Documentation - Chris Kenst

Documentation

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Appropriate Test Documentation & Formatting

Appropriate Test Documentation & Formatting

The Question Recently in an online forum a tester person asked: Does someone have a simple example of test case (excel sheet) format? I am the only one tester in my company and we are trying to arrange the test documentation. Any advice or example will be useful. I wish

A typical day of Testing (circa 2018)

A typical day of Testing (circa 2018)

Recently I found myself repeatedly describing how I approach my testing role in a “typical day” and afterwards I thought it would be fun to capture some things I said to see how this might evolve over time: Background * At Laurel & Wolf our engineering team works in 2 week sprints

18 GitHub Projects for Testing

18 GitHub Projects for Testing

Aside from it’s many awesome lists GitHub is a really good place for open source testing tools, libraries and frameworks (and their corresponding code). I’m pleasantly surprised by these new (and sometimes old) testing resources, so I’d like to highlight many of them in the hopes others

Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Charters in GitHub

Since CAST 2015 I’ve wanted to implement an interesting idea that could potentially give my testing greater visibility and greater scrutiny: Putting exploratory testing charters into our project tracking tool. At work we use GitHub to host our code which means we use GitHub Issues as our bug tracker.

Feedback from a Developer (without knowing it)

Recently someone asked one of my developers if we created formal test plans. Since the conversation was in an email, my developer cc’d me on it and responded saying he wasn’t sure but he had seen me create test cases in our bug tracker, SpiraTeam. He wasn’t

5 Ways to Revolutionize your QA

I can’t remember where I originally found this post and the corresponding eBook but the eBook is definitely worth taking a look at. Here is the former uTest blog post, now Applause blog post. The 5 ways or insights are: 1. There are two types of code and they