Breaking down testing concepts one tutorial at a time. Follow along, get your hands dirty, and learn from real hands-on QA experience.
When I got my first QA Engineer job out of college at a small financial company, I did what any new grad would do. I googled “QA process.” Then I googled “what should a QA process look like.” Then I googled “how to build a QA process from scratch.” I read a lot of articles....
Most test plans I’ve seen start with scope before talking about risks. Here’s what we’ll test, here’s what we won’t. Which is fine, except it skips the question that actually drives all of it: what are the risks we’re trying to protect against? I write sprint-level test plans one per sprint, covering everything QA is...
When I started in QA, I thought I had bug reports figured out. Steps to reproduce. Expected result. Actual result. Screenshot. Every tutorial said the same thing, so I did the same thing. Felt solid. Then I joined a company that used freelance testers. Video attachments were mandatory — not recommended, mandatory. The reasoning was...
What Is Load Testing? I’ve written before about how software testing is just collecting information about the quality of your application. Load testing is the same idea, narrowed to one specific question: how does your software behave under load? That information matters because performance problems are business problems. A slow checkout flow loses sales. A...
