Optimizing your mobile app QA testing: Traditional versus proactive test design

In QA software testing, the user is the boss. When software developers and testers get together to build a new feature, it’s easy for them to get bogged down in…

In Testing There Is No Silver Bullet: Situations where Manual Testing may be better than Automated Testing

The new norm in testing is to automate aggressively. It makes sense from a time-management perspective. Automated testing allows teams to increase testing cadence and volume by avoiding repetitive manual…

Questions Every QA Director Must Ask Themselves #3: What to do about Flaky Tests?

Flaky tests are worse than useless. At least If they were just useless, we could ignore them. What makes them worse than useless? For one, you cannot rely on the…

The economic impact of Testing-as-a-Service

QA trends come and go. What really matters is definitive ROI. Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS) is a trusted solution that helps companies significantly lower software failure costs. Before we look at why…

How Testers Can Help Deliver Great Customer Experience

I started my career in software testing back in 2010 when I was in my second year in college. Back then I really didn’t understand the depth of my job…

21 organizational tools for remote workers

The future of work is here… and it’s setting up shop at a cafe, couch, or co-working space near you. The amount of employees working remotely – and the companies making…

Does automated testing lessen customization?

Meaningful testing is imperative for accelerated mobile application growth. Testing for the amount of variables (network quality, battery life, available memory, etc) can help lessen the amount of unseen issues….

11 Reasons Mobile Apps Fail

The mobile industry is rapidly growing to an endless scope. Every day, new apps are added to app stores where they compete for user attention. On one side, this competition…

Outsourcing isn’t a bad word: how your business can benefit from third-party QA

Does your business need third-party quality assurance? If you have an internal QA team, this may be rhetorical – but it’s a question that still needs to be asked. In…