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
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Everyone is talking about DevOps but what about QA? I tend to call it DevQA as we are now working so closely together with the development team that manual testing is mainly limited to exploratory testing. The developers are in charge of the quality and we are assisting them in all steps and supporting them
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
Do you struggle automating tests and still executing them manually? Do you run tests manually which are already automated? No worries, you are not alone. Even in companies with mature automation processes one will always find reasons to either not automate or running automated tests manually. WHY DO WE NEED BOTH? These days many companies
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
So you know you want to introduce automation but don’t know where to start? You could go down the traditional route and automate each module. But what if it is an existing product with hundreds of modules already in place? It would take a looooong time (and cost) before you have caught up and when
You have caught yourself in a situation where your business demands more automation? You are a tester in a company where few people have both the skills and guts to dive into test automation? No worries, also manual testers can be engaged and involved when such an activity is required. WHY TO DO SO? Manual
Most of the people think that quality is the responsibility of the QA department but in fact it is the responsibility of each and everyone in the company. Quality is not a one time activity but a continuous process. It is not enough if one department or one person is in charge of quality, works
