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How Do You Triage Software Bugs?

In the real world, your team will have to deal with software bugs. A regular bug triage meeting can help you deal with them.

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Bug List Piling Up? Ignore or Learn from Them

So after some time, your backlog might start to have a number of bugs logged in it. What to do about that bug list?

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Snagit: Add It to Your Toolbox Today!

One of my favorite tools I use while testing is Snagit from TechSmith. (It's also useful when creating user documentation.)

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Exploratory Testing: Looking for Patterns

Being able to look for a pattern, especially a non-obvious one, has been a useful skill and one I still use a lot. Here are few examples.

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QA: How Get People to Like You When Your Job is to Find Problems with Their Work

As a Quality Analyst (QA) in the office, being the person looking for errors could cause a hostile relationship with developers.

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How I Used ChatGPT for Debugging a Process in Java

On a recent software project, one test would pass and one would fail with a “yarn not found” error. I turned to ChatGPT for debugging help.

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Spin the Wheel and Randomize Your Testing

As you test a story, how can you deliberately change up your routine? Here are a few ways to randomize testing.

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Setting Up (and Tearing Down) Unit Tests for an Entity Framework Core Application

Resolve Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbUpdateException and System.TimeoutException in Entity Framework unit testing.

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Logging a Bug: 2 Audiences For Your Bug Report

If you're a tester and find a bug in the app you're testing, what do you do? Here are some steps to take when making a bug report

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Tips for Doing User Research Without a Team

User research is undeniably valuable but also resource-intensive. So, how could you conduct user research without a team?

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Consistency Tests for Your App: Use Them to Catch Bugs Big or Small

One type of app testing I do regularly is a consistency check. I'll explain what I mean and give examples of possible errors this type of testing picks up.

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2 Ways to Catch Software Deployment Problems Early

Have you ever introduced a bug that lurked undetected until deployment? I'll describe a couple of these bugs and early-warning systems to catch them.

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