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We will probably say an extremely obvious thing now, but it’s so important that we can’t just skip it. So, a QA tester is NOT the same profession as a developer. They need different skills! However, they are equally vital for the success of your project. Finding an experienced tester is not an easy task to complete. These guys progress like characters in computer games. They start from the level 0, when they have virtually no skills, armor, and weapon, and level up until they become true professionals. This is how their career path may look like:   Not even a tester yet. Each of us can be a tester. Really, everyone ...

Creating software testing documentation may seem to be boring, but this doesn’t mean that you can simply skip this part of your project. Sometimes the documentation is the only way to save and share information about the product.

Test Cases vs Checklists

There are several types of the documentation: checklists and test cases. Cases are extremely detailed and heavy and take a lot of time. Besides, bugs can adapt to tests, and cases increase the possibility of this problem. Checklists give you more flexibility, but their functionality may at some point decrease due to the human factor.

Going into details

To avoid the mistakes, you can try to mak...

Just imagine: one day, you, an experienced QA tester who knows everything about testing software, completely switch to managing projects. That’s a good step forward, but being a project manager is not an easy challenge. No worries, we will give you some tips on how to survive.

Keep your priorities in order

You are not a tester anymore, so pay attention to planning tasks for your team. Don’t forget to communicate with your clients and control the deadlines.

Check the status of your project

Make sure that all the milestones are delivered. It’s better to do this ...

Talking about testing probably seems to be a pretty unnatural activity. Why should you waste your precious time on talking, if you can spend it on testing instead? Well, this may work in case you are the last QA tester in the world. But since testing is usually done on the team, it’s important to know how to talk about it in the right way. Here are several things to avoid: Talking as if testing is an easy task. Please, don’t think that testing can be formalized. If you learn nothing while testing the software, you are doing something wrong. Sure, you can still predict certain steps and use some patterns, but this doesn’t mean that testing can always be done in the same way. Counting the cases. No...

We have already talked a lot about quality assurance companies and quality control so that you know that QA and QC are extremely important things. But what does the quality mean? Can we measure it? What hides behind this word? This is a pretty philosophical question. We have no Aristotle or Nietzsche on our team, but we will still give you an answer. We are not philosophers, but cool testers, so we definitely know better. Here are 6 features which your customers would like to find in your high-quality product:

Functionality

This is the most important feature. Your customers simply want to use your product and get a result, and you have to ensure this. You must predict all the potential scenarios, and make sure that your product is functioning without a problem under any of them. ...

Every time you release a new product, you have to make sure that it works properly, and there are no bugs hiding under its stylish design. Quality Assurance and Quality Control are essential parts of this process, and they seem to be pretty similar. But they are not the same.

QA: To prevent failures

In other words, QA is the maintenance of your product’s level of quality. Its main mission is to improve both development and testing processes, which will allow preventing the occurrence of defects during the development lifecycle. Besides, QA implementation has a beneficial impact on planning and your team’s productivity.

QC: To detect failures

The mission of QC is to find all the defects AFTER the product was developed and BEFORE it will be released. It allows ensuring that the product meets all the requirements.

What is the difference?

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Let’s imagine – you have just created an amazing mobile app. You have already taken care of mobile testing services and fixed the bugs, so now everything works fine. But it’s not the time to relax, as promotion is the next step you have to take. Here are some tips which will help you to do this.

Use Social Media

Be easy to discover - such a strategy will increase the number of your app downloads. Do you have Facebook? Instagram? Twitter? If yes, great. If not - better create accounts there. Using social media will allow you to keep in touch with your target audience and inform them about all updates. You can also go for paid advertisement.

Create a Promo Video

A lot of people don’t watch a movie without watching a trailer - this thing also works with apps. Create a short promo video which will attract the attention of your audience and explain why your mobile application i...

The mobile market is growing, and nothing can stop its evolution. The diversity of available gadgets is impressive, and manufacturers still surprise us from time to time, creating absolutely new devices. That’s why app developers use emulators sometimes. The thing is that there are too many gadgets to take into consideration, while emulators allow to reduce costs and simplify the process of app testing. But here are several significant reasons to forget about using emulators. So, what is impossible without real devices? Prediction of real occurrences. Some things simply can’t be tested with emulators. For instance, battery consumption. Considering ALL user interactions. ...

Apple gadgets are not as essential as air or water, but come on, we can’t deny that these devices have taken over the world. Just look at those lines in Apple stores when a new iPhone is released… So that, iOS app development is a great thing to try. Unfortunately, bugs can spoil even the most interesting app, so make sure that your QA testers check the following things:

• Beta Testing. It’s a must, as your app won’t get popular if it’s not user-friendly.
• Cross-device compatibility. Your app must be compatible with different iOS devices. You have to consider sizes of the gadgets, their screen resolutions, etc.
• Installation - Uninstallation....