Testing Tutorials – BleepingBugs https://bleepingbugs.com Candid Takes On QA Sun, 24 May 2026 18:05:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://bleepingbugs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-bb_IconOnly_transparent_bg-1-32x32.webp Testing Tutorials – BleepingBugs https://bleepingbugs.com 32 32 How to Build the “Imperfect” QA Process https://bleepingbugs.com/how-to-build-the-imperfect-qa-process/ Sun, 24 May 2026 17:51:35 +0000 https://bleepingbugs.com/?p=809 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. I got a lot of frameworks with a lot of boxes and arrows. None of it told me what to actually do on Monday morning.

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]]> How To Write a Sprint Test Plan https://bleepingbugs.com/how-to-write-a-sprint-test-plan/ Sun, 17 May 2026 19:51:51 +0000 https://bleepingbugs.com/?p=818 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 responsible for in that three week window. I’ll cover project and feature…

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]]> How to Write a Good Functional Bug Report https://bleepingbugs.com/how-to-write-a-good-functional-bug-report/ Tue, 12 May 2026 04:43:48 +0000 https://bleepingbugs.com/?p=669 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 blunt: you can’t fake a video. A screenshot proves nothing…

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]]> How to Load Test Your Backend with JMeter https://bleepingbugs.com/how-to-load-test-your-backend-with-jmeter/ Sun, 10 May 2026 16:46:23 +0000 https://bleepingbugs.com/?p=591 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 site that goes down during a product launch damages your…

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