Entries Tagged 'How to be a good tester' ↓
September 18th, 2007 — Bug Defect tracking, How to be a good tester, Software Testing Templates
Why good Bug report?
If your bug report is effective, chances are higher that it will get fixed. So fixing a bug depends on how effectively you report it. Reporting a bug is nothing but a skill and I will tell you how to achieve this skill.
“The point of writing problem report(bug report) is to get bugs fixed” – By Cem Kaner. If tester is not reporting bug correctly, programmer will most likely reject this bug stating as irreproducible. This can hurt testers moral and some time ego also. (I suggest do not keep any type of ego. Ego’s like “I have reported bug correctly”, “I can reproduce it”, “Why he/she has rejected the bug?”, “It’s not my fault” etc etc..)
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July 18th, 2007 — Basics of Software testing, How to be a good tester, Tester vs Developer, Testing Tips and resources
Recently I read a very interesting article on “All I Ever need to know about testing” by Lee Copeland.
I was so impressed with the concept of our day to day work comparison with the software testing.
I will extract only points related to software testing. As a software tester keep in mind these simple points:
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June 21st, 2007 — Bug Defect tracking, How to be a good tester, Testing Skill Improvement, Testing Tips and resources
A very good and important point. Right? If you are a software tester or a QA engineer then you must be thinking every minute to find a bug in an application. And you should be!
I think finding a blocker bug like any system crash is often rewarding! No I don’t think like that. You should try to find out the bugs that are most difficult to find and those always misleads users.
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June 13th, 2007 — Basics of Software testing, Career in software Testing, How to be a good tester, Testing Skill Improvement, Testing Tips and resources
If you are willing to choose software testing as your career then this is a must read!
Nowadays I get many mails asking me about software testing jobs. Should I select software testing as my career? How to switch to software testing from other job experience? Which institute should I join for testing course? And many more …
I will give a common answer to all these questions whether you should choose software testing as your career or not? Let me first explain in brief about software testing. Software testing and quality control are the processes by means of which application quality is improved. Software testing is done in each phase of product life cycle i.e from requirement specifications , design, coding, to the user acceptance.
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May 29th, 2007 — Basics of Software testing, Career in software Testing, How to be a good tester, Tester vs Developer, Testing Skill Improvement, Testing Tips and resources
It’s a every testers question. How to be a good tester? Apart from the technical knowledge, testing skills, tester should have some personal level skills which will help them to build a good rapport in the testing team.
What are these abilities , skills which make a tester as a good tester? Well, I was reading Dave Whalen’s article “Ugly Baby Syndrome!” and found it very interesting. Dave compared software developers with the parents who deliver a baby (software) with countless efforts. Naturally the product managers, architectures, Continue reading →
May 2nd, 2007 — How to be a good tester, Testing Skill Improvement, Testing Tips and resources
Many Companies don’t have resources or can’t afford to hire the required number of testers on the project. So what could be the solution in this case?
The answer is simple. Companies will prefer to have skilled testers instead of a army of testers!
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