fort Worth. Techies/ Gamers /Testers to visit their...
View ArticleWhen You Are Fresh What A Company Looks For In You
Every company that hires you when you are out of your graduation and are aspiring to become a developer or tester, will boast about being the best technology business in the ecosystem. Every company...
View ArticleSAP Takes New Initiative To Recruit Autistic People As Testers And Programmers
SAP AG has taken a great initiative by deciding to recruit Autistic youth as software testers, QA specialists and programmers. For this they have joined hands with an organization known as...
View ArticleSeven Essential Guidelines For Setting Up Staging Server
Following are the five essential guidelines for setting up your Staging Server while releasing it to key users for conducting UAT: 1. Select the right audience: If you are scared about failure of UAT...
View ArticleFour Dimensions Of Software Quality Team
Quality is the longest journey in any project whereas other teams board and leave the train on various stations. Quality team has various roles during this long journey. Each role has its own set of...
View ArticleTen Factors Impacting Quality Of Software
You ask any software company about their first wish and it will be a consistent desire to produce quality software. Ideally it would be fantastic if the product goes beyond the expectations of customer...
View ArticleSoftware Test Industry Is About To Boom
No wonder if you get to know that the global demand of expert software testing professionals is increasing exponentially. There are, in general, two misconceptions about this profession – one, a...
View ArticleTest Cases Base – Customer Requirement or Development Requirements?
I recently met with a test team with an excellent performance record. For all the applications where it had given a green have a track record of zero major bug encounter post its launch and 100%...
View ArticleQuality Is Not Speed To Deliver
If you feel that speed produces better results, you are wrong and carrying a misconception in mind. Speed in lack of proper direction and predefined or planned results is always a disaster. One has to...
View ArticleQuality Cannot Happen In Isolation
Imagine a scenario when quality is sitting in isolation with no information about what projects are in pipeline at what stage and what is the plan of things coming into their kitty for testing and QC...
View ArticleFocus More On Mobile Apps: Development and Testing
2014 would be a year to focus more on development and deployment of mobile applications in corporate world all across the globe. Corporate are seeking an absolute confidence in using their enterprise...
View ArticleIntrospective Aspects Of Complete Coverage of Testing
There are many ways to ensure complete coverage of software testing as discussing in my earlier post here. Let us revisit those ways and introspect a little more on the same. A careful inspection and...
View ArticleEnsure Complete Test Coverage For a Product
It is important to ensure completeness of testing for any new product built based on the customer’s business requirements. These business requirements become the basic source for defining development...
View ArticleA Good Programmer Cannot be a Good Tester To Replace One
It has become as well proven fact that a tester cannot become a good programmer and a programmer cannot be a good tester. It does not mean that a programmer doesn’t know how to test or he doesn’t have...
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