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SaifApprentice

Testing Strategies & Methodologies

Want to Start Career as a Automation Software Tester

I Learned the Course of QA Automation Testing using Selenium about a year ago but still I didn‘t get a Job. Please assist me to Start Career as a Fresher. of Automation Tester.

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Development methodologies

DevOps Upskilling Report: 3 takeaways for QA

The most vital element of digital transformation is, ironically, human transformation. Of course, delivering more compelling, more interconnected, and just all around more applications faster than ever requires a high degree of automation. But delivering digital experiences that truly matter to your business and its customers? You simply can’t do that without effective leadership, collaboration, and strategy. And that’s where the human element of DevOps is absolutely essential.We are constantly upgrading our technology stacks, but what about our people? What skills are most important for enterprise DevOps success today — and what’s the best way to develop these skills amidst the constant pressure to deliver more, better, and faster?That’s exactly what the 2021 Enterprise DevOps Skills Report is designed to answer. The humans behind the DevOps Institute — dedicated to advancing the human elements of DevOps — surveyed and interviewed over 2,000 IT professionals worldwide to discover the

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Executing performance testsBlog

Each performance testing activity is mapped out in the following workflow:Performance test objectives will need to adapt depending on results. The performance engineer will analyze these results between testing and tuning. Ultimately, the main objectives of a performance test are to identify bottlenecks and offer solutions. Below are the three key steps in executing an effective performance test.Performance test designHistorically, the design phase has been referred to as “scripting,” but new technology has made this phase much more complex today.Creating performance testing scripts is essentially a software development project. Sometimes, automatic script generation from the recording is mistakenly interpreted as the “whole” process of script creation, but it is only the beginning. Only in limited select cases will automatic generation provide completed scripts. In most non-trivial cases, it’s just a first step. Scripts need to be correlated (procuring dynamic variables from the serve

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Testing strategies & methodologies

Speed – Test The Important Things, Not Everything

Automation, particularly UI Automation, is fun, and useful. However, automated UI test performance can be slow. They have to spin up a browser session, load front-end components, and so on. It doesn’t take much for a UI test suite to start taking tens of minutes to run.I like Charity Majors’ recommendation of a 15-minute deploy time (15 minutes or bust!). Fast deploys are a key factor in building a quality SAAS product. But, this is impossible to achieve if you have an automated test suite that’s taking twenty or thirty minutes or even hours ⌚ So, how can we keep the time of our automated UI tests down? What are some simple ways of keeping your automated tests speedy? Test the important things, not everythingIt can be really tempting to want to write UI tests that cover every possible feature and flow. Every nook and cranny in the product. But, some of those tests might not be useful, in context. Does everything really need to be tested? I have a rule of thumb I like to use when adding

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anuvipChief Specialist

Testing strategies & methodologies

Chaos Testing – The new testing on the block

The world is talking about vaccines everywhere, thanks to Covid. What do vaccines do to us? We are told that we will not get sick. Instead, our body will build up immunity to the disease-causing microorganism, making it impossible for us to get infected now or in the future.This illustration has a lot of similarities to the Chaos testing. A computer system has its own limits and its own points where it can fail. If somehow we can inject it with variables that can cause disruption, the teams can identify the system’s weakness and the vulnerabilities present in it. The necessary step-by-step solutions can be put in place. The important ones will be the protocols that will eventually allow the computer systems to become even more resilient and fault tolerant.How is Chaos testing different from normal testing?There are many ways where chaos testing is different from regular testing.While chaos testing factors in the numerous touchpoints that are outside the control of IT teams, normal tes

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danielknottChief Specialist

Testing strategies & methodologies

The 3 Steps Mobile Testing Strategy

Your smartphone is your daily partner. No matter where you are, the device is with you. Smartphones are powerful supercomputers that help their owners solve any kind of problem from booking a flight to sending money to another account or to watching the latest movies. Everything is possible on the go, while the user is out of his/her home 📳Smartphones and apps are everywhere. According to several surveys, more than 6.6 billion people worldwide use a smartphone. That is more than 80% of the current world population. And since the devices play a central and very personal role in our lives, mobile users have high expectations of the device and the software running on it.These high expectations pose some challenges to companies developing mobile products. The overall quality of a mobile app must be the number one priority. The following article describes an easy establish three steps test strategy for your mobile app.Mobile Testing Challenges to SolveWhen you are working in mobile testing

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IOanPilot

Testing strategies & methodologies

Simulating Vision Problems In Chrome

The process of building modern software has as the main focus functionality. As a tester, you need to make sure that a user story fulfills all the acceptance criteria, that a specific business flow works as expected, and that in the end, the business side is happy with the implementation 💪In general, only after the functional requirements have been checked does the focus switch to the nonfunctional side and address areas such as security and performance.Even if focusing on functionality does lead to making the business side happy, it is my opinion that there should be a bit of a focus switch when doing the testing, a focus on the user. At the end of the day, the goal of businesses is to have their software be used by as many users as possible and to be accessible to as many users as possible.The Importance of Accessibility TestingThe type of testing that has the purpose of confirming that an application is usable for as many people as possible, including people with disabilities such

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anuvipChief Specialist

Testing strategies & methodologies

How to Select the Right Automation Tool for Website Testing

I keep hearing from young QA engineers whether manual testing has fallen behind automation testing in terms of popularity and demand. Rather than going deeper in this discussion, I would like to focus on the importance of test automation nowadays and no one can question that.“Quality at Speed” is the new mantra for companies and demand from customers. It means higher quality products must reach end-users but in a shorter time span than before ⏱ This is an important cog in the wheels for reducing time to market for customers. QAs across the world used this difficult demand as fuel for test automation’s impressive growth. The result is automation has become a game-changer by allowing QA teams to execute faster and more accurate test cases ✅Regression testing or tests that repeat themselves every sprint are the best candidates that needed to be automated the most. Frequent updates in the code will significantly increase the total cost in terms of time and human resources used to execute t

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Testing strategies & methodologies

Your performance tests are smelly!

IntroIn 1999, Martine Fowler introduced the idea of “code smells”, which he defined as “surface indication that usually corresponds to a deeper problem in the system.”.Code smells are not bugs, but rather certain code structures that imply bad design or shortcomings as far as readability and maintainability.Examples of such code smells include duplicated code, dead code or data clumps.Later in 2001, Van Deursen et.al further expanded on the concept of code smells and suggested that unit-test code should have its own set of smells.For example: Resource optimism; Fire and forget; Assertion roulette.In this article, I’ll extend on the idea of code smells and test smells to the realm of performance testing and load testing,SmellsSmells, allow us to give names to known bad structures.This way we can address these problems at any stage of the development process and discuss it.It ease on the communication between developers, it provides a framework in which these problems can be fixed, and i

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andreea-qaSpace Cadet

Testing strategies & methodologies

30 Software Testing Interview Questions

In your testers' career, you will find yourself from time to time either takinginterviews or interviewing other people to join your team. I tried to come up with alist of some software testing interview questions that I find both interesting andrelevant, regardless of which side of the interview I am on 😁 I am personally not abig fan of very theoretical questions - you can find those answers online. I also don'tlike trick questions - I don't think those reveal the actual skills of the person beinginterviewed.So without further ado, let's look over some interview questions you mightencounter. Software Testing Interview QuestionsI decided not to use the word "manual" for this section because these are questionsthat reflect generic software testing skills, which both manual and automationtesters should have 🤓From my own experience, I noticed that the more experienced the tester, the lesstheoretical the interview questions. So whenever you are at an interview, try todescribe as much as p

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