Modern browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome make your life easy as a software tester. Google Chrome is far ahead in the game and ends up a winner owing to the number of available chrome extensions for software testing. Extensions add more functionality to Chrome to help you get more work done in a short time, not adding much to your system resources like native app installations do. Approximately 70% of QST readers use Chrome. We testers love Chrome as extensions give Chrome an amazing capability to makes your life easy...

When you start small as a software development company, maintaining your test cases in an excel sheet might just work for your test team(s) as you might be developing the very first iteration of your application initially. But as a team grows, it becomes cumbersome to maintain test cases that way as you start focussing on so many other things in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). This is the time when you start looking at different testing tools and solutions available in the market. To solve your problem with managing test cases,...

Software testing techniques, methodologies and tools are always changing. Blame the emerging technologies and new platforms or accuse the advancement of new devices! Truth of the matter is, businesses around the world are transforming and so are their IT systems and software testing world is not immune to this phenomenon. Zephyr conducts an annual survey wherein 6000+ of its customers in 100 countries take part to answer some interesting questions to prepare a report. This year around 500 of testing professionals participated in this...

Planning to launch a new application, server or service and don’t know how it performs? Whenever there is a new feature being rolled out for any of these, there is only one way to find if these new services are bearing the load – to test it using load testing tools. As applications become more and more critical and show a potential of scalability, it becomes important to understand to test how they perform under load using testing tools. Load testing determines if an application is capable to support a specified load (for...

Years ago, software development was once a fragmented experience. Developers created a program then passed it along to testers for evaluation before releasing the finished product to consumers. Since the agile school of thought took the software development world by storm, however, more businesses have amended their practices to place more focus on a fluid production cycle, encouraging co-operation between individual members and teams as well as quickly accounting for emerging market and customer demands. As noted by Michael Kelly from...

Can a Software Tester become a Business Analyst? Can Business Analyst take up the role of a Software Testing professional? Do roles like a BA Tester or a Tester BA exist? How to switch you role from Software Testing professional to a Business Analyst, and vice versa? This case study is an attempt to answer these questions! In this case-study, myself and my friend (tester!) Anamitra Majumdar tried to explore what if the same person performs the role of a Business Analyst and a Tester? We first try to understand the roles of a Business...