If you have never heard of the buzzword “Agile” before, then you must have been living in Mars! This is what every Manager wants to have, but not everyone can actually pull it off in its true sense. Being a big supporter of agile technology, I have found the experience of implementing agile methodology…
Month: September 2016
Ego: Is it Good for a Tester?
Have you ever encountered the following? Raised a defect. But developer rejected the defect. You are sure that the defect is correct as the requirements do not match the Business Requirement Document (BRD). The developer is adamant and so are you. You reach a stalemate! You believe the requirement is wrong. But both BA and…
Surviving the Release Date
Those of you who are in the software testing industry, would have experienced this. You have worked long hours to meet a release deadline. Everything you have done has passed. All boxes have been ticked. All defects have been closed. All results have been stored in common repository. Test Summary Report has been issued and…
Developing Application without requirements: Pitfalls for Testing
Just like life, you may at times end up testing an application that has not been developed as per approved requirements. In fact, I have come across scenarios where business has provided some broad outlines and developer has gone ahead and applied his/her own interpretation of the requirements. The beauty about waterfall method of SDLC…
Automation in Testing: What is the best approach?
When you have to run regression testing on the same application many times, or when you are making small enhancements to the application and you, as a Test Manager, want to ensure that existing functionalities are not broken, you automate the application/solution so that the test cases can be repeated over and over again. So…
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