Test manager eBook? We’ve covered many different types of software testing in our recent guide to software testing, as well as in many individual posts (check out our testing archives here). Beyond knowing the ins and outs of software testing, it’s helpful to learn from those who have traveled the path before you to learn from their mistakes and leverage the tips and tricks they’ve learned along the way (and graciously decided to share with the development world). That’s why we rounded up this list of software testing tools.
There are a lot of great staff out there and typically with testers I find attitude is everything! Sure, you can learn great technical skills but if your team members don’t have the right attitude or intuition for testing you will probably be out of luck. If you are lucky enough to have great Test Leads or Testers you will probably find they have the right attitude and social skills to deal diplomatically with people of all levels in all sorts of roles. JDI is always a good approach! Speaking of tester’s intuition, check out one of the earlier blogs in the series on using your intuition, Testing and Bad Smells: When to Investigate Potential Bugs. Thanks Penny for a great post!
How would you like to have all the software testing knowledge you need in one comprehensive book? Whether you want to level up in the software test management field, or gain useful knowledge on the sector as a whole, A Test Manager’s Guide is the resource for you. As a young graduate I started looking for potential career opportunities and this eBook has shown me the beauty and complexity of the Test Manager profession from a theoretical standpoint. Read a few more details on A Test Manager’s Guide.
Testing is about reducing risk. Testing, at its core, is really about reducing risk. The goal of testing software is not to find bugs or to make software better. It’s to reduce the risk by proactively finding and helping eliminate problems that would most greatly impact the customer using the software. Impact can happen with the frequency of an error or undesired functionality, or it can be because of the severity of the problem. If you had a bug in your accounting software that caused it to freeze up for a second or two whenever a value higher than $1,000 was entered, it would not have a huge impact. However, that would be a high enough frequency to be very annoying to the customer. How can a professional manual tester who runs routine tests regularly become more creative? There are some useful pieces of advice that might be of help to any tester.
Isolation software testing advice for today : Perhaps there are other things that you can automate (support chat bots, performance monitoring) that previously the team did manually but are not so ideal for distributed teams. Computers can work day and night and don’t worry about spreading viruses (or at least not that kind!!) so automation is a good approach for any tasks that it’s feasible for. It’s easy to forget the people and focus on the product, but the move to 100% telework, especially when there is a wider national disaster (like the current Coronavirus) can actually make things worse – people have more time to read the news, check social media (twitter) and generally get stressed out. The good thing is that having work to do keeps people’s mind off the wider picture, but balancing family/home/work time can be stressful. Read more info on https://cania-consulting.com/.