Once upon a time, companies reached their customers by taking out a display ad in the yellow pages. The ad told a short story about goods and/or services, and provided a telephone number to call. The ads typically cost around $400/month – more if the ad was larger. If the target market was national, companies… Read more »
Posts Tagged: website testing
What is Ad Hoc QA?
The misconception in software testing is that ad hoc QA basically involves a tester randomly clicking around a website or application in the hopes of finding a defect. This could not be further from the truth. Ad hoc testing may be the flip-side to pure test case driven QA but it is just as important… Read more »
How Does Beta Breakers Acquire Such Great Software Testers?
The backbone of any good software testing company is its testers. These are the professionals who are “in the trenches” so to speak and are tasked with the pressure-filled job of finding bugs in software and communicating them clearly to the development team. They must not just understand but internalize the necessity for thoroughly exercising… Read more »
Obamacare’s Software Testing Failure
As we’ve discovered in recent weeks, bad software is a bi-partisan issue. Democrats and Republicans alike are outraged over the Obama administration’s health care law, and it’s not entirely due to the policy itself. Instead, the software used to implement the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, is in the spotlight for all… Read more »