As a QA Engineer I’m coding on a regular basis, be it for writing automated tests, be it for generating test data, be it scripting for automating reports and process and more to help with bits and pieces. Having some coding experience always helped me to understand the developers a little bit better. What are
Have you seen the gource visualizations of git repositories? Gource lets you create beautiful animated tree visualizations of git repos, with the root directory at the centre, other directories as branches and files as leaves. There are also representations of the different programmers contributing to the project over time. Creating such video visualizations on mac
Your test scenarios have become quite numerous and you are about to lose the overview? You are looking for a clever way to keep them well organized and want to increase the maintainability? TAGS One way is to add tags to the tests using annotations. There are multiple annotations available @WithTag, @WithTags and @WithTagValuesOf. As
Did you ever had a dispute with a developer about testing or a bug? What could be a good way to bring testing a little bit closer to them? Most developers (especially in the games industry) enjoy a good challenge and they strive to become better at their job every day. Take the chance and
After the results form our Beta Community Testing were proved successfully we started to brainstorm on how to mitigate the high fluctuation of our testers. The main focus was on improving the motivation over a longer time period. LONGTERM MOTIVATION As there was no goal a tester could achieve over time we started to give
While we were setting up Beta Community Testing we asked ourselves what makes games successful and is it something which can also be applied elsewhere. Soon we stumbled over the term “Gamification” but what does it actually mean? Gamification is the concept of applying game-design thinking to non-game acitivities to make them more fun and
At the start we only had a mildly inactive beta server which got updated a couple of days before the first live release. But still a lot of issues made it into the live release maybe also related to the fact that only features “ready for release” were activated on Beta. We realized that we
When testing mobile applications details are everything. It might be easy to default to OS emulation but you might not figure out what you missed on an actual device. DON’T EMULATE, ROTATE! It seems to be a no-brainer but you would be surprised how many developers would forget to test the behavior of their app
When you are starting out on a QA project, with a small team, using spreadsheets to manage your testing is often sufficient. However, once the project becomes more complex: multiple platform releases, versions or a growing team of testers, managing those spreadsheets becomes another task in itself. If any of the below mentioned signs sound familiar it’s time to consider shifting
For developer defects are an integral part of the software development life cycle. The more efficient a bug report is the more likely the defect will be fixed. Reporting a bug is no rocket science but to become a pro in testing you need to achieve this skill. Following some tips which hopefully help you
