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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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More Ways to Test – Quick Tests for Your Web App

So, you've got all your automated tests passing and are feeling good. Have you thought about and tested the following five things?

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The Day the F Went Missing

A few weeks ago, I was reading the latest Spin post and noticed that the "f" was missing from the word "find."

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More Ways to Test – Testing for App Consistency

If consistency between app and web portal is not always great, your users are going to notice. Pay attention to what your app is doing, and be consistent.

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Mind the Bus & Go on Red: Overcoming Biases and Assumptions

Want to overcome your biases and assumptions? Try setting aside a testing session where you deliberately do things differently and in different orders.

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More Ways to Test – Is it a Good Story?

In software testing, you could focus on the layout. But you should also look at the other qualities, the aspects that hold the "story" together.

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Time for Tea – 10 Ways to Test a Kettle

Looking at everyday items and wondering how they are tested can give you ideas about designing and testing your product.

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More Ways to Test – Quick Attacks on CRUD Apps

A quick attack toolkit for exploratory testing of Create, Read, Update, Delete apps.

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