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When you are starting your career as QA/tester or switching your career to software testing, the following concerns pop up in your head:

What are QA Tester career paths?

Is software testing a good career path to follow?

What is career growth of software tester?… Continue reading

Note: This is guest post written by Thomas Peham-marketing manager at Usersnap

Your software is acting weird. It’s crashing and the front end isn’t working as expected. Well, I guess it’s time to bring a software tester on board.

Software testers are responsible for finding and reporting bugs to developers.… Continue reading

If you are a tester, I would bet that you once thought of finding a testing freelancing job.

Of course, why not? Look at developers. Developers do a lot of freelancing jobs from building websites, WordPress theme to mobile applications…and they are making good money.… Continue reading

People say “forum is dead”…and it’s understandable

With the social media boom such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, I’m not surprised to see that forums are not received as much attention as before.

Just call me old-fashioned, but I find forum is still an interesting channel to discuss and get to know each other.… Continue reading

Note: I frequently update this post to make sure you’re kept up-to-date with the trends, skills and data.

It’s 2020 now and this year is special to me. I will celebrate my 14-year anniversary being a software tester.

Hurrah!!! (You don’t see, but I’m opening champagne :-))

Anyway, time flies…

14 years ago, I was a webmaster of a local shipping magazine while I was a last year student in software engineering.… Continue reading

Warning: This post needs to be read with care!

If you are in software testing or software development, you may know something about the so-call “tester vs developer” relationship. I don’t know who started the fight first or how come their relationships get worse, but it’s clearly that developers and testers often don’t like each other.… Continue reading

[Updated 3-2020]

I don’t know you, but if you like me, it’s very difficult to find good and trusted sources to learn software testing these days. Doing a quick search on Google, there are millions of result returned and you don’t know which one to pick up, or you pick one and then ask yourself “Can I trust this?”.… Continue reading

First, let me ask you a few questions

Are your bugs often rejected?

Are you bugs often assigned back to you and discussed back and forth to clarify information?

Do your leaders or managers often complain about your bugs?

If the answer is YES, chances that your bug report sucks

In this post today I will point out 3 simple reasons causing bad bug report and how to fix it.… Continue reading