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  • Testing for Beginners: Working with Development Teams

    Testing for Beginners: Working with Development Teams
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    Welcome back to the “Testing for Beginners” series! Today, we are looking into a topic that gets overlooked but is essential for your success as a tester: Working effectively with development teams. Understanding how to navigate relationships with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders can significantly impact the quality of the project and your satisfaction… Read more

  • Testing for Beginners: Structured Testing vs Ad Hoc Testing

    Testing for Beginners: Structured Testing vs Ad Hoc Testing
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    Welcome back to the “Testing for Beginners” series. In previous articles, we’ve covered the basics of testing, the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), writing bug reports, boundary testing, and input validation. Today, let’s look at Structured Testing and Ad Hoc Testing and see the differences and advantages. What is Structured Testing? Structured testing is a… Read more

  • Testing for Beginners: Writing a Bug Report

    Testing for Beginners: Writing a Bug Report
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    You’ve just performed some input validation tests, and you’ve encountered a problem: the ‘Last Name’ field is displaying an error message like “Invalid Last Name,” no matter what you enter. So, what’s the next step? It’s time to write a bug report. Depending on the organization or project you’re working on, you might hear these… Read more

  • Testing for Beginners: Boundary Testing and Input Validation

    Testing for Beginners: Boundary Testing and Input Validation
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    Welcome back to the “Testing for Beginners” series. After laying down the foundation with the basics of testing, it’s time to dive deeper into specific testing techniques. In this post, we’ll focus on boundary testing and input validation—two critical aspects of software testing that play a pivotal role in ensuring data integrity and even security… Read more

  • Testing for Beginners: Basics of Testing

    Testing for Beginners: Basics of Testing
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    Introduction Welcome to the first post in my “How To” series on software testing. If you’ve ever been curious about diving into the world of testing, you’ve come to the right place. This initial post aims to lay the foundation by covering the basics of testing, which is crucial for anyone looking to make a… Read more

  • Traveling for 18 Months

    Traveling for 18 Months

    In 2021, my family and I decided to sell our house, buy a camper, and travel. Besides seeing family and friends along the way, our only goal was to visit the states my wife and I had not been to together. Camper We purchased a 26-foot travel trailer that was a good fit for our… Read more

  • Automation Testing with Postman

    Automation Testing with Postman

    In an earlier post, I created a budgeting API that will be used as a reference. I created some tests in Postman in the previous post that were mostly manual tests. Today, I will show how Postman can be used to automate some of the testing. Postman’s Environment Variables Environment variables can be used to… Read more

  • Testing an API with Postman

    Testing an API with Postman

    In this series of posts, I will be going over how to test the API that I created in the previous post. I won’t go over how to use the tools too much since each tool has its own documentation. I will focus on testing the API. Postman I will start with using Postman for… Read more

  • Creating an API

    Creating an API

    I have been wanting to show various aspects of API testing, so for the past few days, I have been creating an API so that I can have something local to demonstrate API testing. This post will showcase the API that will be tested in the new few posts. As I have mentioned in previous… Read more

  • Automation for Creating Test Cases in Azure

    Automation for Creating Test Cases in Azure
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    I previously discussed how I used ChatGPT for test case creation. The test cases for Azure’s Create Item API were generated by ChatGPT and outputted into an XML structure. That’s where it ended. Although that could still be of benefit in some situations, there is still more automation that can be implemented for creating test… Read more