Quality Assurance What happens when we turn our users into a QA department? User feedback has its benefits — they are your target audience, after all. But treating users like an extension of your QA department can be risky.
User acceptance testing (UAT): How to navigate the last development hurdle before production With user acceptance testing, companies can proceed with confidence or go back to the drawing board. Learn the different types of UAT and how to do it well.
Demystifying system integration testing (SIT): A guide for developers and testers Learn about system integration testing (SIT) to ensure seamless integration of application components and build a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Test Management Cross-browser testing: Why it's important and how to do it efficiently A comprehensive look at cross-browser testing, including what it covers, why its important, and best practices.
Test Management Software testing lessons we can learn from edge cases What we can learn from strange edge cases — the unforeseen problems that happen when an app is operating at the relative extreme of its normal parameters.
Test Management Flaky tests: How to avoid the downward spiral of bad tests and bad code Flaky tests seem like small problems but can compound if left unchecked. Learn the consequences of flakiness and how best to identify and remediate them.
Quality Assurance The test pyramid and its discontents, or, why no one agrees on anything How did one model become so prominent in testing and development when no one agrees on how to implement it? And what should we do with this model now?
Test Management The test pyramid: A complete guide Learn about the test pyramid, including its history, purpose, advantages, and disadvantages, in this complete guide.
Integration testing: A guide to the most confusing portion of the test pyramid Integration tests are often seen as the awkward middle child of the software testing world. In the test pyramid, integration tests are literally in the middle, and even amongst developers who prioritize testing, few agree on a tight definition of integration testing. At first glance, the meaning is clear: While
Unit testing: The what, why, and how Learn about unit testing principles from basics to best practices, so your team can benefit from the confidence unit testing can deliver.
Testing Events End-to-end testing: A complete guide Gerald Weinberg, author of the classics The Psychology of Computer Programming and Introduction to General Systems Thinking, once quipped, “If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” Decades later, in 2009, Jeff Atwood, founder of Stack Overflow, wrote, “I've
