Things to Do: How to Stay Ahead of the Competition

Did you know that there are almost six million firms in America? Believe it or not, this number is still growing. If you happen to be eit...

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5 Important Things You'd NOT Want to Miss While Testing Video Games

Gaming, be it online games, mobile games, console games or PC games, is a multi-billion dollar industry and no child's play (pun inte...

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Tips for Becoming an Expert Video Game Tester

"Recently I came to know from a friend about career in video game testing and it sounds too good to be true; doing what I enjoy ...

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Top 5 Software Testing Traps and How to Overcome Them

If you are a software tester and have been in this field for a while then you might have run into situations (let me call them traps and ...

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Top 5 Common Myths in Software Testing

I just realized that it has been little over 5 years since I wrote about five software testing myths and it is unfortunate that I still s...

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Cloud Testing; How to Test on the Cloud?

Unless you've been living under a rock you must already be knowing that 'Cloud Computing' has been making a lot of buzz over p...

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Software Testing Diplomacy: A Tester’s Guide on How to Deal with Programmers!

When I started my career as a software tester , it hardly took me any time to witness the ongoing rivalry between the programmers and the te...

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Software Testing Interviews in India - Importance of definitions for a Tester!

Last Sunday I was having a conversation with Ajit, a tester friend who works for a reputed Software MNC. He has been in testing field for mo...

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How to test on a tight testing schedule?

If you have spent some time in the field of testing, then you must have faced situations where you were asked by your test manager to test t...

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Criticizing the Software that we Test!

A couple of days back I was contacted by a reader ( Sombit Chakraborty ) with the following question: Hello Debasis, I am a regular viewer o...

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Top 10 reasons why there are Bugs/Defects in Software!

Here is a question that has made many testers wonder on several occasions - “Why are there bugs/defects in the software? Why/How do errors c...

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Can test automation tools replace the human testers?

Vincent: “I keep hearing a lot about test automation tools. In one of those SQA Forums I heard of companies firing their entire manual tes...

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Does software testing add value to the project?

Last weekend I was invited to give a presentation on TDD (Test Driven Development) to a bunch of techies who largely constituted programmers...

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Priority Report!

Dolly: The more I read on the net about Bug Severity and Bug Priority the more I am getting confused. Everyone out there seems to have hi...

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