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Power Up Your Testing with Pro Test Plans (Templates Included)
This blog post is designed as a guide to illuminate the critical importance of software testing plans—a cornerstone in ensuring the delivery of reliable and high-quality software products as we described in a previous post when we described the process of creating a complete Test Plan. For QA professionals and testers, as well as for those… Continue reading Power Up Your Testing with Pro Test Plans (Templates Included)
Key Points for a Winning Test Plan
Creating a robust Test Plan either on an online document or written paper, is the foundation for delivering high-quality software and it helps streamline the testing phase and serve as a starting point for further initiatives. This goes beyond ensuring functionality; it's about creating a seamless user experience (UX) that caters to your target audience. This blog… Continue reading Key Points for a Winning Test Plan
A Guide to Create a Solid Test Plan
A well-crafted test plan is the cornerstone of successful software development. To make sure the end result is high-quality and bug-free, it acts as a guide for your testing efforts. This guide covers all the essential steps: what's a test plan, what to look for within a test plan, how to do it, and what to… Continue reading A Guide to Create a Solid Test Plan
The Advantages of Testing PRs in Software Development
Testing Pull Requests (PRs) in software development offers numerous advantages. It fosters collaboration among team members, minimizes errors, provides valuable learning opportunities, promotes transparency, and facilitates the onboarding process for new developers. Encouraging Collaboration: PRs promote open discussions regarding code changes, enabling developers to provide feedback, propose enhancements, and seek clarification before integrating new code. Through… Continue reading The Advantages of Testing PRs in Software Development
Software Testing Reports: 7 Essential Steps
In the dynamic landscape of software development, where agility and precision are paramount, testing reports emerge as a cornerstone for quality assurance, tracking progress, and fostering effective communication among stakeholders. Let's embark on a journey to explore the intricacies of testing reports, unraveling their significance, types, content, and the tools that can elevate your reporting game.… Continue reading Software Testing Reports: 7 Essential Steps
The Power of Code Coverage in Software Testing
Hey DevSquad! Today, let's embark on a journey into the fascinating realm of code coverage in software testing. Buckle up because we're not just exploring the basics – we're diving deep into the advantages, potential pitfalls, and why this metric should matter in your daily coding escapades. Understanding Code Coverage: A Compass for Your Codebase In… Continue reading The Power of Code Coverage in Software Testing
Unleashing Generative AI Across the Software Lifecycle
Introduction Software development that is both efficient and effective is becoming more important as the world becomes more dependent on technology. To guarantee that systems and applications perform as expected, software testing is an essential part of software development. Businesses are starting to use generative AI more and more as a result of the fast… Continue reading Unleashing Generative AI Across the Software Lifecycle
Embracing the future: The Rise of AI in Software Engineering
New, game-changing technologies have emerged in the ever-changing field of software engineering as a result of the relentless search for efficiency and creativity. Platform engineering, AI coding assistants, and AI-augmented software engineering (AIASE) are predicted to achieve widespread acceptance in the next 2-5 years, according to the Gartner, Inc. Hype Cycle for Software Engineering, 2023. When it comes to Quality Assurance, software… Continue reading Embracing the future: The Rise of AI in Software Engineering
What’s Model-Based Testing? Advantages & Disadvantages
Models may be used to create tests in a variety of ways. Because testing is typically exploratory and reliant on heuristics, there is no one optimum strategy for test generation. It is usual practice to group all test derivation parameters into a package known as "test requirements," "test purpose," or even "use case(s)." This package, which we may known as "Test Requirements" may… Continue reading What’s Model-Based Testing? Advantages & Disadvantages
6 Software Quality Metrics that Truly Matter
Overview Ensuring the quality of your products is paramount in software development. This involves rigorous software testing, monitoring, and analysis throughout the development lifecycle. One powerful tool at your disposal is software quality metrics. These metrics provide valuable insights into the health and performance of your software projects, helping you make informed decisions and continuously improve… Continue reading 6 Software Quality Metrics that Truly Matter
BDD is Not Only Gherkin or Cucumber
BDD (Behavior Driven Development) strives to communicate clearly whenever any stakeholder's understanding of the desired system changes and attempts to have stakeholders in diverse positions interacting smoothly in parallel to maintain a near-constant grasp of the intended system behavior. If that understanding has been misaligned, it should be updated, or it should be synthesized with… Continue reading BDD is Not Only Gherkin or Cucumber
Should our Exploratory Testing Be Automated?
Exploratory tests are always different tests that are created and conducted at the same time. According to this concept, their automation may appear unnatural. Nonetheless, the deployment of automation based on predetermined and unpredictable circumstances may be of interest: the detection of business flaws. Exploratory testing emphasizes discovery, research, and learning, whereas automation testing focuses on… Continue reading Should our Exploratory Testing Be Automated?
When should Regression Testing be performed?
Regression Testing has its importance with regards to software maintenance. Its primary goal is to discover bugs across the system that were missed during first rollout of a new feature. After our Regression Testing Definitive Guide or our post analyzing the differences between Regression Testing, Unit Testing and Re-Testing, it is good to know the best moment to… Continue reading When should Regression Testing be performed?
Software Compatibility Testing: Importance, Types & Categories
In today's diverse technological landscape, software applications must perform flawlessly across an ever-growing array of devices, operating systems, browsers, and network conditions. This is precisely where <strong>Software Compatibility Testing</strong> becomes indispensable. It's the critical process that ensures your application delivers a consistent and reliable user experience, regardless of the environment it's running in. A simple… Continue reading Software Compatibility Testing: Importance, Types & Categories
Using Test Data in Software Testing
Test parameterization is a powerful testing technique that enables you to execute the same test case with multiple sets of data. Instead of creating separate test cases for different input values, parameterization allows you to maintain a single test case while validating how your application handles various scenarios. This approach not only reduces test maintenance… Continue reading Using Test Data in Software Testing
ChatGPT Impact on Software Testing Practices
Open AI developed Chat GPT, an auto-generative technology for AI chatbots to use in providing online customer support. It employs Natural Language Processing (NLP) and has been trained to generate conversational responses. Textbooks, webpages, and other materials serve as its data source, from which it models its own language for reacting to human contact. When it comes… Continue reading ChatGPT Impact on Software Testing Practices
Understanding Behavior Driven Development: A Comprehensive Guide
As software development projects become more complex, the need for effective testing tools and methodologies becomes increasingly important. One such methodology that has gained popularity in recent years is behavior-driven development (BDD). Behaviour Driven Development, orBDD, is a software development methodology that emphasizes collaboration and communication between developers, testers, and business stakeholders. BDD is an extension of Test Driven Development… Continue reading Understanding Behavior Driven Development: A Comprehensive Guide
When you should not be using Selenium for Testing
There are a wide variety of automated testing tools available, each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. Automating tasks requires careful consideration of the tool's capabilities and constraints before final selection. We recently wondered in our blog if there is a better alternative to Selenium. Consider whether or not the tool you've chosen has… Continue reading When you should not be using Selenium for Testing
End-To-End Testing: Mistakes to Avoid
As we explained in a previous post, where we explained What End-2-End Testing is, we described End-to-end tests as a frequent type of automated testing used to ensure that your websites work properly (sometimes called e2e tests). Remember we pointed out that these tests mimic the steps that a typical user would do while accessing your application using… Continue reading End-To-End Testing: Mistakes to Avoid
Quality Assurance: Models, Stages & Processes
How can you be confident that your product is excellent, and what does Quality Assurance testing entail? Testing a software product for bugs, defects and general effectiveness saves you money and improves your software delivery reputation but what are the main models, stages and processes that are involved in the QA process? We answering it by… Continue reading Quality Assurance: Models, Stages & Processes
Is there any better alternative to Selenium?
For almost two decades, Selenium has been the go-to framework for automated software testing. We have successfully developed that Selenium is a collection of technologies for automating browsers on many platforms. Selenium testing tools are used to automate web app testing, despite the fact that they are capable of much more. The logic for Selenium's test scripts may… Continue reading Is there any better alternative to Selenium?
Gherkin Language: User Stories and Scenarios
Gherkin language is a simple yet effective syntax for describing the specifics of your User Stories. Although Gherkin's Given-When-Then structure has been available for over a decade, many groups still don't make use of it. Meaning of the Term "User Story"User stories describe what a user does or needs to accomplish by describing functionality or a… Continue reading Gherkin Language: User Stories and Scenarios
React Testing: Best Frameworks, Libraries and Tools
The most important part of using TDD with React is picking the correct testing toolset and framework, regardless of whether you're doing unit testing, integration testing, or end-to-end testing. Selecting the appropriate toolset is crucial for using TDD in React, from testing individual components to testing the whole application. This includes a wide range of JavaScript testing frameworks and handy… Continue reading React Testing: Best Frameworks, Libraries and Tools
Best JavaScript Testing Tools
These days, it's simple to become confused by all the JavaScript testing options available. For that reason, at TestQuality we felt it necessary to compile this testing tutorial post for JavaScript programmers. Here, you'll learn how to choose the optimal resources for doing unit and end-to-end tests in JavaScript. The importance of testing JavaScript code. As developers, it… Continue reading Best JavaScript Testing Tools
Regression Testing: A Definitive Guide
1.What's Regression Testing and why is it so important?2.Planning for regression testing, including test cases, frequency, and other considerations3.How do you keep your product's delivery date from becoming delayed while yet managing regression risks?4.How can you ensure that with the use of Regression Testing, your program or application is free of bugs?5.Analyzing the Distinctive Features… Continue reading Regression Testing: A Definitive Guide
Top 15 Manual Testing Interview Questions and Answers
To help you feel more prepared for your next interview, this post is a collection of some of the most frequently asked questions asked in manual and software testing interviews. You should still check it out if you're currently working in some part of the software development industry, with the purpose of improving your knowledge and… Continue reading Top 15 Manual Testing Interview Questions and Answers
Unit vs Regression Testing: A Complete Comparison Guide
Developers spend significant time testing code, yet many teams still struggle with choosing the right testing approach for their specific needs. Research by the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ) found that poor software quality costs the U.S. economy at least $2.41 trillion annually as of 2022, with inadequate testing practices contributing significantly to… Continue reading Unit vs Regression Testing: A Complete Comparison Guide
The need to write an effective Software Bug Report
As mentioned when explaining how to write a software testing plan, every software development project is essentially restricted by its resources, its timelines, and the deliverables that it promises to provide. Because software firms interact with a wide variety of stakeholders, including investors, customers, and end users, they are required to provide software of the highest… Continue reading The need to write an effective Software Bug Report
How to write a Test Plan and what to include.
New software has to be thoroughly tested before it can be released to the public. As such, a software test plan is essential. The software development process is not complete without a comprehensive test plan. It details the measures you'll take to guarantee that your product or feature will function as intended and won't fail at the… Continue reading How to write a Test Plan and what to include.
What Is Cross-Browser Compatibility Testing?
Cross Browser Testing is a sort of testing that determines whether an application works as anticipated across several browsers and degrades seamlessly. It is the process of ensuring that your application is compatible with many browsers. We've all seen that some websites don't display properly in certain browsers, leading us to believe that the website is malfunctioning.… Continue reading What Is Cross-Browser Compatibility Testing?
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