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Real Developer To Tester Conversations
This joke was sent around the office a few days ago. Thought I would share here. Developer : I’m not able to replicate this issue. It’s working fine on my machine. So lets close this bug. Tester : I understand that it’s working fine on your machine, but we aren’t going to deliver your machine to our customers. Let’s…
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The Five Whys for Software Testing
Just finished reading the Lean Startup by Eric Rise. It’s a great book about how lean manufacturing principles can be used to help startups innovate and succeed. One of the concept from the book that I really liked is called the Five Whys. Its origins in the Toyota Production System, and proposes that every supposedly technical problem is…
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7 Benefits Of Gated Deployments
The end of the sprint was only a few days away. The team was working hard to make sure that all the features we had committed to. Would make it into production release. With a code freeze looming overhead tension were high. On feature had just passed a flurry of quick code reviews becoming “Dev Complete”. The code was quickly checked in…
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How Testers Are Both The Hero And The Villain
What do you do when you’re job is to break things. To find the weakness in something and then point them out. To push back on work that others believe is finished. To be the voice for the customer, an evangelist.To be a skeptic and highly critical, never being brain washed by the hype. Being a tester means…
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5 Misperceptions in Software Testing
From Ask A Tester: Misperceptions in software testing are not necessarily bad things. They are just part of the learning process. We may misperceive things when we get along the way with software testing and we also could realize these misperceptions when we have more experiences in software testing. The most important thing for the…
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10 Benefits Of Testing With Fresh Eyes
I missed it, missed it completely. That’s my opinion personally. Failure. A few days after releasing what should have been a killer new look, and we got nothing but complaints. We had just redesigned the UI, something we should have been done years ago. The problem was we had screwed up the tab functionality in…
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Techniques For Building A Software Testing Framework
In a previous post we talked about the 8 Benefits of a Test Automation Framework. Now that you’re convinced that having a test automation framework is a good idea, today we’re going to cover the techniques you can use to build one.
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How To Test A Toaster
Here’s some help on how to get through a common interview question. How to test a… well anything. Such questions are asked to test your curiosity and approach to testing. They may sound stupid, but will hopefully reveal how a tester thinks and works. This post will help you figure out how to test a…
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8 Benefits of a Test Automation Framework
What is a Test Automation Framework? A test automation framework is an application that allows you to write a series of test without worrying about the constraints of the underlying test tools. It’s a set of protocols, rules, standards and guidelines that can be followed as a whole so you can leverage the benefits of the scaffolding…