Hurry up! Why the hell testing is being delayed?
Almost every single software tester has heard this phrase from his/her test manager. Software testers are often pressurized to complete their testing before the deadlines. But in actual humans are not machines, they are able to work within their capacity of doing it. But that is not always a mistake of test managers also. When you are running a business in a highly competitive market, you often have to release products and services on time before your competitors do, and make that particular feature of a product common in the market. That’s what we call a race to stand out among the competition. But the reasons for the delay in releasing a software product from the side of the tester can include;
- Encountering with hard to fix and hard to track bugs and errors.
- Developers have taken much time to code
- Sometimes the system or tools organizations are using for managing test cases are not up to the requirements of the project.
Conducting software testing is not a child’s play that can be done in the least possible time. However, if each stage of the software testing process is being managed carefully then it might be possible that long hours can be reduced. Usually, the major time consumes in the software testing process is to manage test cases. To ease the test case management process, we have come up with 5 suggestions for you, that you can implement or act upon to make your test case management efficient and effective.
Here they are;
Strong & Potential Test cases – If we are talking or discussing strong and potential test cases, then we are trying to say that no longer encounter software testers with long and time-consuming tasks and procedures while replacing these lengthy tasks testing goals and objectives, that makes it possible for the testers to utilize their own creative and unique thinking capabilities. The least detailed test ideas will introduce changes. Everyone who performs this test will have different new ideas about what is important to explore and how to complete the work. This change helps testers discover important new errors.
Blindly relying upon specifications – The major problem arises when testers blindly rely upon the specifications. The specification may describe that a text field can only accept 5 characters, but cannot describe many failures. For example, what should a user do when they want to enter far more than 5 characters or submit a page without any value in the field?
Good and clever software testers always come up with the reasoning that specifications can be incomplete or have something missing, while they would try their best to reach out to other programmers and managers for better guidance in this regard.
Enhanced Test Case Management – Market is chock full of tools and systems specially designed for the purposes of managing test cases effectively and efficiently. But the problem comes when the organization asks its software testers for an inaccurate system or tool to use for managing tests. An inaccurate or inappropriate tool means that the system is not aligned with the project requirements. Test management tools for Jira are one of the best options for organizations in this regard. But keep one thing in mind, never utilize restrictive tools that make testers bound to follow rules and procedures instead of having use of their creative and curious nature. Better tools incorporate TCM, but they also provide other tools to help testers share information about their ideas, what they tested, and what they found without slowing them down.
Automation at the right time and right place – Testers often make a mistake via initially automating the graphical user interface. However, they should automate the right things first. However, using UI automation tools dedicated to IoT devices can provide unprecedented test automation value. A large number of teams can receive or achieve more value by automating code close to the API or lower version.
Final Thoughts
Getting the most out of minimum time is an art a few master in. Software testers must be expert enough to get more out of minimal efforts and to do more in minimal time. Although timetables or schedules are strict when it comes to the software development life-cycle, yet a software tester must find the shortcuts to cope with every situation.
