One reason why human testers are far better at finding bugs than automated scenarios is because testers aren't just validating the expected results. They are also able to recognize unexpected surprises and anomalies within the application.
For example, take a look at this application and assume...
I'm an Adjunct Instructor who teaches Java programming to college students. I was recently asked by Anna Royzman, President of A Quality Leadership Institute, if I taught my students about testing. For a moment, I felt a pang of guilt because I don't have any...
Behavior Driven Development (BDD) has become a popular approach in communicating requirements between stakeholders of agile teams. In fact, it's so effective that it's also being adopted in automation strategies by using Cucumber to write test scenarios in Gherkin (a non-technical, human readable language) and...
The Ministry of Testing recently launched Gem Webinars, and I did a talk on patent development from a tester's perspective.
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Feedback:
I clearly got a challenge for my new job. Identify something patentable. Thanks for inspiration, @techgirl1908 #testgems
— Maaret Pyhäjärvi (@maaretp) August 22, 2016
Interesting to...
Developers should not lead your automation efforts. I've never seen this succeed. In fact, many times I have been brought on to teams to clean up the mess that is left behind when developers try to lead this effort. The reason is simple. Developers are not...
Marlena Compton wrote a very interesting blog post on the power structure in tech and how she believes women and minorities are pushed into software testing roles.
Marlena advises...