Understanding quality circles and how to adapt them for remote teams
Learn what quality circles aim to achieve and how to adapt them to quality assurance work both in-person and remotely.
Quality Assurance
37 Posts
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.
Embrace availability heuristics and balance your bias to become a better tester
Availability heuristics get a bad rep because they rely on bias, but what if you could use that bias to your advantage in quality assurance work?
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?
A complete guide to monkey testing
Learn what monkey testing is and how folding it into your testing strategy can create more robust and stable applications.
Is the world full of bugs or do QA professionals live in their own buggy world?
Developer Advocate Vitaly Sharovatov ponders the tendency for QA professionals to discover bugs everywhere they look.
Autoethnographic research made me look at testing from a new angle
Explore how autoethnographic research techniques overlap with testing behaviors and download a free template to try it yourself.
Chaos testing: what it is, where it came from, and how to use it
Discover how a Netflix database outage led to the creation of chaos testing and learn how to use this testing approach.
A complete guide to smoke testing
Learn what smoke testing is, when & how to perform smoke testing, and the advantages of incorporating smoke testing into your testing process.