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Think twice before you hire a QA engineer
When you’re ready to automate your manual tests, you might naturally think you need to hire someone with a technical skill set who specializes in automating end-to-end tests. That is, you might think you need to hire a QA engineer. It’s not an unreasonable assumption. But for many startups, it’s the wrong thing to do. QA engineers are quite expensive (in more ways than one), bottleneck release processes with their complex tooling, and can present other types of business risks.
Guide to Managing Unreal Engine Projects in Helix Core - Perforce U
Want to learn best practices and time-saving tips for managing Unreal Engine projects? This clip is from Course 9 of Perforce U College of Virtual Production, “Unreal Engine Project Management & Organization with Helix Core.” The course covers industry best practices for adding files, creating variants, establishing Helix Core naming conventions, and structuring levels and sequences. It also delves into how project managers can assign and monitor work in Helix Core and Unreal Engine, including how to manage tasks, identify areas of responsibility, and oversee workflow management.
Transforming QA Into a Strategic Value Added Initiative
Quality assurance (QA) activities are often seen as a necessary yet time-consuming and expensive process. This outlook can often limit the potential and impact of good QA. In reality, QA is not just about finding and fixing bugs; it’s a strategic value-add that can drive innovation, improve product stickiness, accelerate time-to-market, and enhance overall product quality. Yet, finding the balance between a necessary task and strategic impact can be challenging for many organizations.
Understanding the Differences: Smoke Testing vs Functional Testing
Quality and functionality are critical factors in software development. This is where testing methodologies like smoke testing and functional testing come into play. Smoke testing is a high-level, preliminary testing process to ensure that a software program’s most critical functions are working correctly. In contrast, functional testing is a more detailed and thorough testing process.
The Do's and Don'ts of Regression Testing
The modern-day SDLC methodologies such as agile, CI/CD, and DevOps are flexible enough to incorporate change requests in each sprint, which increases the probability of introducing errors in existing functionality. This makes validating existing functionality, detecting newly introduced bugs, and resolving them mandatory in each build release. Whether manual or automated, such software testing is widespread and referred to as regression testing.
Practical Guide to Defect management in Software Testing
Defect management is the systematic process of detecting, documenting, and resolving defects within software applications. A defect refers to any flaw or deviation from the expected behavior, which can arise from coding errors, incorrect logic, incomplete implementations, or unforeseen interactions between software components.
Manual Testing vs Automation Testing: get the best of both worlds
A balanced combination of manual and automated testing is the way to go if you want to achieve higher test coverage and efficiency. They cover for each other. Manual testing is easy to learn and do, but it is highly likely to create inconsistent test results, and sometimes it takes a lot of time and effort. On the other hand, automation testing requires a lot of technical expertise to create and maintain scripts, but it checks bugs much faster with higher consistency.
Sauce Core Training Parallelization
This is an overview of best practices to ensure effective parallelization and efficient debugging.