QA Wannabe – BLOG
A blog about all kinds of stuff from the QA field.
Am I suitable to become a QA?
Are you considering becoming a QA specialist? Apart from technical knowledge, which you can learn over time, a professional testing engineer should have some other skills - or maybe personal characteristics. Let's have a look: Being meticulous: Software testing is a...
Tips To Follow When Writing a Bug Report
We have already discussed the elements of a good bug report. Here are a few more things to keep when doing it: Tip 1: Be sure your bug is reproducible Sometimes the bug you find isn't really a bug. It is just a temporary glitch that was caused by a rare and temporary...
5 Technical Skills Every QA Testing Engineer Needs
You have realized QA is not just "monkey clicking." Now let's overview the few most in-demand technical skills in the QA field. Coding Once you start the QA career, you quickly realize it's helpful to know the basics of programming languages. This way, it becomes...
Functional And Non-functional Testing
Functional testing validates the software against specific pre-determined requirements. Non-functional testing, on the other hand, examines different aspects of how well the application works - things like response time, stability, security, behavior in extreme...
6 Common Myths And Misconceptions About QA
There are many misconceptions and myths flowing around QA (quality assurance). Let's take a look at a few of them. MYTH: SOFTWARE TESTING IS EASY; ANYONE CAN DO IT Reality: That is far from being true. The importance of QA professionals is often under-estimated and...
How to write a good bug report?
A good bug report is crucial for fixing the code error effectively. Although we all know that, it is not uncommon for a developer to get a notice like: » X doesn't work, application crashes after the login, etc.« This kind of report is unclear, not specified enough,...