In many ways, the contrast between Olympic athletes and software testers couldn't be starker: One class of professionals symbolizes the ultimate in human form, strength, and grace. They are paragons of physical perfection. The other category is the exact opposite. QA professionals are often depicted as skinny or fat (but never in between). And it’s [...]
The open source (OS) revolution has been hugely successful – from Linux to Mozilla to WordPress. Even the world’s favorite encyclopedia, Wikipedia, falls under this broad "open" umbrella. And it’s not difficult to understand their popularity: They’re infinitely expandable, with add-ons and plug-ins. They’re supported by huge, enthusiastic communities. They benefit from tremendous security [...]
When testing your software, applications, mobile apps and enterprise tools you are busy writing tests, planning the cycles (who will test what, when, how), managing the requirements and making sure they are assigned with the right tests, etc., etc. - many different aspects of the testing project. But at the end of the day, it’s [...]
This seems like a silly question. Obviously, developers need to make sure their builds are stable before sending them on to the testing team. So yes, developers must at least taste test their applications. But what we’re really asking is whether developers should conduct rigorous testing, complete with defect reporting, debugging, and methodology selection – [...]
CIO REVIEW Magazine Announces The 20 Most Promising Quality Assurance Solution Providers 2016 (June 27, 2016) FREMONT, CA – Testuff, a provider of on-demand service for managing and executing manual and automated software tests and for reporting defects, was chosen among the 20 Most Promising Quality Assurance Solution Providers 2016 by CIOReview. CIOReview editors-with input [...]
At the time of this writing, Euro 2016 is still going on. Even still, it's possible to extract some valuable lessons from the results thus far. Many of the favored teams continue to underperform, despite having the ‘star’ players, huge budgets and stacked decks. Countries like England and Belgium, for example, were expected to reach [...]
Working on an application isn’t done only in the front. It’s not all about what the user sees, but has a lot to do with what happens in the background. How good is the app, is dependent also in its performance, reliability, data integrity and data security. These all are complicated, and are a result [...]
The division of labor couldn’t be clearer: Quality assurance professionals are supposed to test and report bugs. Software developers are supposed to build and fix code. Getting a product ready for launch might require hundreds (or thousands) of back-and-forth exchanges to fix all defects. However, that’s how the industry is set up. But what [...]
The ability to find the test, defect or requirement you are looking for, fast and easy, is crucial for a smooth flow and high testing pace. Your lists might contain hundreds or thousands of items, and you need to be able to find the one item, or group of items, you need to work with. [...]
A few years ago, we wrote an article about The Grid – an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that could build custom designed websites from scratch. On the surface, The Grid seems like a potential threat to web developers and graphic designers. In fact, this technology poses an existential threat to anyone working in IT – [...]
