A test manager’s eBook

ISTQB guide? The list features tips and insights from experts on many of the less black-and-white aspects of testing. Such as considerations for choosing the right tests, creating a testing culture that sets the stage for successful testing among teams, prepping for tests, testing with greater efficiency, and other important insights to streamline your testing process and get better results in less time and, often, at a more affordable cost.

Getting your test environments sorted is a critical task, however this is often much easier said than done. Environmental issues are often the single most time consuming (aka time wasting) aspect of a test phase in any organisation. Key to getting the environments set up is the “who”. Who owns the environments? Who can create them for me? Who can fix them for me? Get the “who” sorted out – preferably they will be an expert in the environment – and everything else might just fall into place a bit better. Now… if only I could take my own advice and implement all of these 10 top tips my own projects will run smoothly! As I mention a few times in this article, things are easier said than done…

The ultimate ebook for more than software testing basics: How would you like to have all the software testing knowledge you need in one comprehensive book? Whether you want to level up in the software test management field, or gain useful knowledge of the sector as a whole, A Test Manager’s Guide is the resource for you. As a young graduate I started looking for potential career opportunities and this eBook has shown me the beauty and complexity of the Test Manager profession from a theoretical standpoint. Discover a few more details on Istqb Ebook.

Find your good enough threshold. Everyone wants perfect software, but budget constraints, business priorities, and resource capacity often make ‘perfect’ an impossible goal. But if perfection isn’t your goal, what is? Recognize that the goal of testing is to mitigate risk, not necessarily eliminate it. Your applications don’t need to be perfect — but they do need to support your business processes in time to leverage new opportunities without exposing companies to unnecessary or untenable risk. Therefore, your definition of quality may vary by application. As you initiate a project, get the right roles involved to ask the right questions: What constitutes perfect versus good enough versus unacceptable?

Quarantine software testing advice of the day : Perhaps there are other things that you can automate (support chat bots, performance monitoring) that previously the team did manually but are not so ideal for distributed teams. Computers can work day and night and don’t worry about spreading viruses (or at least not that kind!!) so automation is a good approach for any tasks that it’s feasible for. It’s easy to forget the people and focus on the product, but the move to 100% telework, especially when there is a wider national disaster (like the current Coronavirus) can actually make things worse – people have more time to read the news, check social media (twitter) and generally get stressed out. The good thing is that having work to do keeps people’s mind off the wider picture, but balancing family/home/work time can be stressful. Find a few more details at https://cania-consulting.com/.