Guest Post: By Krishnaveni, one of the Top Testers at 99tests The Open Bug Experience     A tester to some extent by nature of practice can effortlessly spot a flaw in a product or an application. And when this happens, it is very intriguing to voice out the same. But the question that bothers is – would the issue that was voiced out by the tester reach the right contact or not for the issue to be resolved? A tester knows the impact, risk »

Source: More Testers – The Effect of Crowd Size and Time Restriction in Software Testing We at 99tests have seen more than 23,000 bugs being logged by over 5000 testers in the past two year. Here are some of key finding we have uncovered over the past couple of year. Specially the effect of a Crowd Testing team on finding high quality bugs in a short time. When does the performance of a Crowd Testing team over take the performance of a normal QA »

Software Quality has a unique requirement, that testers need to report to development teams on what works and what does not work. Now why does this core requirement cause testers to think in contradictory approaches to software testing? The first requirement of most development teams are to find out the features that work well. The second requirement is to then find bugs that are in the features. The first approach is the one taken in most team or »

Software Testers are highly skilled artists. Just like great artists practice their art to become a better painter, writer and performer. Testers too practice their skill to become better testers. Most of our top testers take time to write blog posts and share their knowledge and skill on the art and craft of testing. Yes most of the top testers know about heuristics, exploratory testing and some theory of equivalence partitioning, boundary value »

This has been quite an important question to Software Product Managers, who have had to deal with releasing software products on Time, on Budget and with High Quality. Now all these three metrics of Time, Budget & Quality are the classic metrics to measure the results of a product manager who is building software applications, be it enterprise applications which have well defined use cases. We at 99test believe that this is changing, depending on »

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