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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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Four Web Accessibility Testing Tools/Practices to Start Using Today

If you're serious about making your site accessible, start designing for accessibility and testing from the start. At the end of a project is too late.

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Using Game Titles to Estimate Testing Scope

We came up with a number of different sized "buckets" for testing projects of different size and complexity, named after video games.

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More Ways to Test – Peripherals? I’d Forgotten about Those…

As well as testing the input combinations to your program and covering the OS and device combinations, consider the many possible peripherals.

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Test Reporting Like a Bad Food Critic

If all you report is the bugs that you found, things can feel very negative. The only positive result can be, "No news is good news."

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Breaking the Cash Register (By Accident and Not for Profit)

Think about how things could go wrong with your process. Are you sure bugs can't slip through? And if they do, how would you know and handle the situation?

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More Ways to Test – A Tester’s Consistency Checklist

One of the tests I do is a consistency test, which is difficult to automate, and testing for it can unearth different sorts of problems.

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More Ways to Test – “Alarming” Problems You Should be Preventing

After discovering a storage problem on my alarm app, I created a checklist to prevent common problems in my own app development. Here are my top three.

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