Ran Bar-zik is a great tester. Well, he isn’t really a tester, but he is. A programmer and a (cool) blogger, he is great with finding those trivial-unattended security problems - all those that are the result of the negligence of companies. And it’s always the same cycle: Bar-Zik contacts the company, reports the vulnerability, [...]
According to 2 collaborative articles from Priceonomics and Redbooth, the 8-hour workday is a myth. Although we’d all like to believe we’re super productive (from 9-ish to 5-ish), the data tell a very different story. After an exhaustive study of 1.8 million projects across hundreds of thousands of users, Priceonomics and Redbooth determined that: The [...]
It’s now 2018, and we’re ready to begin a brand-new year. But when we looked back at our posts over the previous 12 months, we noticed an interesting trend. Actually – 3 interrelated trends: Emerging challenges in the job market The changing role of software testers The rise of AI and automation This coverage [...]
If you were to create a list of the 10 most important inventions in humankind, you’d probably come up with things like: The printing press Transistors Radio The Internet These all represented foundational leaps in human evolution, allowing us to do amazing things. But you know what also deserves to be on this list? The [...]
At Testuff, we often highlight the importance of having the “right tools for the job.” As a software tester, for example, those tools might be: A fully featured platform - like our software testing suite. Advanced training secured through continued education. Add-ons to help extend or automate functionality. It can even be having a [...]
Software testing is undoubtedly a technical skill – one that requires logic, critical thinking, and analysis. And few would ever argue with this statement. But the very best software testers are also artists. They have a “creativity” itch that they absolutely must scratch. And that deep itch often manifests in unusual ways, which is [...]
Introducing Testuff Testuff test management tool, is evolving so fast, that our intro video became out-of-date. So, we created a new one... A short, and cool, presentation of our test management tool, briefly showing the main benefits. Take a look, then give it a try. It's free. The Testuff Team [...]
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 [...]
Season greetings Testuff community, We have a holiday gift for you! Over the past several months, we’ve explored a radical approach to software quality assurance – one that uses lateral thinking to make testing more successful and creative. Those insights are covered in our 6-part series (published on our blog, from [...]
Give almost any teenager a digital camera or mobile phone, and he can usually figure out all of the core functions without consulting a manual. This is true even if the device is set to a foreign language that he doesn't speak. Give that same phone or camera to an elderly person, and watch the [...]
