Quality Assurance and Quality Control: From the Middle Ages to Now
Quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC), and testing are three words you’ve likely heard. It’s just as likely you’ve heard them used incorrectly. At some point, we’ve all been guilty of using the terms QA, QC, and testing interchangeably to refer to ways of ensuring …
Is Software Testing Dying? No. It’s Just Changing
The Waterfall development methodology has gradually been supplanted by and, to a degree, merged with Agile. The once sacrosanct division between development and testing has been diligently dissolved to accommodate the small development/testing/product management groups that Agile promotes and thrives upon.
A side effect of …
Benefits of Software Testing Based on Use Cases
Ideally, functional testing follows a carefully designed test plan. Those who spend their days in the Agile/Continuous Integration development trenches will doubtless look at the phrase ‘carefully designed test plan’ with understandable skepticism. Modern software development is schedule driven to release new versions with only …
5 Simple Accessibility Tests Everyone Can Do and Why They Aren’t Enough
In the United States, approximately 20% of the population experiences some form of disability and 10 % of cases are considered severe. This equates to three out of every 10 families being affected by disability. You spend time on app design or site SEO to …
Don’t Put Your Virtual Reality Testing in the Hands of a Noob
Twenty years ago, only visionaries could imagine the ways we use digital devices today. Then, we made calls and sent texts. We created alphanumeric emojis and our “cell phones” had a battery life measured in minutes, not hours or days. We played Snake, casually flipping …
Software QA Has Business Value. Treat it Like That.
For many years, the software QA and software development groups were just that, groups. The development engineers were charged with keeping their focus on converting marketing’s product feature lists into working code and integrating that code into working systems that fulfilled the system’s specified functionality.
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3 Challenges You Face When Automating Website Testing
Today’s web site development, and ecommerce in particular, is driven by marketing schedules. The point of the exercise is to get market campaigns, new site features, new products/services up on the site and available to the customer base as soon as possible. In the service …
Creativity Reigns During Exploratory Testing
“To explore strange new worlds … to boldly go where no man has gone before” – James T. Kirk
Much like Captain Kirk in Star Trek, the job of the exploratory tester is to boldly go where no person has gone before. Using intuition and …
Functional Testing Approaches and Agile Considerations
Functionality testing is the examination of a coded system’s response to expected usage. Notice that doesn’t talk about cosmetic appearance, performance, security or compliance of any sort.
What is Functionality Testing?
Functional testing is a process of verifying that a system performs as expected when …
Wearable Device Testing: New Technology Demands a New Approach
From fitness trackers (for you, and your pet), smart watches, AR glasses, and clothing designed to navigate for you, it seems like we hear about the latest innovation in wearable devices on a weekly basis. It is true that wearables, powered by the Internet of …
The What, Why, and How of Interoperability Testing
Software systems have had at least some need to share data and status (interoperate) with each other for over half a century.
For humans, interoperability has typically been a matter of clarity and complete content in written and spoken communications. As situational stress mounts, managing …
Mobile App Testing: Real Devices (Superman) vs. Emulators (Optimus Prime)
The debate over real devices vs. emulators for mobile app testing is as old as the epic superhero battles of yore. Depending on what aspect of your app you’re trying to test, and where in the dev cycle your product is, the answer to this …
