API testing is a necessity for many apps today. Web servers, messaging queues, calls between different apps—all of these functions can make up the “logic tier” of testing, where multiple…
We had a full house last night at QA in the Bay, our regular meetup for software developers and QA professionals. This meetup featured — in addition to free pizza,…
The testing profession has no set college degree, career path or standard for skillsets, so how do you go about finding exceptional QAs? From innovative concepts like agile hiring and…
QA’s responsibility is to help ship the best product within the time, budget and other constraints defined by the business—not to seek needlessly costly and time-consuming perfection. Not to demand…
The right combination of manual and automated testing? We’re all for it. Humans still find most high-quality bugs, and manual testing isn’t going anywhere (ever).
There are a lot of scary CX statistics floating around right now. Like how 78% of consumers have bailed during a transaction because of a poor service experience. Or how…
Testing is a team sport. From gathering requirements to prioritizing and planning to dividing and conquering coverage, there are a lot of different people involved from different departments whose work…
I’ve been working on a new project — my video blog, Kristel Answers! I’m going to try and answer questions about testing, QA, entrepreneurship, and as often as I can….
[caption id="attachment_1259" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] From left: Kristi, Jeff, and Michelle[/caption] Earlier this month we hosted a webinar with two of our finest QA managers, Jeff Scott and Kristi Kaljurand. Jeff…