Basic Elements of Usability Testing
12.07.2011
Basic Elements of Usability Testing: 1. Controlled and sometimes vast interviewing and probing of the partakers by the test moderator. 2. Use of a specimen pattern of end users which
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Assessing Bug Priority and Severity
03.07.2011
The majority of bug databases, whether developed in-house or through third-party tools have some fields that can be filled in-title, priority, severity, opened by, assigned to, and so on. I
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Usability Testing: Difference Between Purchaser and End User
24.06.2011
During determining the user proļ¬le in Usability Testing, you should understand the difference between the purchaser or buyer of the product and the actual end user. It happens so that
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Statistics of Errors in the Code
03.06.2011
According to western experts, the programmer makes a mistake on average once at five lines of code (including erratum). Approximately 90% of these errors is corrected by the programmer, the
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What is Component Testing?
20.05.2011
ISTQB Glossary gives us the following definition: Unit Testing (module testing): See component testing Component testing: Testing of individual software components (according to IEEE 610) Component: The smallest element of
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6 Basic Criteria For Testing Requirements
07.05.2011
Note: the article was updated in November 2019 Why clear requirements are so vital during the software development life cycle? How not to waste time writing them but get benefits
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Myths and Facts: Purpose of Software Testing
06.05.2011
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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Do you consider yourself an expert in testing?
29.04.2011
Note: the article was updated in August 2018. What distinguishes an ordinary tester from an expert? What knowledge and skills a professional QA engineer should possess? How to become a
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Siege is a stress testing tool for Web servers
15.04.2011
Siege is a utility for stress testing webservers. It was created to give developers the ability to check the resource consumption of its code in conditions close to real. Siege
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Top 5 Personal Qualities of a Tester
12.04.2011
This article was updated in October 2021. As a software tester, I often perform such tasks that are not directly related to the implementation of the testing: the management of
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Classification of Software Testing Kinds
09.04.2011
What is “testing”? The book Meshcheryakova MS “Software Testing” is given two definitions of this term: 1. Testing is a process of detecting errors in software 2. Testing is a
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