The use of the developer options on Android, first of all, is necessary for specialists who must study/develop/improve or test this system. But sometimes even an ordinary user of a mobile device with this OS will find it useful to discover some interesting parameters and capabilities of the environment.

Every QA engineer knows about the standard pyramid of testing where unit tests are a basis of the whole software testing process, API is an interim stage, and finally, GUI tests which end the process of software testing. But what’s the difference between them?

It’s quite hard to develop efficient test scripts. Unclear, slow, and unstable tests are useless and their usage has more negative sides than positive ones. To understand whether the tests you are using are efficient, try to make your tests meet the following 7 principles of test efficiency.

All websites can compete to be displayed in the first lines of search results, by using special tools and algorithms. And here so-called meta tags play a great role and we’ll talk about them further.

The Network tab is present in every modern web browser and is aimed at tracking speed and also the time needed to upload a page and all files that are or can be present on it. Every junior software tester who wants to enhance a level of his/her professional skills should study and test all functions of the Network tab.

In computer terminology, the term “client” stands for certain software/hardware that interacts with a server to enable a user to receive data on the actions done by a system. All clients in client-server architecture can be notionally divided into two subtypes: thick and thin ones. Let’s analyze each type separately.

Why have QAs not found it? Is it exclusively their responsibility to assure the quality of software? This topic is really interesting and making us think. We’ll try to give answers to these questions in this article.

A software tester is one of the IT professions that become more and more popular every day. But what exactly is it that attracts an applicant? And where exactly should start those who want to become a tester? Let’s figure this out.

In this article, we will talk about some tools that are good for one who wants to analyze what is missing on a project and to know what basic changes are needed for better website performance.

This article describes concepts and principles of testing that are based on theoretical and practical analysis of functionality of web products and the related components.

When specialists perform testing of any program interface, they use the HTTP requests. Due to the information given by any error code after user request, a server can change the data processing. In a situation when there is an error and you now the result of the request, you can solve the issue by yourself.

Trying to resolve the problems with communication on a project, people solve not only current problems of relations but also build more qualitative and efficient ways to organize their working process. Getting rid of disputes and misunderstanding will help to make communication on a project pleasant and clear and this will greatly simplify the work on the set tasks.

This article is aimed at giving an entry-level tester the overview of the way a product version control system works: from the process of duplicating a repository to the function of creating a pull request.

In the software testing field, specialists use a lot of various heuristics to make a decision and analyze a problem during testing. They can be extremely useful when making suggestions if a person isn’t sure in the way how to start the testing process. Or it may even happen, that he/she has no idea what to do next.

This article will help a reader to track the entire development of the testing process, see what stage has been already reached and also, understand how we can simplify and improve the process of software testing inside a company.

A lot of QA specialists heard about such a concept as test design but a few use these methodologies. Why this is so? Indeed, test design techniques are a basic component of test scenario development. Let’s figure this out.

The job of a QA engineer is the role that entails communication with numerous people (developers, clients, managers, analysts, designers, and sometimes – potential users of a product) on all possible topics while performing software testing. Their cycle of professional communication is quite big and he/she needs to build respective and clear communication with each of them.