Importance of Software Quality - What Does ‘Quality’ Mean?
We talk about 'quality' quite a bit in our line of work, we talk about:
- Quality assurance
- QA & Test
- Improving quality
- Ensuring quality
- The quality of the software
We talk about 'quality' quite a bit in our line of work, we talk about:
Topics: Software Testing, Quality Assurance, Test Teams
In testing, as in development in general, we rely on good documentation to help us ensure that we deliver the right product to our end users. These documents may be user stories, requirements, technical designs or any other document that you can rely on to “build It right” and “test it right”. All should all be subject to a critical review.
However, document review is not something most testers are taught and for many, the review will consist of little more than reading the document, pointing out typos and obvious mistakes. They are not aware of the two key elements they should be looking out for which are...
Topics: Software Testing, Quality Assurance, Document Review Checklist
Aftermath of the Halloween, I thought it would be good to consider if there are any ‘tricks’ to a successful interview? Over the past few months, I've drafted a selection of interview question templates to standardise the nFocus interview process. As part of this process, the templates have been used successfully to identify quality test resource for several clients who are now part of the nFocus team. Congratulations to those now hired!
Topics: Software Testing, Quality Assurance, Interview Questions
The higher education sector seems to be ever-growing with different faculties updating old student management systems to innovative new ones. Working on a project in this industry has a lot to offer and it can be really exciting to see how a system/application can evolve over different development and test phases.
As a tester of Quality Assurance in Education, this sector has the potential to expose you to many different types of testing. Here are just a few I have been party to so far:
Topics: Quality Assurance, Test Automation Approach, Higher Education Sector
Let's talk about job titles particularly QA Test Job role! The role of a Software QA Tester (or QA Engineer) is to review and analyse new or changed software applications, products, mobile devices etc. and to look for defects or issues so that these can be resolved before a software change delivery is released for operational use.
Quality assurance QA is commonly performed within a software delivery life cycle but can also be part of process mapping and similar periodic improvement and efficiency reviews or occasionally as a one-off initiative.
Topics: Quality Assurance, softwaretesting, QA Testing
Today, we welcome back our popular guest author, Renée Elizabeth Mineart.
It has taken me a considerable amount of time to get my head around this topic. I’m not sure, even now as I place fingertips to keyboard, it is the right direction for this blog. But I think it’s an important topic to cover and is perhaps not talked about often enough. So, I ask you to please, bear with me as we broach the murky waters of … (queue dramatic music) … Project Failure.
Topics: Software Testing, Scrum, Quality Assurance, Developer Based Testing, Project Management
It’s possible to keep your stakeholders happy, even if quality is not great, simply by managing their expectations from start to finish.
If I had to summarise this post in a few words, I’d say something like this:
Topics: Software Testing, Quality Assurance, Digital Transformation
Unless you’ve been hibernating for the past couple of years then you’ll be fully aware that digital transformation and artificial intelligence are at the top of every IT Directors list of things to do. Companies today are facing a couple of big challenges, staying ahead and on top of new digital technologies as well as providing outstanding customer experience. To be clear, digital transformation is the process of using new or modified business models, processes and customer expectations to meet changing business and market requirements by use of new and advanced technology.
Topics: Agile,, Software Testing, test automation, Quality Assurance, Digital Transformation
In Scrum, quality is defined as “The ability of the completed product or deliverables to meet the Acceptance Criteria and achieve the business value expected by the customer”.
Personally, I think that’s a pretty good definition and can be applied regardless of the delivery approach.
So how can we assure quality so that delivered products meet this definition? Sometimes, testing and quality assurance are used interchangeably so just to be clear, for this blog, by quality assurance I don’t just mean testing. Testing can be part of the QA process but for now I’d like to define quality assurance as a consistent (or at least regular) set of checks that are applied throughout the application lifecycle. There are 2 main parts to it:
Topics: Software Testing, Quality Assurance
I am very fortunate to have spent time on many projects/products with lots of customers and so I wanted to write a series of articles to go through my experiences and what I have seen. This blog is the first in the series and will look at modern development, quality assurance and quality control.
Topics: Software Testing, Quality Control, Quality Assurance
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