DISCLAIMER This article was written for educational purposes. I do not work at Google and it is meant to be an example of how the feature might be tested. A little backstory. As an exercise for my brain, I decided to test Google Calendar Task functionality on an Android smartphone…

Does a large number of open bugs in the backlog annoy you or your team? Let’s talk about what we can do to declutter the backlog efficiently. Yes, actualizing the backlog is a tedious process. …

I’m pretty sure you’ve already heard that russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, 2022. It’s have been one month since our country stands against russian aggression in this war. One month! But it feels like the whole year passed by for everyone who is in Ukrainian land including me and…

I think everyone can relate to this. Imagine, you come to a new project/company and you know almost nothing about it. The first weeks are quite stressful, as you need quickly figure out how the product works. A pretty common situation, when a QA Engineer needs to identify what particularly…

I want to share with you a story of how we implemented a Green Pass Mobility Wallet mobile app and gained 18k active users. You will find out the MVP version testing activities as well as the features of the latest app version. Green Pass Mobility Wallet is a native…

In this article, I will describe the last three steps from the test activities list. To have the full picture of what I’m talking about, please check Part I. Testing Activities: Reading test basis and extracting requirements from it. Test analysis (deciding which technique will help to test traffic rules section to…

You can test literally anything that surrounds you. Including traffic rules. As an example, I took one section of the Ukrainian traffic rules to show the tester’s thinking process as well as analyzing and testing any product. The steps we need to go through are below. Reading test basis and…

Often, developers cannot foresee every obstacle on the way to deliver on time a product to the QA team for testing purposes. And that’s fine. We are all flaky at estimation but don’t expect a miracle situation when the QA team can test a one-week scope in one day or…

According to my observations, I elicited several ways to testing time estimation: based on knowledge; based on testing sessions; based on testing type; based on expertise; based on bugfixes. Let’s deep dive into each of them. Based on Knowledge For instance, the tester who is familiar with a product for one month would…