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3 Ways to Give Directions to Exploratory Testers Who Are Working from Home

I need to focus my testing on the most critical areas of an application. So how do I stay aligned with developers when we can't meet face to face?

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More Ways to Test – Nightmare Headlines

Is your assumption that your app will work perfectly and that all the services it connects to will never go down? It's time to rethink that.

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More Ways to Test – Learning from Fairy Tales

When testing software, you have to be creative. One of the best sources of inspiration is fairy tales — specifically "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".

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More Ways to Test – Bugs Don’t Take Vacations

Only one of these scenarios resulted in the loss of a customer, but it was a reminder of how connected systems are these days, and how many types of interactions (and types of fail

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Five Quick Phone Tests

A list of quick "attacks" that can quickly surface common issues with mobile phontes.

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More Ways to Test – Adding Software Tools to My Toolbelt

Recently I've started using some tools that help me access data and get a better understanding and view of the app I'm testing.

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“Who Tested That?” Probably Someone Like You

The next time you find a bug in the wild, instead of being smug and thinking it would never happen to you, ask yourself if it could.

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More Ways to Test – Vacation Bugs

Do you know how your system performs in a realistic environment? Do your requirements still make sense? Are they up to date?

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More Ways to Test – Travel-Inspired Bugs

Does your website or app assume that the user has the same knowledge you do? Does it have outbound links that cause more trouble than they're worth?

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More Ways to Test – Testing Error Conditions

When you user makes a mistake (and they will), how does your app cope? Here are 5 examples of common ways users make mistakes.

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More Ways to Test – Using Tea/Coffee Breaks in your Mobile Testing

Getting away from your desk can add more variables into your software testing and can help mimic user behavior. Here are three way I incorporate it into mobile app tests.

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More Ways to Test – Alternating Phone Models Per Test Cycle

An approach to exploratory software testing on a variety of different phones — without duplicating work or wasting time.

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