Development teams are constantly feeling the pressure to deliver software faster without compromising quality. With the growing popularity of agile methods, it’s becoming easier to balance the two. It’s vital,…
Everyone agrees that quality is an important part of software development. And a bad user experience is more likely to weaken brand loyalty than ever before. In fact, 73 percent…
External QA resources aren’t meant to replace internal QAs, but rather serve as a way to expand a team’s capabilities. Last week, Kristi Kaljurand, Testlio’s Senior QA Team Lead, and…
Quality assurance can be successfully handled in house and out of house. But how do you know which is the right move for your organization, and at what time? Today,…
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).