The Comprehensive Chronicles of Remote QA Teams: In-Depth Case Studies, Expert Insights, and Essential Strategies for Success

Introduction The remote work revolution has ushered in a new era for QA teams, bringing both challenges and opportunities. To provide a comprehensive look at the experiences of remote QA teams and gather insights from industry experts, we’ve compiled in-depth...

Meet Maveryx: Elevate Your Test Automation with Our Expert Support

At BetterQA, we are dedicated to finding innovative tools that enrich our testing and quality assurance services. Today we’re pleased to present Maveryx, a versatile test automation framework that is enhancing the way we approach testing. As a company committed...

Effective techniques for prioritizing software testing

Today’s article is about prioritizing! We take a look at how our QA team managed to tackle each task at hand by employing the most efficient prioritizing techniques for software testing.  It was a hot summer day, and the team...

Migrating from TestProject to Katalon Studio: A Comprehensive Guide

As you may already know, TestProject, a popular test automation platform, is closing its doors. This news has left many users wondering about their options and how to migrate their projects to a new platform. One potential alternative is Katalon, a comprehensive...

Lessons Learned: Common Mistakes to Avoid in Test Automation

As a software testing team, we understand the importance of test automation in improving the efficiency and reliability of our testing process. However, we have also learned from our mistakes along the way. In this article, we’ll share some common...

The Importance of WCAG guidelines

As a company that provides Quality Assurance (QA) services, it’s important to take web accessibility seriously. One way to ensure accessibility is to comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), a set of international recommendations for making web content...

Quality Assurance: more than finding bugs

A common misconception about quality assurance is that it’s mostly about finding bugs. But QA is more than just finding bugs in a software product. Quality assurance helps ensure that the right processes and procedures are in place for delivering...

Is automation testing enough for your testing needs?

Is automation testing enough for your testing needs? Is there something else a QA engineers can do except write automation scripts? First, let’s break it down – what can we do to obtain and maintain high-quality software products? I have...

Bug fixing costs throughout SDLC

In an ideal world, your software product should work as intended, but the reality proves otherwise. All software products have bugs. To have minimal or zero defects in your product, it is essential to do software testing. Software testing should...

Outsourcing vs. In-House Testing

Software testing comes hand-in-hand with any software product. It allows the development team to see how a feature will work and how users will receive those features. This means a software product needs testing from the very beginning, even before...

Employee Spotlight 10: Crina Sava

Today’s employee spotlight presents our dear colleague, Crina Sava. Learn about our recruiter below! What is your role at BetterQA? I am a recruiter and marketing analyst at BetterQA. I take on tasks like recruiting new people depending on the...

Mobile Testing iOS vs. Android

For years, companies and people have gravitated towards mobile devices for their online activities. With this growing trend, software development companies have adopted a mobile-first approach. Software testing has also taken a turn because of the growing mobile-centered market.  Mobile...

Employee Spotlight 09 Marian Lazar

It’s that time again! Here is our next employee spotlight: let’s talk about Marian Lazar! What is your role at BetterQA? My role here is as a quality assurance engineer, and I’m currently working on two projects. On the second...

How to properly onboard a remote software testing team on your software development project

Many companies outsource their software development projects in today’s world, where technology is advancing at light speed. Over 70% of the world’s largest companies outsource their software testing team.  A large community of software testers could help your business grow...

Positive & Negative Testing

The main objectives of software testing are to check and validate that the software product works as intended and to enhance the software’s quality. The two major types of software testing are functional and non-functional testing. Positive and negative testing...

Testing Behind The Scenes – Digital Health Platform

The digital health industry is transforming neuroscience through digital biomarkers. These digital biomarkers are establishing a new standard for both pharmacological research and clinical practice.  This week we talk about our manual software testing services to get a closer look...

Non Functional Tests You’re Not Running (But Probably Should!) (guest post)

It’s been a while since most companies realized that simply developing software does not guarantee success. Building successful software also means testing it to ensure quality. In this process, several non functional testing types are crucial to evaluate the software you’ve built. ...

Tips & Tricks on time management at work

Time management is the key to working smarter and not harder, as projects can get very stressful and complicated. To this end, we decided to interview some of our colleagues on how they use time management as quality assurance testers...

Getting Started With API Testing

If you are a junior looking to enhance your skills or a more experienced tester looking to revise your knowledge, you came to the right place.  This article will present what API testing is, what tools you can use, and...

Employee Spotlight: Camelia Sfîrlea

For our next employee spotlight, we present you Camelia Sfîrlea! What is your role at BetterQA? I work as a Marketing Analyst. My responsibilities vary from doing Lead Generation searches to writing technical articles for junior testers and assisting with...

Bugs of the month: May

While you can find a lot of information on the most common types of bugs on the internet, we decided to ask our testers about the interesting and out-of-the-ordinary ones.  Although not all of them are project-specific, the context might...

A comparison between Selenium and Cypress

Our last article tackled Selenium, its history, the set of tools and usability within the web-testing framework, and how to get started on your journey with Selenium. This time, we decided to dive deeper into web testing tools by making...

Employee Spotlight 06: Alex Boda

We are back with our employee spotlight series and presenting our manual testing team to you! This time, we talked to Alex Boda. With an exciting background in special wedding effects and even managing the event planning team, Alex embarked...

Testing Behind The Scenes – Smart Data Integration Project

What is a data integration platform? A data integration platform allows IT professionals to bring together data from multiple sources and provide a comprehensive, precise, and up-to-date dataset for BI, data analysis, and other applications and business processes.  A Smart...

The 7 Principles of Testing 

The seven principles of testing have been established by the ISTQB as testing and software development has evolved over the years and are considered the core of testing.  Principle 1: Testing shows the presence of defects  Software testing indicates the...

Acceptance/ Sanity/ Smoke Testing: A QA Guide

Let’s talk about the differences between smoke testing, sanity testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT). Generally, there is some confusion surrounding the topic of smoke testing vs. sanity testing. You might also be confused about why UAT is next to...

Software Testing Career Path: Switching to QA Part II

Last week, we asked our colleagues about their experiences before and after switching careers to software testing. If you’re thinking about taking the leap yourself but are hesitant, check out these other two interviews we got! From Salesman to QA...

Software Testing Career Path: Switching to QA Part I

People from all fields are migrating towards a career in software testing. They don’t always have IT experience, but they all share a passion for technology and want to learn more about it. Our recruiters can vouch for it. We...

Employee Spotlight 05: Rucsandra Brun

Meet the manual testing team: Rucsandra Brun We are back with another employee spotlight. This time, we are presenting another one of our manual testers: Rucsandra’s two big passions are testing and video games, so there’s no wonder she tried...

Working From Home When You Have Kids

Adjusting to working from home during the pandemic has undoubtedly been a challenge, even more so if you happen to have kids. We wanted to hear all about it, so we asked our colleagues how they managed to have two...