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February 6, 2020 Uncategorized William Miller

Poor Software Testing Equals Poor User Experience – and Lost Reputation

Imagine this scenario: Your company has worked for months on a new product. You’re proud of what it’s capable of doing. The product has gone through the development process, but you’ve only done minimal testing to get it to market faster. You release it – only to discover that a significant bug was missed and […]

February 4, 2020 Automated Testing, Software Testing and QA William Miller

Software Test Automation; Test Faster & Cheaper

Test automation is one of the biggest buzzwords in quality assurance right now, and for a good reason. Adequately designed automation allows companies to quickly and inexpensively test code to find vulnerabilities before they become a problem. Like a lot of buzzwords, though, there can be confusion about what the phrase means. For example, many […]

January 29, 2020 Software Testing and QA William Miller

Software Quality Failure Recovery and Prevention

We’ve written on several occasions about the spectacular quality failure Samsung had with the Galaxy Note 7. Now, we’re here to give Samsung an equal measure of praise. Why? Because, after a few initial missteps in the handling of the battery problem, Samsung confronted their software quality failure head-on, propelling themselves to greater success. Samsung used […]

January 28, 2020 Uncategorized William Miller

Correct Website Load and Performance Issues

Have you visited your own website lately? For most of us, the answer is probably no. We set it up, upload up our content and then drive as much traffic to it. However, this is not a good idea. In fact, website load and performance may mean the difference between getting sales – or getting […]

January 23, 2020 Performance Testing, Software Testing and QA Josh Kitchen

No More Go-Live Performance Testing: Why It Must Happen Beforehand

More and more organizations understand that poorly performing applications are an unacceptable risk to their customers’ satisfaction – and their bottom line. Further, they are re-learning the old truism “first impressions are lasting ones.” Though some companies use customers as testers to save on software testing costs, this most certainly is not a best practice. […]

January 21, 2020 Performance Testing, Software Testing and QA William Miller

Fallacies of Performance Testing in an Agile Environment

The goal of agile is to make products as quickly as possible. Even the terminology of agile involves the word “fast” — sprints, daily short scrum meetings, and velocity — but this need for speed may not ensure more than a minimally viable product. Performance testing must also be part of the agile environment. Here […]

January 16, 2020 Software Testing and QA William Miller

The Testing Process: How Is It Done?

Most people are only familiar with the last stages of testing. But testing occurs throughout the software development process for nearly every type of software system. This includes websites, apps, and document processing systems, among many others. Testing Process: First Up Unit Testing Unit testing is usually the first test performed by software testing companies. […]

January 16, 2020 Software Testing and QA William Miller

Apple’s Project Catalyst promises cross-platform simplicity

In recent years there has been a move to web apps as companies look to trim development costs. And this has led to a “write once” and ship everywhere approach for desktop applications. Systems like Chromebooks have certainly played a part of this strategy. When ChromeOS brought mobile apps to a desktop form factor, they […]

January 14, 2020 Uncategorized William Miller

Using Agile Test Methods for Overall Quality Assurance

As more companies embrace agile development methodologies (which differs greatly from Waterfall development methods), many QA testers wonder how testing fits in with this newer, faster environment. What is the role of testers in terms of agile test methods? Difference Between Traditional and Agile Test Methods Traditional, Waterfall development methods clearly define when and how […]

January 9, 2020 Software Testing and QA William Miller

When to Write a Software Testing Strategy Document

A software testing strategy document is a reference software that developers, project managers, and software testing engineers use to outline their software testing strategies. They help keep track of important decisions, check past results, and ensure that all client and test teams are in agreement regarding the purposes of these tests. However, a software testing […]

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