December’2020 update I’ve made a workshop for this practice. If you interested in writing test cases and bugs titles better, take a look: Workshop: “Write better titles for your bugs and test cases” medium.com Prephase I am for more than 10 years in Software Testing already and during last several years I’ve become very interested in what QA Engineers write in their test cases. …

Setup the Context Imagine you are a member of a Product Team who develop a mobile app for listening music. And when your app plays music it has a widget on a lock-screen of smartphone. Below are screenshots with the widgets of two different music apps: Spotify (on the left) and Yandex.Music …

TL;DR When you have a list of items, for example: [a, b, c], and you want to get, for example, a linear distribution of them with usual .random() function then simply make a number of items in that list in linear distribution: [a, b, b, c, c, c] and then get…

Still surprised how many people in IT don’t know the difference. This post is to clarify this. Quantitative Quantitative techniques, metrics — is from “quantity” — is what we can count. Questions that quantitative techniques and metrics answer are: How much/many When What Who I.e. everything we can count. That’s why…

TL;DR Interactive single HTML file demo page is below. Play with it and then return back to get the insights! On the left half of demo you click, on the right half you filter those clicks. Simple and clear. "Do They Use?" service demo page What's happening here? In below is displayed an example of "your app" - some "simple monitored app" with links, input…dotheyuse.com In search of MVP Minimum Viable Product — is not a “minimum functionality”, not a “minimum…

Several years ago I’ve learned from Intercom blog post about Features Audit. I was impressed by importance of gathering of such data for Product Management for making Data-driven decisions. For example, if you could have known which features are used by Most of the users Most of the time (dark…

TL;DR clean icon means: “empty inside” icon with dot means: “something inside, but not steps” icon with lines means: “steps inside” Details When we work with test cases design we often: leave test cases without steps; leave test cases without anything inside but the titles; put information in test suites description; etc. …

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Preface Test Reports used to be the weakest part of SQA Mate test cases management tool. That’s because I knew that “the data first”. I needed tests first, then I need tests executions, and only after that I have had data to build test reports. Time passed by. Required data has…