Marie Poppins March 21, 2020

Test plan knowledge? 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.

Testers and flexible. Not necessarily two words you expect to see together in the same sentence, but in the QA world let’s face it… things don’t always go to plan. In fact, more often than not things don’t go to plan. Sometimes these things are out of our control and that’s just the way it is. What is stopping you from encouraging your team to try another approach? Trying different approaches may or may not work, but encouraging your team to be flexible and come up with other ideas may give you surprisingly good results.

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The ‘what if’ should become the leading question of the software research. On the other hand, if you had a bug in the accounting software that caused all of the data to become corrupted every 1,000th time the data was saved, that would have a huge impact but at a very low frequency. The reason I define software testing in this way is that — as any tester will tell you — you can never find all the bugs or defects in a piece of software and you can never test every possible input into the software (for any non-trivial application). Think outside of the box. More and more often we have to deal with assuring quality of various IoT developments. They require testers to become real users for some time and try the most unthinkable scenarios. What we recommend is to start thinking out of the box.

Quarantine software testing tip of the day : One of the biggest challenges when developing or testing software is what to do when you hit a roadblock and cannot seem to get past it. When we are all located together, one of my strategies of “hands-on management” (a term pioneered by Bill Marriott Jr.) is to walk around and ask how people are doing. Often I will find that a person has been stuck on something for a while. Often a fresh pair of eyes will assist and one of us can see the solution. Alternatively I will tell that person to work on something else and come back to it. Usually the next day when they come back, they see the answer right away. That kind of intervention is harder when everyone is remote. Another related issue can be when that same person is dependent on something from another person and they are not both working the same hours remotely. This can happen if one person has to deal with family situations and is working earlier/later hours than they would have worked in the office. Explore a few more info on cania-consulting.com.