Software Testing Techie

This post is referred from ISTQB Agile certification syllabus plus I have included my own experience working in Agile environment as a Tester. Let's discuss about the skills first. I have categorized skills in two categories:  Technical Skills  Interpersonal Skills Technical skills include: Test automation : It is crucial to have at least a basic understanding of automation and the tools which are used for automating. Automation not only saves a lot of time and efforts but also, gives you quick defects on the newest build.  TDD (Test Driven Development) : This is used to develop code which is mainly guided by the automation. In other words, we call it "test-first" approach, so the test is written first and then code follows.  ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development): As the same suggests, this defines the acceptance criteria and helps developers, testers and business people to understand what they need to get the expected results. This approach incl...

Negative testing or destructive testing tests what a software is not made to do or boundary testing which can break the software functionality. In other words, what "Should not" defined under the requirements. Let's take an example, if a text box under the label "Name" can take only alphabets then when a numeric or special character is entered, it should be able to handle that properly by throwing an exception which could be an error message on the screen or a pop-up box saying “only alphabets allowed”. Another example could be: an input box which can take numeric value range from 1-99, so giving 0 or 100 as input would be considered as negative testing. When we want to build a quality product, both positive and negative scenarios play an important role. Without negative testing, we would not be able to know what makes the application crash and its limitations. I am going to list down three main advantages of doing negative testing. Advantages of negativ...