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Analyzing and developing of different types of apps is not the same as reviewing and testing them. Developing applications is focused on building them in correspondence with users’ needs and problems that appear during the developing process are solved immediately (or should be). On the other hand, quality assurance is required for any kind of software and it is mostly provided through testing. The key point of quality assurance is to find the defects and failures of an application which has already been developed, that is why developers and testers have different duties and should cope with them in different ways.
It is necessary to note that the idea of separating tasks of programmers and testers does not mean that these obligatory should be 2 or more people. One person can be able to do both these jobs and it is required for a programmer to test all the codes he has developed (in other words, unit-testing is necessary) however it is always much harder to notice t...

911 goes offline for six hours in 2017, affecting over 80 call centers around the US. The loss of the $474 million customer investment makes Mt.Gox file for bankruptcy. The list of most prominent software bugs goes updated every year. Gone are the days when the users were a reliable source of feedback about your product performance. The market is just overwhelmed with the innovative app solutions, so the modern user is not that helpful anymore. And because of the choice we have today, the task is to get peopl...

We commonly perceive mistakes as something bad. But in reality, mistakes make us who we are. The human race would never happen without nature’s trial-and-error. Mistakes are meant to be learned from – it is one of the greatest ways for improvement. Even in the technological field, the most fast-paced industry, there is still a place for mistakes and the wonder of getting better through our troubles. That is why QA exists. We know that errors are unavoidable, but software...

Nowadays, smartphones are becoming more an increasingly important part of our life. Modern devices successfully replaced communicators, organizers, GPS navigators, photo cameras, music players and many other important gadgets, by simply combining all their capabilities in one compact, powerful device. Mobile devices impact our business and everyday life. But our smart devices are just useless multimedia toys with bright screens, and their main power is applications. Mobile applications are basic elements that bring sense to your smartphone. They make our gadgets satisfy our needs and wants. Bad quality undermines the marketing. Applications that are not tested well, with obvious bugs uploaded to Google Play or App store markets, will cause user’s indignation, low ratings, unsatisfied comments and a decrease in use, which would result in loss of market share to competition. That is why mobile app testing...

How is the magic created? VR Testing

Every performance has a preparation level, or if you want - backstage. That's the place where we can find an answer for the VR testing mystery. Let’s try to sneak behind the scenes and find out how VR comes to us.

There are different types of testing, today we will look closer to VR application testing. After developers finish their creative job, the application goes to testers. And here fun starts. QA Engineers checking all possible scenario, details, we can say trying to break the application. And all this follows one goal - to deliver perfect piece for the user. Different platform getting ready in a different way, so:

"Traditional" platforms

In this case, it should be a high-end PC, a console like the Xbox or PlayStation. The que...

Last time we have discussed Virtual Reality as another dimension and today we want to talk about ways how to get into this wonderland. Well, it turns out that it's not so hard after all!  There is the whole world dedicated to that topic, but we won't bore you with a long list of all VR devices.  Let's hold this thought and learn  more about the top VR devices on the market these days.

Here we have two  groups  of  VR devices such us Tethered and Mobile. The first group is all about Sony PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift.

The fall of 2016 was occupied by Sony PlayStation VR. With this device, you don't need a pricey gaming PC as an intermediary. Instead, it works with the PlayStation 4 console that you might already own.

Next going to be  HTC Vive, is the only VR system that tracks your m...

We are bumping into a concept of virtual reality (VR) more and more these days.But I'm pretty sure that not everybody understands what is VR exactly and how it works. Let's try to figure out this together.

Do you remember in biology class we were told that everything that we know about the world around us comes through our senses? In other words, our brain takes this sensory information and creates our own perception of reality. On another hand, if we will present to our senses made-up information, as a result we will get changed perception, basically new reality. In technical terms answering “what is virtual reality”  we will say that it is a three-dimensional, computer-generated environment which can be explored and interacted with by a person. That person becomes a part of this virtual world and able to manipulate objects or perfor...

Do you want to see the reverse side of the testers world? As you may know, we love to organize things (You betcha!). To Do Lists, schedules, graphics, classification, reports, boxes of things etc. Do you think it's boring? No way! Especially in the IT world! This desire made QA Madness team create fun and useful slang that we use with our co-workers. The other day, our testers created nicknames for each bug that they found during their work and use this classification daily. How's that happened and what they’ve made? See yourself: The story started on the moment when one of the developers couldn’t reproduce the issue reported by me. After investigations appeared that issue was reproduced only with my one test account and nowhere else. The developer called this issue “Unicorn” and I really liked this name. I shared it with my co...