How to Prepare for the ISTQB Exam

Software Testing is a great domain to start your IT career. No wonder it’s gaining more and more popularity! Whether you are a fresh graduate looking for your first job or just want to go on a different career path,...

Employee Spotlights 02: Flaviu Sălăgean, QA Engineer & Talented Guitarist in his Free Time!

It’s time for another employee spotlight: let’s talk about Flaviu Sălăgean! Having a head start in tech as a UI/UX designer, Flaviu Salagean quickly became one of the most valued testers at our company. Although not in his plan originally,...

BetterQA joins the top 7% at Pangea.ai!

We are proud to announce that we have successfully been verified as Pangea.ai vendors! That means we are now part of an exclusive community of software engineering professionals where transparency and quality are the only way in. To begin with,...

Employee Spotlights 01: Bianca Iancu

Walking in the Shoes of Bianca Iancu for a Day Our team is our strongest suit! It’s about time you get to know it through a new series of posts on our blog: employee spotlights! The first one to go...

The Importance of Localization Testing

ローカリゼーションテストは、ソフトウェアと ウェブサイトのローカリゼーションプロセスの重要な部分です. このプロセスは、ソフトウェアとウェブサイトが別の言語と地域にローカライズされている場合に発生します. ローカリゼーションテスターは、製品のテストを実行して、新しいユーザーが利用できるようにします。 Oh, we were talking about localization testing, of course!  Not sure if you understood what we were saying so far. What is Localization Testing? Localization testing is an important part of the software and website localization...

Top technology predictions 2021 (published in CIOApplications)

Despite the fact that 2020 was challenging and unpredictable, it has proven to be fruitful for many tech start-ups. We’ve seen how eager investors are to pour money into anything with the keywords ‘digital,’ ‘health,’ and ‘cloud.’ From this perspective,...

2020 Business Review

Despite the stress of the pandemic and project cuts, we still managed to reinvent ourselves. We found new, creative ways to obtain projects and still had time to train our resources by attending workshops and tutorials. Something we can say...

Organizing Testers and Testing

There is an ongoing debate about organizing testers and testing. Our plan is to summarize it for you. The first half of this article will be about testing, and the second is about testers. Essentially, there are 3 different types...

Challenges of Mobile Application Testing?

In the mobile world, many challenges are uncommon or uncritical in desktop or server software. Testers must be aware of these challenges and how they might impact the application’s success. Typical challenges in mobile application testing include: The impact of...

Introduction to Charles Proxy on MacOS

Charles is a fast and powerful recording tool you can use to inspect and analyze requests made from/to your computer. Providing many essential features, I’ll quickly describe below some of the main ones, including the SSL Proxying, Bandwidth Throttling, and the general overview...

Practical Audio Testing

How to create audio files with different specifications for audio testing One of the most basic methods to create audio files with different bit depths, sample rates, and bit rates is by converting a high-quality track to different file formats....

Theoretical Audio Testing

What is audio testing? Audio apps are extremely common nowadays and represent a significant part of our lives. To ensure an excellent user experience, their specifications must be tested thoroughly and work flawlessly.  In this article, we’ll discuss the theoretical...

Introduction to Postman

This article is meant to provide a short and comprehensive guide on how to use Postman. Without this tool, a QA couldn’t live long and prosper during the troubled times a Sprint leads to. What is Postman? In a nutshell,...

Bug Priority vs. Severity Levels – How to Identify Them

Here’s a good practice for ticket workflow – add priority and severity levels. Bug Priority vs. Severity Levels Although they’re connected, it’s important to note the differences between them.  Stakeholders, project managers, the product owner, or the client. This helps prioritize the workflow based...

The QA Perspective of Managing Local Git Repository

This article will show you the QA perspective of managing local git repository. You’ll also find out how to rebase and clean your branches. Buckle up! Managing your local git repository from a QA perspective 1- Rebasing your branches Basically,...

STLC – Software Testing Life Cycle

STLC – Software Testing Life Cycle is a rigorous process that includes many different activities. Test execution (including checking of results) is only one of these activities. The test process also includes test planning, analyzing, designing, and implementing tests, reporting test progress and...

JIRA Workflow

Ticket status explained: Submitted: All the tickets we create end up with this status, placed in the backlog. To Do: We selected the tickets in the current sprint but haven’t started working on them yet. *Note: You might not need both Submitted and...

File Searching in the Terminal

Finding the right information on time can be challenging when working with large files in the terminal. Especially log files, which contain lots of details about the activity of a system.  Luckily, there are also lots of file-searching tools to...

Angular CLI – Local Branch Compiling for Mac Users

If you want to find out how to compile a local branch (using a LAN IP address) to access it from any device, you’ve come to the right place.  This method of compiling is used for Web projects based on...

QA Cheatsheet

Our QA cheatsheet is a must-read before trying out a new feature.  Before we start, validate that the newly added feature integrates well with the existing system.  Most times, developers don’t know the entire product as well as a QA (who investigated...

How to Add a Bug

One of the most important roles of a QA tester, among other things, is to find problems within the software that's being tested and report them to be fixed. This means that reporting a bug correctly is essential to its...

QA Morning Routine

To be successful, a QA engineer has no choice but to be a well-organized person. Everything must be structured clearly so their QA work can be as efficient as humanly possible. From our experience, some habits have proven to be...

Protractor Quick Guide

Initial Setup In our case, following the Protractor’s guide didn’t help us out too much when it came to starting an automation project.  So, we thought we’d help other people by filling in the gaps we noticed and we compiled this Protractor...
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