Saeed Gatson

Author: Saeed Gatson

  • Ways Being A Tester Can Help You In Life

    The skills that you develop as a software tester can be used in other places. In the post I’m going to list a few ways being a software tester will help you in other areas of your life.

  • 10 Reasons To Automate UI Test

    User interface automation testing should be part of any successful software development crew. Unit testing is great, but to cover the largest area of your software with the least effort you’ve got to start with the UI. Here are a few reasons why…

  • Redefining Quality

    I’ve been reading the book “Poke The Box” by Seth Godin, and found a passage that I thought would resonate with startups thinking about quality. “Good enough” used to be the definition is qualify. Your product or service has to be good enough to be considered. Then the quality revolution but and the market defined…

  • Five Unexpected Testing Roles In Your Startup

    Making sure that your company delivers a great product takes everyone in the company to gets involved. The quality of your system is also a team effort. Here are a few roles whose main task aren’t test related but they still help improve the quality of your system.

  • Characteristics Of A Bad Software Developer In Test

    Was looking through Quora, and saw a great answer to this question What are the characteristics of a bad software engineer? It got me thinking about what makes a bad software developer in test. Here’s the list in my experience.

  • Test Automation Myths

    There’s a lot of misconceptions about test automation. After doing it for a while you start to see what’s really true.

  • Why Two Pairs Of Eyes Are Better Than One

    Have you ever heard to saying that “Two heads are better than one?”. Well that’s not always true. The quick reason is group think, but we’ll have to get into all that later. Here’s something that is true. You don’t want the person who wrote the code to also be responsible for testing the same…

  • Can You Track Quality?

    Let’s improve quality is heard so often though that it’s easy for the concept to become background noise. Can you truly track quality though?

  • Testing Without Coding Skills

    So you’ve got some interest in your idea. The Developers ready for consistent work, users are begging for more features, and your minds racing with future possibilities. If you’re like most business owners, product founders, or solo entrepreneur software development probably isn’t your strongest skill set. Even if you are technologically gifted, software testing might…