If a SQL server is the bedrock of your app or service, then its performance will be a big part in determining the responsiveness and fluidity of the end-user experience. As such, it is only by monitoring database performance from moment to moment and tracking usage trends over time that you can optimize it successfully.
How does your team or organization measure quality? People often equate software testing to good quality. If you have good testing practices, does that mean you have a good quality software product? Many teams measure process quality and don’t realize they forget about the product quality – which is what the customer cares about.
You have to assess the risks and the benefits of every decision you make in software testing and quality assurance. In this article, Sandra Parker explains how to minimize the risks of outsourcing your software QA activities.
Continuous testing, continuous delivery, DevOps – these are all terms very popular in the last couple of years, and they all involve a shift in the way we deliver products, software testing included! So who is responsible for the quality assurance nowadays?
There are many books about software testing, but Quality Code is among the best that I have read. It presents a philosophy about software testing that has been mine in my previous life as a software developer: the programmer is the main person responsible for the quality of its code.
When the software quality assurance people and the software developers are member of two different teams, bug discovery and reporting could often be a source of conflict caused by misunderstanding. This article explains how the quality of a bug report’s attachments can help to improve the communication between software testers and developers.
After having worked as a software tester, an agile coach and a programmer, I have seen and experienced software development from different perspectives. One of the things that has stuck with me the most is how limited our view of software quality is. While we struggle with our unit tests or test cases, we are missing out on some fundamental factors which affect software quality.
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