Software Testing Techie

Welcome to Software Testing Techie Blog! Bug report sounds familiar, right? As testers, we all create one or more than one bug report in our everyday work but what mostly matters is how detailed do we create them? What details we put in and how other teams get benefit out of it. BUG!! I am going to share an example related to detailed bug report and how it affects the quality. Detailed bug report is one of the best gift you can give to your and also to development team. Let's see how: A detailed bug report should have 4 major things namely severity, steps to reproduce, expected result and actual result. There could be other fields depending on what defect tracking tool you are using for example, testing estimate, test cases reviewer etc. Consider an easy example where user logs into a website and found that home screen is distorted. So Let's define all above 4 major areas: 1. Severity: Since it is related to Home screen which is the most important part of ...

Welcome to Software Testing Techie Blog! Today I am going to write about something which we all observe but not pay enough attention to! Testing is something which is innate in all of us! Yes, we all are testing throughout our life :) The main reason could be the human behavior of not trusting anything. Remember the time when we were young and had a play guitar which was our favorite toy. How much testing was performed on it? We played with it until we broke it completely. Hilarious! Now observe a child when he is given anything to eat, he starts testing it by mashing it on the ground, looking at it number of times, beating it again and again and finally when he feels like it is good, he takes it in his mouth to eat. Testing is one of the most interesting fields, unlimited number of ways to test a particular software. But to enjoy testing, the only condition is to open up your mind and test. You will find that you are learning something new everyday and your job woul...