QA - SpiderOak Engineering

Agile QA

The waterfall model for QA testing is out-dated and can hold back an otherwise Agile team. QA departments often accidentally become release gatekeepers instead of analysts – adversaries to development as opposed to allies. Agility matters for your entire development team, including QA.

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If at first you don't RCE, try, try again

This blog post is a cooperation between Chip (lead Semaphor UI engineer) and Reed (QA tester) in finding some vulnerabilities in Semaphor's URL and profile handling.

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Dogfooding, or, a Skeptic's Journey

I didn't see the point of beta testing on my own, at home, even if there was no expectation beyond just trying it out. Dogfooding felt like needing to work in my spare time, using my personal stuff to test it, and I just couldn't see what that would gain me in either my personal or work life.

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Exploratory Testing

QA's scope of duties is wide and involves an equal dose of structure and chaos. For this article we will be focusing on the chaos.

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Streamlining Tests for High Quality and High Impact QA

Just as an over-the-road professional driver can experience Highway Hypnosis from consistently engaging in the same activities, QA Analysts performing the same series of tests in tight succession can slip into a state in which everything starts to look like a bug, or nothing looks like a bug.

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Test Case Development, an Overview

Rote testing helps us check our assumptions and plans, while exploratory testing helps us see what might happen *beyond* those assumptions and plans.