Software test levels guide? The list features tips and insights from experts on many of the less black-and-white aspects of testing. Such as considerations for choosing the right tests, creating a testing culture that sets the stage for successful testing among teams, prepping for tests, testing with greater efficiency, and other important insights to streamline your testing process and get better results in less time and, often, at a more affordable cost.
There are a lot of great staff out there and typically with testers I find attitude is everything! Sure, you can learn great technical skills but if your team members don’t have the right attitude or intuition for testing you will probably be out of luck. If you are lucky enough to have great Test Leads or Testers you will probably find they have the right attitude and social skills to deal diplomatically with people of all levels in all sorts of roles. JDI is always a good approach! Speaking of tester’s intuition, check out one of the earlier blogs in the series on using your intuition, Testing and Bad Smells: When to Investigate Potential Bugs. Thanks Penny for a great post!
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Opening up the communication lines between the testing teams can do wonders for making the testing smooth. Keep open lines of communication between testing teams. Opening up the communication lines between the testing teams can do wonders for making the testing smooth. Communications allow the team to compare results and share effective solutions to problems faced during the test. This will also ensure clear assignment of each task. All members of the team should get updated with the current status of the test. Automation is good, but it doesn’t fix poor test design. Test design must take into consideration all the areas of testing to be performed, but it should also identify high-risk areas or other specific areas where test automation would add the most value rather than leaving such decisions to be made ad hoc once development is in later stages.
Work at home software testing recommendation of the day : Another option if your developers are used to looking at each other’s screens to get past roadblocks is to consider the much ignored practice of eXtreme Programming (XP) – namely pair programming. You can use screen sharing or code-sharing tools (VS Code has this built-in) to make this happen. One of the challenges with tasks and work assignment is that there are too many ways to assign work to people. Should we type up tasks inside a Google document, send emails to someone to act like ‘virtual tasks’, or simply post them to people in Chat. What we have found is that in this case, be very disciplined around task tracking and assignment. Discover a few extra details at cania-consulting.com.