Tag - quality assurance

Mobile automation testing. To use or not to use?

To use or not to use – every customer asks themselves this question, when it comes to mobile automation testing. They say that development and supporting of UI auto tests costs too much. But let’s return to the statement a little bit later. And now we are going to discuss the following questions: what is mobile automation, who is it for, what for and do you actually need it?

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The Best Practices in Organization of QA Process for a Software Development Project (Part II)

Our previous article described how to build a template for a testing round and what and why we need for that. But such template is just a tool and it is useless when not used correctly. So let’s drill down into QA process and its procedures we are using to let the testing be flowing fast and easily. Below, we are going to share the detailed instructions as well as some QA process improvement ideas.
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The Best Practices in Organization of QA Process for a Software Development Project

This article describes our best practices in building the QA process for a software development project. What are our main goals in it?

Fast and featureful

First, the delivery of new software versions to end users as fast as possible is vital for software development nowadays. Fierce competition in the software market compels software companies to release new features sooner than their rivals to attract users. As a result, the Agile techniques have spread widely as they combine flexibility and short delivery cycles.
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Automated Tests: Why and How

If you aren’t implementing a prototype for some quick demo in some 8 hours, 3 days, etc. to archive it in a folder like the “trash” right after that, then you will have to think about the quality assurance, finding bugs, etc. Somebody will have to do this job after all. Whether you include the automated tests in the code development process or you totally rely on the testers, the automated tests will appear in your system sooner or later (or the project will die aborning).

The worst thing is that auto tests are also the code, i.e. all problems relating to the code development (the design, bugs, usability, performance, etc.) exist in tests. When you automate the testing, you actually implement the new functionality in your system. Thus, you should develop tests as any other features.

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