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January 26, 2013

Good Tech Talk - Making Better Software - QA & DEV

Today I checked this tech talk. This is very very good. **MUST VIEW** for passionate DEV / QA / IT Pro. Complete Tech Talk is inspiring, offers a lot of improvement ideas
 

Between 24:31 to 30:52 minutes

Very Good Joel talk on test skills, testing competency and also covers **Agile QA**
 
Summary of QA Talk
  • Benefits of Having QA in a Team
  • Benefits of Rapid Feedback between Dev & QA
  • Tools for testing + Functional testing both are critical
Between 32:34 to 34:37 minutes
  • How Writing code vs Developing a Great product differs?
Between 44:18 to 48:54
  • Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation
  • Intrinsic Motivation matters!!
 
Hope you enjoyed the tech talk. Happy Listening!!!

January 06, 2013

Good GTAC Testing Talks


GTAC 2011: The Latest in Google Test Tools

Tools covered in the session are BITE and Quality Bots

BITE - Browser Integrated Test Environment
  • Record Browser Actions, File Bugs Automatically without switching from your browser, Replay Recorded Actions
  • BITE is available as a Chrome Extension 
  • Records User Actions @ Browser Level
  • Track Actions while finding UI bugs during Exploratory Testing  
  • Bug Filing from Browser itself
  • Include Screenshots, Repro Steps while filing bug
Quality Bots - Automated Layout Issues Detection in Chrome browsers

With the Tools Implemented QA Cycle works as below
  • Run Quality bots to detect layout issues
  • Allow exploratory testing for Manual testers and capture test steps, screen shots, related data using BITE chrome extensions for bugs identified
  • Automated Bug Filing using BITE from browser itself
Tools + Exploratory Testing with test steps captured makes it easier to reproduce bugs

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Happy Learning!!!