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?
Quality Assurance
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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.
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.
Embracing shift-left testing in software development: Moving towards proactive quality assurance
Learn how to implement various types of shift-left testing and take a proactive approach to quality assurance.
10 lesser-known and unexpected books to improve your testing
Go beyond roundups of best software testing books and explore books from other disciplines like cognitive science, systems thinking, and experience design.
What is the Definition of Done?
Discover what Definition of Done (DoD) is, its role in QA, along with how (and who) should collaborate to establish a shared understanding of the DoD.