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Can a Manual Tester survive in software industry without learning Automation?
There will always be smart technical people who do not like to code. There will always be ways of taking advantage of their talents.
I'm a coder. And I love my manual tester. She sees the world ...
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What should Testers do if they are not able to find good defects in the product?
Testing no longer means testing
Confused? We can imagine! The purpose of testing used to be fairly
clear–“Testing is the process of executing a program with the intent
of finding errors”. ...
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What should Testers do if they are not able to find good defects in the product?
I'd like to address the reporting aspect of the question. You say...
I just keep on writing excellent test cases and executing them, but then I don't have anything to show to the management. ...
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Who is responsible for pinpointing bugs?
If request sounds reasonable (which includes taking into account my other priorities), I would spend some more time researching.
If not reasonable, I will respond "sorry this is the best I can", and ...
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Can a Manual Tester survive in software industry without learning Automation?
Test automation can NEVER replace manual testing.
One classic argument is test automation can never catch random bugs that can be caught via manual exploratory testing.
I have had two colleagues in ...
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How should a tester deal with a bug found in production?
There will always be bugs that get past a tester and land in production. I have even had bugs that where in my face, we researched it, thought it was a fluke, because we couldn't reproduce it and then ...
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Good practices to audit test automation code
As others have said: code review.
It is not uncommon for code like assert true == true to be used as a placeholder during test automation development (I personally would use assert true == false or ...
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Who is responsible for pinpointing bugs?
It depends.
As Joe Strazzere explained, it is a matter of discussion between devs and testers. The question is what factors to consider in such a discussion. I think Danny R. Faught explained that ...
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Can a Manual Tester survive in software industry without learning Automation?
Can a Manual Tester survive in software industry without learning Automation?
Survive - Yes, but be valuable and desirable on a job market in the long run - No.
Let me expand on this thought.
You ...
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Can a Manual Tester survive in software industry without learning Automation?
Short answer: it depends, but in my opinion: YES.
Long answer: it depends... on the company, projects, and business.
As a senior test analyst, you possess all the necessary strengths that make a ...
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Senior management expected bug discovery rate to match their expectation
There's not enough data for any trend to be clear.
You found ~26 bugs in the last half of May. You found ~27 bugs in the first half of June. If the bug discovery rate keeps going like this, you're ...
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How to deal with Automation team if not all members are sound in scripting
No matter what else you do, you will need your team lead's approval before you act.
I recommend that you take some proposals to your team lead, after you have done the following:
Measure skill ...
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One repo or separate repos?
It depends.
Right now you might not see much need for a single repository design. Later, you may find your opinion changes.
You might want to use a single repository if
you need to keep your ...
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How to deal with not motivated testers?
We have several "testers" who are involved in manual testing and test
automation, but all of that part-time. Some of them are not really
interested in testing and test automation as a field and ...
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Who is responsible for pinpointing bugs?
Many companies I've worked for shared a policy...
...and that policy is:
Testers are free to consult with developers while attempting to characterize, isolate or reproduce anomalous behavior.
Once a ...
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Is checking web content for typos and spelling mistakes part of QA or testing?
I'm always on the lookout for grammar and spelling errors - purely because we're here to assure quality, and typo's aren't professional.
It's usually not the developer's fault because they just copy +...
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Can a Manual Tester survive in software industry without learning Automation?
You will probably be okay for the next five to ten years, but I think that after that our programming practices might be so refined that you'll struggle to catch bugs that won't be noticed by the ...
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What are the signs of an understaffed QA team?
I will answer this question with Agile iterations in mind. (An iteration could be a full Sprint or a single-user-story-cycle if you do Kanban or swarming.)
The QA department is understaffed when:
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Detecting observation skills during an interview
Great Question
As per my experience, it's very difficult to get a right employee who has very good judgment, sharp focus, attention & great observation skills.
Earlier it was very difficult to ...
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Senior management expected bug discovery rate to match their expectation
There is a gap in communication between you and your senior management.
Personally, I do not think senior management take the first bug discovery diagram too seriously. It is merely an idealistic ...
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Senior management expected bug discovery rate to match their expectation
Some bugs may take days to track down and report correctly (to be reproducible). And if bug is not reproducible, bug report is worthless.
Tell your management: "be careful what you ask for: you will ...
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Who is responsible for pinpointing bugs?
But, what are the general ways to avoid having or deal with such
conflicts keeping the relationship between the teams healthy and
productive?
Both QA management and Development management must ...
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How to set up a Testers Guild
For a QA guild I would consider some of the following:
Book clubs
Brown Bags
Lunch and Learns
Demos to non-guild members
Rewards, awards and presents
Internal Testing Conference Day
External ...
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How to differentiate myself from other Testers in the team?
Apart from obvious activities like test data creation, test case
execution, bug reports...what other initiatives can a QA engineer ,
take which will help raise his value to the project/Client.
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What should Testers do if they are not able to find good defects in the product?
My testing motto has always been this. "The purpose of testing is to reduce the risk of implementation." I have always found that when a testing organization is graded simply on the number of bugs ...
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Good practices to audit test automation code
Review test automation code.
Run each automated test at least once before you write the code it will test. (Of course, this means you'll have to write the test code before you write the code it will ...
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What should Testers do if they are not able to find good defects in the product?
In addition to the other answers, it would seem important to me that you find out IF you are actually letting bugs slip through. The way you write this would make it seem the software is up and ...
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How to assess QA employee performance?
Is is quite hard to assess the productivity of a QA engineer.
It's easy to try and use things like
'time spend at the workplace', 'number of bugs found', 'certifications', etc.
The problem is that ...
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Good practices to audit test automation code
Code review will do it.
Management, senior managers need to be aware of the value of having a review. They have to actively allow effort and time for reviews. This is normally the hardest part. Some ...
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One repo or separate repos?
Running all tests at once is something that a Continuous Integration server should do for you, not something you do manual as it lets you wait for a long time. Let a server do the work and reporting.
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