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Application and IT Infrastructure Performance Monitoring Using eG Enterprise Tool (Hands-on Review)

A Hands-on Useful Review of ‘eG Enterprise Tool’ for Application and Infrastructure Performance Monitoring for IT Teams:

The IT landscape has changed drastically over the last few years with the advent of new application development and deployment frameworks.

Gone are the days when we had client-server applications running on physical machines.

New technologies like micro-services are giving rise to cloud-native and containerized applications which use dynamically provisioned resources based on the workload demand.

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Career Shift from a Tester to Business Analyst – A Step by Step Guide

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A Step-by-Step guide for a Tester to become a Business Analyst:

A testing professional is required to thoroughly test the software developed to ensure if the software meets the end requirements of the customer.

A Business Analyst is also responsible to verify whether the software built and delivered meets the end customer requirements. This aspect of both the roles make it easier for a tester to switch to a business analyst role.

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Top Software Testing Trends To Follow in 2019

Get Ready to Check the Impressive Software Testing Trends in 2019:

Learn what trends would critically affect you and how to help yourself ready for the game from this informative article.

Nowadays, we witness enormous changes in the technological advancements as the world is becoming digitalized.

The year 2019 too will mark the continuation of tremendous changes in technology and digital transformation, thereby requiring the organizations to constantly innovate and reinvent themselves.

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Agile Scrum Methodology: Complete Guide for Developers and Testers

Complete Guide to Agile Scrum Methodology: (20+ Detailed Tutorials)

This is the guide for software developers and testers to understand and start working on the very famous Agile SCRUM methodology for software development and testing. Learn the basic but important terminologies used in the Agile Scrum process along with a real example of the complete process.

We have listed all the Agile Tutorials in this series for your convenience. Hope they will be of immense help to you.

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Code Refactoring: What You Need to Know About It

Understanding Code Refactoring: A Tester’s Perspective

The term ‘Refactoring’ is mainly used to indicate required code cleanup/redesign.

In this tutorial, we will understand the definition of refactoring, discuss the need for code refactoring, and review the impact of refactoring code on various project team members. We will also discuss the answer for the most important question – As a tester, why do you need to know about refactoring?

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Role of Business Analysts in SCRUM and Why is a QA Best for this Role?

Prominent Role of Business Analysts in SCRUM:

A Business Analyst who is shortly referred as a BA plays a very drastic and important role in SCRUM.

This person is the link between the product owner/customer and the technical IT team. Though we have come across several tutorials on our website on BA, this tutorial will somehow be a unique one and will explain to you the importance of BA in SCRUM.

Let’s Explore!!

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Are Testers Losing Their Grip Over Testing Due to Automation?

Amid Automation, Testers at the Verge of Becoming Automation Test Developers:

In this digital world, automation has become the core for businesses to grow and expand. Automation has revolutionized the way organizations operate their businesses.

The pace of advancement in technology has been on a continual increase for the last decade and lead us to a new automation age. The impact of automation is quite evident on distinct industries, including Software industry itself.

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Is Software Tester’s Job Really a Low-profile Job?

Software Tester’s Job – Is it really as low-profile as it is believed to be?

Sometimes, the decision to become a software tester is not a deliberate one for some of us, especially at the beginning of our careers.

Though the desire to be a successful IT professional is strong, we assume that the term ‘IT professional’ is synonymous with ‘Developer’. While being a developer is great and has immense potential, it should not be concluded that being a tester means the exact opposite.

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10+ Tips to Survive and Progress in the Field of Software Testing

These tips will make you not only survive but also advance in your software testing career. Make sure you follow them:

Tip #1) Written communication – I repeatedly say this on many occasions that keep all things in written communication. No verbal communication, please. This is applicable to all instructions or tasks that are given to you by your superior. No matter how friendly your lead or manager is but keep things in emails or documents.

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What is Early Testing: Test Early, Test Often BUT How? (A Practical Guide)

What is Early Testing?

Software testing should start early in the Software Development Life Cycle. This helps to capture and eliminate defects in the early stages of SDLC i.e requirement gathering and design phases. An early start to testing helps to reduce the number of defects and ultimately the rework cost in the end.

The various aspects of Early Testing which would help the QA Managers and Leads while developing or devising the Testing Strategy document in SDLC are explained here.

Adoption of Early Test will immensely result in the successful delivery of a Quality Product.

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14 Fundamental Leadership Qualities That A True Leader Must Possess

14 Fundamental Leadership Qualities: The Traits and Skills of a True Leader

Leadership is really a very vast subject.

The leadership characteristics, style, situations and the combinations that one has got to exhibit his/her leadership skills are quite different and in turn are numerous in number.

Hence, I decided to flow down my thoughts through this article to explain a few characteristics which I feel that anyone should possess in order to become a true leader.

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Load Testing With Real Browsers Using Tricentis Flood Element

Get Ready to Experiment Intelligent Load Testing for DevOps using Tricentis Flood Element Tool.

Load Testing is a very popular type of testing which all of us as testers must have come across.

So, while thinking of load testing, maybe, you are frustrated with the current solutions you are using and find it to be too difficult to write and maintain your tests. Or maybe, you are even thinking about doing load testing for the first time.

Either way, it’s a great first step to be thinking about load testing at all – which many companies don’t and suffer the consequences.

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Data Migration Testing Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Overview of Data Migration Testing:

It is quite often heard that an application is moved to a different server, the technology is changed, it is updated to the next version or moved to different database server etc.,

What does this actually mean?
What is expected from the testing team in these situations?

From the testing point of view, it all means that the application has to be tested thoroughly end-to-end along with migration from the existing system to the new system successfully.

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Cognitive Bias in Software Testing: Why Do Testers Miss Bugs?

Cognitive Bias in Software Testing: Have You been Influenced?

The testing world is moving at a very quicker pace with technological advancements in order to ensure “quality at the speed of light”.

“Continuous Integration, Digital transformation, life-cycle automation, shifting quality to the left to minimize costs” etc are some of the magical words that are swinging around. While we speak about these, the underlying question –“Why and how the defect was missed” still continues to be heard and remains unanswered as well.

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Making API Testing Simple with Katalon Studio

API Testing Tool Katalon Studio Review:

With the need for implementing API automation test for my projects, I have reviewed and developed proofs of concept (POC) using various tools and testing frameworks.

Honestly, it is a very challenging task to decide on the most suitable tool for my team of one senior QA and four junior QAs. There are several tools that can help with creating robust, light and maintainable scripts. However, they require technical skills. The other alternatives are easier to use but create brittle and temperamental tests.

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