Software Testing

04/09/2017

03/08/2017

10+ Tips to Survive and Progress in the Field of Software Testing:
Tip #1) Written communication – I repeatedly say this on many occasions that keep all things in written communication. No verbal communication, please. This is applicable to all instructions or tasks that are given to you by your superior. No matter how friendly your lead or manager is but keep things in emails or documents.Keeping things in written makes all the tasks recorded and it becomes easy to keep track of the things. For example, if you find a bug during testing, it is always better to report an issue in the test management tool rather than communicating the bug verbally to the developer. Because later on the developer might forget about fixing the bug you told and rest of the team will also be unaware of it. However, if the bug is reported on the system, everyone will be on the same page regarding the bug status.In the further reading section, I have embedded few links to articles that will help you to brush up communication skills.

Tip #2) Try to automate daily routine tasks – Save time and energy by automating daily routine tasks no matter how small those tasks are.

E.g. 1. If you deploy daily project builds manually, write a batch script to perform the task in one click.

E.g. 2. Many times a day, you need to open the issue management application, check for bugs and their status. Generally, you do all such tasks manually. What I suggest is that you can go a little innovative and write a script that can automatically run on a periodic basis and fetch for you the current status of issues/bugs.

Tip #3) 360-degree testing approach – You need to think from all perspectives to hunt down software defects. Apart from your SRS documents, find all possible information related to the application under test. Use this information to understand the project completely and apply this knowledge while testing.
E.g. If you are testing a partner website integration with your application, make sure to understand partner business fully before starting to test.

Think from the view-point of all stakeholders while doing the testing. For example, the look and feel of an application might be just fine for you as a tester but a business user might not find it appealing. So, you need to actually think and behave like end user while doing user acceptance testing.

Tip #4) Continuous learning – Never stop learning.
Explore better ways to test application. Learn new automation tools like Selenium, QTP or any performance testing tool.

As per current software testing market, some of the key areas you can focus on to learn are open source testing tools, Agile & DevOps, Performance Engineering, Big data testing, mobile testing automation and merging development & testing together – SDET (Software Developer in Test).

We have embedded some article links in the further reading section regarding agile testing & automation testing tools. You can explore more at STH!

Tip #5) Admit mistakes but be confident about whatever tasks you did – Take a lesson from each mistake you make during the work and avoid doing the same mistake again. This is the best method to learn and adapt to new things.

Tip #6) Get involved from the beginning – Ask your lead or manager to get you (QAs) involved in design discussions/meetings from the beginning. This is more applicable for small teams without QA lead or manager. You will be able to do better testing if you know in and out of the application.

Tip #7) Keep notes on everything – Keep notes of daily new things learned on the project so that you don’t need to ask same things again and again to fellow testers or developers.This could be either just simple commands to be executed for certain task to complete or complex testing steps.

Tip #8) Improve your communication and interpersonal skill – This is very important for periodic career growth at all stages. As you count the number of years of software testing experience, you should parallelly grow as a professional.

Tip #9) Make sure you get noticed at work – Sometimes your lead may not present the true picture of you to your manager or company management. In such cases, you should continuously watch the moments where you can show your performance to top management.

Warning – Don’t play politics at work if you think your lead or manager is kind enough to communicate your skill/progress to your manager or top management. In that case no need to follow this tip.

Tip #10) Software testing is fun, enjoy it – Stay calm, be focused, follow all processes and enjoy testing. See how interesting software testing is. I must say it’s addictive for some people.

12/01/2017

B.Ed 2017-19 session Admission open for free registration in university please call Mr.Saurabh at 7860948311

15/12/2016

Best test management tools selection criteria:

A tool selection begins with comparing functionality characteristics, prices and feedback on products. In our article we will take a closer look at the 10 most popular testing and developing services taking into consideration the following main criteria:

test management system – Create and manage projects, members.
test planning opportunity – creating test plans, test cases, test scenarios or user stories.
test run availability– creating test runs, managing members of the testing process, usability and efficiency.
making test reports on work quality and quantity.
task management tool – the bug tracker availability and its speed.
using additional features – import/export, integration with other systems, crash analytics etc.

25/11/2016

GLOBAL OUTSOURCED SOFTWARE TESTING MARKET TO GAIN IMPETUS FROM INCREASING UPTAKE OF CROWDSOURCING:

25/07/2016

Hello friends after long time software testing page is now active, kindly share you view and ideas for fresher who want to start his/her career in testing, with the help of this page they knew the right way....

05/08/2015

Features are:
Bug / feedback reporting
Screen image capturing
Screen video capturing
Bug tracking
Crash reporting
App distributions
Statistics & reports
3rd party service hooks

05/08/2015

Here is a new in-app feedback and distribution tool. It is the easiest and fastest ways for your mobile users and beta testers to report bugs and send feedback. It runs in the background of an app, enabling anyone to instantly send feedback on bugs with the shake of a device. It supports iOS, Andoird and Windows Mobile OS

29/07/2015

TestBash Brighton 2016 – Submissions Now Open

We’ve opened talk and workshop submissions for our Brighton TestBash conference a bit later than normal this year to accommodate our upcoming New York TestBash conference.

(If you submitted to TestBash New York then you should find out very soon whether you have been successful or not. If you are not successful with TestBash New York then we would highly recommend you apply to speak at TestBash Brighton. At the time of writing I can say that whilst we haven’t yet chosen speakers, there are just too many to choose from. There are plenty that we would love to accept, but cannot because the speaking slots are limited. We would really love to see some of you re-submit for Brighton.)

When submitting to TestBash, it’s worth bearing in mind:

we like talks to be new (there are exceptions, sometimes)
we love to hear real stories
we like new ideas
we like things to be interesting
we dislike sales pitches (become a sponsor instead)
we like to have the confidence in you, as a human being, that you can deliver
it really helps (I mean, really, really, really helps) if we know who you are and/or can find out more about you
And the last point is really not about being ‘popular’. It honestly isn’t. The truth is that everyone is a keynote at TestBash. And if this is the case, then we need to have confidence that you can deliver. How you give us that confidence is entirely up to you and your creative mind! :)

The submission deadline is August 21st 2015. Apply to TestBash Brighton!

25/11/2014

Yesterday's London Selenium Meetup was great and topics covered by both the speaker are very close to my heart. Both the speakers, Richard and Haroon spoke about the need to go beyond checks in test automation.

In many teams, automation is viewed as a tool to confirm checks. There is nothing wrong with this definition, however, when you look at the automation in this way, it limits the benefits you can derive from the automation.

However, when you think of automation as testing assisted by tools, you can derive much more benefits.

Both Haroon and Richard shared different ways in which they used Selenium WebDriver and other automation tools to assist their testing. Unfortunately, this talk was not recorded, but I am hoping that Richard and Haroon will post their slides on their blog / slideshare etc.

25/11/2014

London Selenium Meet-up - Beyond Check Automation...
Yesterday's London Selenium Meetup was great and topics covered by both the speaker are very close to my heart. Both the speakers, Richard and Haroon spoke about the need to go beyond checks in test automation.

In many teams, automation is viewed as a tool to confirm checks. There is nothing wrong with this definition, however, when you look at the automation in this way, it limits the benefits you can derive from the automation.

However, when you think of automation as testing assisted by tools, you can derive much more benefits.

Both Haroon and Richard shared different ways in which they used Selenium WebDriver and other automation tools to assist their testing. Unfortunately, this talk was not recorded, but I am hoping that Richard and Haroon will post their slides on their blog / slideshare etc.

21/11/2014

Organizations are investing a greater percentage of the overall IT budget in quality assurance (QA) and testing, according to a recent survey from Capgemini. Published in conjunction with HP, the accompanying “World Quality Report” reveals that this trend is directly benefiting innovation, as most of the spending is funding new development work rather than maintenance needs.

This means tech departments have more resources to pursue advances in cloud, mobility, big data/analytics and social media initiatives. “Testing is becoming ever more business-critical to IT organizations, [which are] faced with external market forces that drive digital transformation,” says Govind Muthukrishnan, senior vice president and testing global service line leader at the Capgemini Group.

“These market forces include changes in customer behavior, heightened global competition, the need to provide an all-channel experience, rapid adoption of social media channels, increased data volumes, and the advancement of technologies such as cloud and mobile.

Testing organizations are increasingly focused on taking advantage of these new market dynamics to deliver tangible business value in the shortest time possible, while optimizing testing costs.” More than 1,540 global CIOs, IT directors and testing leaders took part in the research