Author: paolo
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Which tester are you?
Which tester are you? Throughout my career, I’ve had the opportunity to meet and collaborate with many individuals, particularly test engineers and test managers. I’ve observed significant differences between them and I want to collect some thoughts in this post. I came up with 3 main groups: I am testing but I don’t want to!…
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Testing with no test management tool
Testing with no test management tool? How is it possible? Can we actually store executions, provide metrics, control our project without a tool? This is probably a question that many people, mostly test managers, ask themselves. The answer is not simple, we cannot say “yes, of course!” or “no, not at all!”. In reality, it…
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Testing with SAFe
First of all, what is SAFe? To summarize it in one sentence, it is a framework that defines a way of working in a software project. To have more details, I advise to read directly on the official website. Anyway, how can we perform testing in a project using SAFe? The testing activities, in this…
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Exploratory testing
Exploratory testing is, in my opinion, one of the best way to find bug. Let’s imagine to perform software tests on a phone application, an e-commerce. We would have software requirements, all covered by software tests. They would probably run nightly, or at least some, depending on the test selection. How many bugs do we…
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What is testing?
Or, what do I think testing is? What an easy question. Or not? In my opinion, it is not that simple. First of all, there are so many levels, types and techniques, which even makes the choice difficult. Of course an article is not enough to touch all the points, but let’s try to write…
