No doubt that automation testing is sexy and impressive – it seems to be a great cure for the annoying process of more laborious testing. Imagine that you can write the crappiest, laziest piece of software and a magic automation tool painlessly finds any and all defects and helps you fix them. Sadly, this is not possible. But you probably already knew that. Nothing compares to a good human tester with extensive experience, advanced skills, and basic intuition. However, the human approach is not without its drawbacks either. Human testers are more expensive, and that’s only if you can actually … Read more
As a Test Management service provider we believe that we should help our customers to maintain their preferred other testing tools – be it bug trackers or automation tools. There are many great tools out there, and each of our many users has their own reasons to select one of them, which best fits their needs. Testuff tries to enable simple integration to all of these tools. For years now, we have been adding integration to bug trackers and automation tools, usually upon request of customers. You can find the major and more popular tools on the list, but at … Read more
In the testing community, lots of companies use many different automation tools. It saves a lot of trouble going through repetitive tasks that the computer is quite capable of doing by itself. At Testuff, we don’t try to compete with those tools. They’ve been around for a while, they do a pretty good job, and trying to beat them at their own game is not what we’re after. Nevertheless, we do our best to integrate with as many automation tools as we can (as we do with bug trackers). The only problem so far is that they can’t do your … Read more
Even though I am ultra busy testing Testuff 1.0, that’s coming out very very soon, I decided to take some time out and to conclude this crazy series of posts. We’ve seen why automated testing rocks. As I’ve stated before, it’s more accurate, work faster, harder, for a longer period of time, for less money, with no complaints and no quitting. We’ve also seen why human manual testing rocks. Humans are self maintaining, adaptive to the environment, creative, recognize objects better than machines, have built-in natural language processing, and also excellent learning abilities. So what is the summary of it … Read more
The machines have made their move in the previous episode. To sum it up, they are more accurate, work faster, harder, for a longer period of time, for less money, with no complaints and no quitting. Sounds just about perfect doesn’t it? But wait! It is time for the humans to fight back, to show why in certain aspects their manual testing is way better than any testing automation can be. Let’s see what they got going for them that the silicon based life forms cannot beat. Human Testing Pros Self maintenance. Humans are (usually) capable of taking care of … Read more
Continuing where the previous introductory post left off, we continue to discuss the epic battle between the ruthless testing automation machines and the brave manual testing of the human QA army. To make it fair on both sides and let them wage their battles, let’s see what makes each of them so great and vice versa not that great. Automation goes first. Testing Automation Pros Accuracy and rigorousness. Testing automation is extremely accurate and rigorous. Be it counting (try to count to 20,000 out loud and see how far you get without making mistakes or getting tired), mathematical calculations, even … Read more
One of the songs by New Zealand’s Flight of the Chonchords, which is by the way an amazing show that music and Borat fans must watch, is about how in the distant future, the year 2000, the humans are dead. Robots used poisonous gasses to poison our a$$es. Robotic beings rule the world and the only dances left are the robot and the roboboogie: Humor aside, some winds in the QA world are blowing this way, bringing forward the machine uprising, or Judgement Day if you will. I’ve recently been informed that a major company in my country fired an … Read more
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