QA Basics

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Why Do Testers Use Jira?

While performing different software testing types, a QA team needs somehow to monitor, process and maintain the system issues that were detected. Every bug has its status, priority, and severity.

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Security Testing Tools

Nowadays, security of personal and corporate data plays an important role. And a huge attention is paid to thorough penetration testing, security testing, access control testing, etc. To check whether

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Types of Regression Testing

Note: this article was updated in December 2019. Regression testing is a type of activity designed to verify changes made to an application or environment, for example: after defect fixing,

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JUnit vs TestNG

Usually, in order to conduct thorough and detailed software testing, specialists use special tools and frameworks. It can be tools for automated testing or load testing, frameworks for system testing

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Smoke Testing vs Sanity Testing

Sanity testing is conducted after a build with fixed bugs and modified code is received. Its aim is to make sure that the functionality operates properly. This software testing type

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What Diagrams Should QA Be Familiar With?

The biggest problem of any software testing – you should test everything. And this “everything” is very hard to transform into a quantity form. But a tester should realize what

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Security Testing Myths

For various specialists, the notion ‘security’ has different meaning and includes diverse concept. In general, security means the combination of specific means that protect the product from malicious attacks and

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Why May Complexity Be Qualified as a Defect?

Nowadays IT sphere, especially in terms of software testing, permanently grows and improves: new advanced systems and apps, a number of startups, offering technologically and functionally complex devices appear every

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5 Open-Source Mobile App Security Testing Tools

To secure mobile applications from various attacks is not a simple task. Modern programs and apps pass thorough security testing in order to define the weak point of the system.

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The Procedure of E-commerce Testing

Probably, everyone even once has a deal with the e-commerce systems. But for the majority of end users, e-commerce applications have already become an integrated part of their life. Nevertheless,

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What Does It Mean to Be a Good Software Tester?

New technologies appear, deadlines get shorter, and the end user expectations – higher. From this regard, any software testing company places more demands on hiring candidates for the QA specialist

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