Automation Coverage

Automation Coverage is widely asked metric by management to see how much of test case repository is automated. Managers use this metric for estimation of manual efforts and automation scripts execution time etc. Automation coverage percentage cannot give good picture unless what kind of test cases...

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How mind maps are useful in testing?

I have been using mind maps since many months, but recently I started using them extensively using in test design, and test ideas. As visual presentation is more powerful than linear representation, I prefer using mind maps whereever I use multi level multiple bullet lists. Earlier I used...

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Why students are not passionate about software testing?

Yesterday I attended alumni meeting of my college where I completed my post graduation. I gave a presentation on software testing, opportunities, skills required, how to improve skills etc. Very surprisingly, not many of the students knew that there are many people involved in successful release of...

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Thoughts on Automation - I

Automation is always an interesting topic. It adds a lot of value to testing especially when it comes to data driven tests, end-to-end flows and business logic validations. The strength of automation lies in the strength of good manual tests and very good test data. Many times automaton engineers...

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First Post

I have been thinking to blog on software testing since many years, and finally I could make it. I will start posting my understanding and experiences software testing. Stay tuned for updates on this blog. I have great inspiration from eminent testers in India and across the world like James Bach, Cem...

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