A complete guide to canary testing
Everything you need to know about canary testing: its origins, main goals, benefits, challenges, and best practices for implementing this testing type.
Quality Assurance
40 Posts
QA myth busting: Quality can be measured
Move past the myth that quality can be definitively measured and learn how to use metrics as signals rather than finite goals.
A guide to defect management
A guide to defect management: what it is, why it's important, how to design a defect management process, and what metrics to monitor.
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.
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.