Entries Tagged 'Testing Skill Improvement' ↓
January 23rd, 2008 — Testing Skill Improvement, Bug Defect tracking, How to be a good tester
I hate “Invalid bug” label from developers for the bugs reported by me, do you? I think every tester should try to get his/her 100% bugs resolved. This requires bug reporting skill. See my previous post on “How to write a good bug report? Tips and Tricks” to report bugs professionally and without any ambiguity.
The main reason for bug being marked as invalid is “Insufficient troubleshooting” by tester before reporting the bug. In this post I will focus only on troubleshooting to find main cause of the bug. Troubleshooting will help you to decide whether the ambiguity you found in your application under test is really a bug or any test setup mistake.
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January 16th, 2008 — QA team skills, Testing Skill Improvement
This a guest post from author “Sharath R Bhat”
What do we mean by a great software testing team?
“A team with a star player is a good team, but a team without one is a great
team.” - Author unknown.
The above quote from Author leads us to discussion on great teams and its characteristics. The article stems from experience gained while working for different teams, observation of team members behavior under time pressure coupled with complex nature of project.This holds good for Software Testing team which finds prominence place in a project activities and requires right mix of people for performing these activities.
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January 14th, 2008 — Testing Skill Improvement, Testing Interview questions
This is the a guest post from author “Suhas R M”. Author is working as a software test engineer and having 4 years of manual testing experience.
A colleague of mine recently asked me, “Where should I start with for preparation of interview? It’s almost 2 years I have faced any interview.”
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October 9th, 2007 — Testing Skill Improvement, How to be a good tester, Basics of Software testing
Jayant Deo asks:
“Looking at the current scenario from the industry it is seen that the testers are expected to have both technical testing skills as well either need to be from the domain background or have gathered domain knowledge mainly for BFSI is commonly seen.
I would like to know why and when is this domain knowledge imparted to the tester during the testing cycle?”
First of all I would like to introduce three dimensional testing career mentioned by Danny R. Faught. There are three categories of skill that need to be judged before hiring any software tester. What are those three skill categories?
1) Testing skill
2) Domain knowledge
3) Technical expertise.
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August 15th, 2007 — Testing Skill Improvement, Testing Tips and resources, Web Testing
In my previous post I have outlined points to be considered while testing web applications. Here we will see some more details on web application testing with web testing test cases. Let me tell you one thing that I always like to share practical knowledge, which can be useful to users in their career life. This is a quite long article so sit back and get relaxed to get most out of it.
Let’s have first web testing checklist.
1) Functionality Testing
2) Usability testing
3) Interface testing
4) Compatibility testing
5) Performance testing
6) Security testing
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August 7th, 2007 — Testing Skill Improvement, Testing Interview questions, Basics of Software testing
What is White Box Testing?
White box testing (WBT) is also called Structural or Glass box testing.
White box testing involves looking at the structure of the code. When you know the internal structure of a product, tests can be conducted to ensure that the internal operations performed according to the specification. And all internal components have been adequately exercised.
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