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Decide What Test Cases to Automate
It is difficult to automate all test test cases in given application testing scope or suite, so it is important to decide what test cases should be automated in order to minimize manual testing effort, cost and improves application quality. The benefit of automated testing is related to how many times a given test can…
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Testing Principles
Testing Is To Find Errors The 1st principle is “Testing is the process of executing a program with the intent of finding errors”. The 1st edition has “finding an error” rather than “finding errors”. The problem people have with this principle is they believe that testing is about showing that a program or system works.…
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Five Reasons Not To Do UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
Many projects go live without going through UAT, with a variety of reasons given to support the decision not to do so. Here are five reasons with a discussion of how they fit against the five project characteristics: Scope, Resource, Time, Quality and Risk. 1) The Project is Late Lack of Time is the most…
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16 Things to Do When You’re Bored of Testing
Testers are very enthusiastic at the beginning of their career. But when learning curve is saturated they start feeling bored. They quickly get tired of writing same bug reports and executing same test cases again and again. They simply don’t feel challenged. Almost all testers have this feeling in their career at some point. Especially…