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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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Do you consider yourself an expert in testing?

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

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

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

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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Positive And Negative Testing

Probably all the testers know what a negative testing is. I even think that it is a favorite type of software testing for many of us. When you run a

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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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Analysis of Dynamics of Critical Defects

Over time the number of errors in the test program becomes less and at some point it has become necessary to terminate software testing. Determine this point is not so

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How to Involve Non-functional Testing?

Note: this article was updated in July 2019 Who would have thought that product development is only half the way to success?! No less important is to verify its quality

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7 Ways to Measure Test Coverage

This article was updated in December 2020. There is no one-size-fits-all guide to creating test coverage. This is why many testers could benefit from the advice on how to do

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Selenium 2 makes automation debugging easier

One of the parts of Selenium 1.0 that I never enjoyed was debugging automation that didn’t work. I had to faff about creating custom Firefox profiles with Firebug installed and

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