Interesting articles that enriches validation/quality activities we do, to do differently and smarter.
These consist of tips, suggestions, contrarian approaches and smart checklists etc.
Expectations of owners and users
Let’s start from an end user. For end-users the solution makes their job easier, more productive and efficient. Any solution which gets delivered to them,
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When testing a new platform that we are building, I encountered a bunch of issues around the corners. A variety of corners each little different, it was interesting to see patterns of how bugs crept in.
8 Heuristics for identifying corner cases for testing
Corners are interesting as they are subtle, invisible really. They could be complex with many things that intersect and therefore display an unique behaviour. They may not necessarily symmetrical at ends, nor be similar to behaviour in the middle.
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Let me tell you the story. The site smartqa.org became inaccessible last Friday, and after a few minutes, I discovered that the site was not down, but unreachable. That is when my tryst with support started. After five days of relentless pursuit it was sorted without any help from support. So, what was the issue and what can we learn from this?
An email that broke a workflow
Last Friday the SmartQA site went into a blink, inaccessible, socially distanced to use the modern terminology!
The evolution of test
Earlier days we used to have three different teams – configuration management team to build the product, development that develops and hacks in software and test team that tests the system.