Course materials
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Typical mistakes in bug reporting
01.02.2022One of the most interesting methods of learning is writing useless and rather harmful advice. In our blog there are a lot of articles about how to write the bug reports correctly, what attributes should be added and what requirements they must meet. However, in this article we will look through the things that should not be done and some typical mistakes of the beginner tester on projects.
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The «What? Where? When?» principle as the key to the success
05.01.2022While working with the bug-reports one must pay attention to the necessity of writing the summary clearly and shortly. The title itself must contain the information that is enough for the understanding of the essence of the bug at the first glance of it. Such a description helps to understand and reproduce the bug described.
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Types of testing overview
31.12.2021Knowledge of the types of testing is a necessary skill of the tester, it gives an understanding of approaches to software testing, helps to plan testing well, as well as to classify the errors found.
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Glossary of the Lecture 5 «Test design. Test cases» for the «Fundamentals of Software Testing» course
20.12.2021Glossary of the Lecture 5 «Test design. Test cases» for the «Fundamentals of Software Testing» course
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Facultative task for the «Fundamentals of software testing» course
23.07.2021Everyone knows that the effectiveness of the learning process depends on the skills of applying the acquired knowledge in practice. For students who want to try their hand at testing on a real project and thus earn extra points, we have prepared an additional optional assignment.
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Test case Summary rules
15.01.2021A test case is a professional documentation of a tester, as well as a sequence of actions aimed at checking some functionality, describing how to cause an actual result.
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Bug-report: about using «incorrect» words
14.01.2021No doubts, a good bug report is a high quality document. Writing a bug report is an important task, because that’s the main point of communication between a tester, the developer and the project management. A well-written bug report will not only create a good relationship/relations between you and the developers, but will also save company resources to work with it.
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Main attributes of bug-reports
14.01.2021Bug report is a technical document that describes a situation or a sequence of actions that leads to an incorrect functioning of the test object with mentioning the causes and the expected result.
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How to correctly write preconditions in test cases
13.01.2021In today’s «QA tips for newbies» rubric, we’re going to talk about how to compose test cases correctly.
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How to start writing the steps of reproducing the defect (bug)?
11.01.2021Today, in terms of the «QA tips for newbies» rubric, we will talk about how to describe the steps to reproduce a defect(bug) correctly. Basic rules for describing steps to reproduce a defect(bug) are the following: Steps to reproduce (STR) are interconnected with the result, which is formed by their means (Actual result). Steps for…
