How JIRA Dashboard can make life easy for a Quality Assurance Engineer
JIRA is not only about tickets and bugs. Shushma Amarnath explains the great features of creating custom filters and dashboards that can help you track quality metrics.
Speaking of bugs, Cagri Ataseven wrote a great guide to The Software Bug Life Cycle (SBLC).
Implementing Availability SLOs in Typeform
Do you measure the availability of your systems? Cesar Lugo shares a story of improving their monitoring solutions and how they benefited from that.
Speaking of metrics, Diogo Nunes surprised me with the concept of Happiness-oriented Testing. This might be important if you Work as a tester and nobody gives a damn.
How can I trust my test suite?
Great question! Antonello D'Ippolito suggests using some metrics and indicators that can help you assess the confidence in your tests.
Also, Paul Grizzaffi wrote about Asserting Them Softly — Soft Asserts In Practice, explaining how it can help you better understand the failing tests in a test suite.
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When the build is green, the product is of sufficient quality to release
Mirek Długosz warns about the risk of relying on a single metric to decide on release readiness and advises on how to improve this process.
Additionally, José Carréra wrote a great article about: Are You Seeing RED? Restoring Reliability To Test Results.
Whole-team approach to quality is one of the main agile testing principles. Ryan Craven shares his experience of joining a team with that mindset and what impact it had.
On top of that, you might be interested in implementing some Metrics for Testing — Guide to Quality Assurance as Aroni Das explains.
What are some ways to make Selenium faster?
Test execution speed is one of the most watched metrics in test automation projects. Someone on Reddit is wondering how you can speed up Selenium tests and the community provided some suggestions.
Furthermore, Kavitha Rajagopal explains: Is Selenium tool relevant in 2022?.
Testing Center of Excellence Clarified
You might have heard of the Testing Center of Excellence framework for introducing testing standards across the organisation. Zhimin Zhan shares his opinion on it in the context of test automation.
In relation to that, Dilruba Malik wrote about Uplifting QA Teams Through Metrics.
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