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. Most high-quality bugs are still found by humans, and manual testing isn’t going anywhere (ever). That said, automation…
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…
Test planning is an essential part of software testing no matter the size of the project or the team. A test plan ensures product coverage, keeps testing in line with…
Testing is often seen as the biggest hindrance to release. QA is known as the number one bottleneck. It’s the phase that’s always in the way. That’s not really fair,…