When doing unit testing, the code coverage rate is often used as the criteria for measuring testing performance, even in some cases code coverage may be used to consider whether the testing task is completed or not. So testers need to spend much time on designing test cases which can cover as many codes as possible. There are advantages and disadvantages about using code coverage rate.First let's check what is code coverage rate:code coverage rate= the degree of code coverage in testing.There are some ways to measure the degree of code coverage. Here we introduce some common used ways:1. State...

Over the years, I’ve come to hold some strong. opinions on testing, testers and the entire business of quality assurance. Inspired by this post on Facebook’s testing, I wanted to write this down so I can point people to it. Some of this is controversial. In fact, even mentioning some of this in conversation has caused people to flip the bozo bit on me.Most product teams don’t need a separate testing role. And even if they do, the ratio of full time dev:full time test should be in the order of >20:1. For evidence, look no further than some of the most successful engineer...

New IT trends will dominate in 2020. Big data management, customer satisfaction, security concerns, mobile apps, artificial intelligence (AI), test automation, DevOps and agile methodologies are a few of these rising technologies and trends. With their rise, Quality assurance (QA) has to take the testing game a notch up, especially with using smart test management tools for their testing. Test Automation StaysA report by Research and Markets estimates the global automation testing market to grow with an annual growth rate of 15% which would amount to $81.93 billion by 2023. In 2020, ...

Test automation is a vital step for any digital solution. With time, its architecture gets more complex, new features are added, and it acquires more users. Thus, your QA team needs to spend more time and effort to ensure the application usability and smooth user experience with no bugs and defects.So here are the things you need to consider before the start of the automation initiative:Define Success MetricsIt’s hard to measure success until you haven’t set up clear goals from the automation. It can be the complete automation of unit tests in the project, or increase the tests cov...

Image Source: UnsplashRecruiting the right participants is important to test your projects properly, but it's essential that your research participants are able to represent your target group, or the results won't translate into something you can use. Since recruiting for specific criteria can be time-consuming, follow these considerations that should make getting these types of user participants easier. Sharply Define Recruitment Topic CriteriaThere needs to be a required criteria before you try to find user participants. Otherwise, your user participants may not be right for the job. Co...