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Workbench Concept in Software Testing

Note: This article was updated in June 2019. Considering the variety of testing scenarios that depend on each specific product, the testers’ work has to be carefully planned and structured.

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Black Box Test Techniques. Random Testing

Design Test cases should be chosen randomly from the input domain of the component according to the input distribution. The input distribution which used for the test case suite should

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Do small projects need extensive testing?

Well, in this case you should think over the influence of project defects, not the scope of the project. Nevertheless, if extensive testing is still not justified, risk analysis is

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Useful Tips for Choosing a Test Automation Tool

For Functional testing it is important to support a specific development environment, the ability to create reports about testing, automatic registration of detected defects, presence of recovery-scenarios. For load testing

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Myths and Facts: Purpose of Software Testing

Note: the article was updated in March 2019. What type of people do you belong to: those who believe that software testing plays in favor of their product, or those

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Difference Between QA and Testing

Note: the article was updated in October 2018 Software testing and QA (Quality Assurance) are not the same notions. They have different goals, specific features and methods to apply. Let’s

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Purpose of an Independent QA Audit

The Software Engineering Institute/Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM) describes periodic independent audits of the QA activities and work products of an organization’s QA group.  This is specifically stated in the

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Best practices for “Best practices”

Note: the article was updated in September 2018. We face the “best practices” definition quite often. But what does “best practice” mean? Who defines what practice is the best one?

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Software Testing Checklist – 5 Steps to Success

Note: this article was updated in April 2019. Nowadays, any ordinary actions, important events or the entire working year are easy to control with a proper checklist. Numerous procedures that

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27% of QA Teams Don’t Use a Bug Tracker

Note: the article was updated in June 2018. According to a Data Research conducted by Testuff, a provider of solution for test management activities, 27% of test management tool users

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