Device fragmentation is here to stay but automated and continuous testing significantly reduce performance concerns and the cost incurred to fix defects.Device fragmentation is a nightmare for developers of all stripes looking to grow their user base. In fact, it’s the kind of problem that only gets worse the more successful your app becomes. The […]
One awesome part of crowdtesting and working with a crowd of professional human testers: you can turn them loose on your app or website, and they’ll kick the tires and take your product for a spin, to make sure it does what they think it should, and doesn’t do anything it shouldn’t. This is a […]
The healthcare.gov website wasn’t broken because the government’s programmers are incompetent. It was broken because the government failed to test it enough before releasing it.
A basic rule of programming is that all software will have major bugs. This is as true of the best programmer in the world as it is of the worst programmer. However, all programmers tend to this mistake: only testing completed projects.
It’s easy to get taken in by the power and flexibility of crowdtesting. Real people can be testing your software or website at a moment’s notice.
We’ve established that both black box and white box testing are crucial to the development of great software and websites. Choosing between white and black box is a false tradeoff: they are necessary and complementary.
Now that we’ve looked at what white box testing is and what black box testing is, the natural question is which one is better.
Beyond white box testing, there’s black box testing at the other end of the spectrum. When testers don’t know anything about how the software has been put together, they are black box testers. Their lack of knowledge of the internal structure doesn’t mean that black box testers are completely in the dark. These kinds of testers […]
If you’re doing QA, you’ll eventually run across this term and wonder what it really means. Black box testing is easy to guess, but what does it really mean to do white box testing?
The most important part of your testing setup are your testers. They should be Unbiased Motivated Heterogenous What does this mean in practice? Unbiased: Testers should not be familiar with the software or website. If they already have ingrained habits and usage patterns, parts of your app may go untested or unnoticed. Potential bugs may […]
Today’s rapidly changing business environment makes a flexible approach to all processes essential, especially when it comes to the development of mobile apps, games, websites and other software. Companies have turned agile software development and continuous testing as a way to cope with the new reality of the market and its dynamic requirements. Modern development […]
