Maximizing benefits of attending conferences

Significant software testing conferences of the regional or international level are highly popular among leading practitioners or industrial professionals worldwide. Popular forums experience active involvement of software industry, government as well as academia for exchange and sharing of experiences, learning or ideas. Conferences offer an exclusive opportunity for the general visitors to share the same platform with renowned attendees or world class speakers from the nation and abroad as well.

Purpose of software testing summits

Built on several themes along with the latest market issues or topics relating to software testing analysis, such international forums provide everything starting from assurance to confirmation. The summits with their more enhanced latest editions display experiments, ideas or experiences to explore new challenges or suggest best practices along with techniques to successfully deal with the theme. The presentations or discussions focus on how an establishment transforms itself on multiple aspects such as process, people, tools and technology. Discussions mainly focus on the best organizational practices to scale or increase the multi-faceted efficiency.

Benefits of Attending Conference

By attending such presentation programs you can have a detailed view or understanding of the track that concentrates on tools as well as techniques for the purpose of enabling increased adoption with scalability and thus rendering non-linear development for the organizational practices. The single most crucial challenge is addressed to change the perception or mindset that the need of the hour is to step ahead from assurance to confirmation, and in this respect discussion, debate or agreement on the requirement of the change are highly important. It is high time to provide confirmation more inevitably.

Your To Do List During A Conference Session

• Take notes and use mind map as your note taking tool
• Focus on the challenging and thought provoking analysis and solutions
• Share your views and arise queries to enhance your organizational growth and advancement
• Learn, discuss and share at the same time
• Ensure that attendees or speakers are not disturbed
• Leave the session with knowledge of something innovative or interesting
• Talk to other testers, speakers or buddies about the testing apart from the context they work in
• Focus on the challenges they face alongside the several ways to solve them

Questions To Be Asked

Use the following questions intelligently to start conversation so as to learn from the experience of other fellow practitioners. This is how the conference becomes great and not just average.

• What does your organization do?
• What is your major concern about enterprise application testing?
• What kinds of products are normally tested by you?
• In what way do you approach testing?
• What is your view of automation or certification?
• What is your opinion about the advancement of software testing profession?
• What was the most challenging issue you found or how could the defect be recovered?
• How would you formulate static testing?
• Anything that you would advice to implement so far as random TestSpicer or test generator is concerned?

Highlights

The huge gathering of agile testing professionals recognizes new talents or emergent professionals for their contribution in the field of software testing. The award giving ceremony being one of the major highlights encourages newbie professionals while providing impetus for their contribution to the testing processes, skills or principles that make testing an imperative part of the software development life cycle. It will also inspire innovative approaches along with breakthrough achievements in the testing process that aims to produce developed products as well as services in the IT Industry.

To make the best use of the summit try meeting as much people as you can as important visitors from different fields will help in enhancing your market knowledge with the exchange of valuable information. Having a lunch or breakfast with unfamiliar faces can be a good idea. Don't forget to carry business card always as many people ask for it. Give yours and ask for one too. Apart from all these, visit booths to see innovative products while trying your hands on the latest tools to get an idea about how tools are advancing and the direction in which the service industry is heading.

We provide software testing and automation testing services and we do attend events and conferences in related fields. If you are looking to hire automation test engineers, please do speak to us, you will be amazed at your expertise and experience. And we will be glad to assist you.

Are Testers Creative??

Imagination is the strongest tool for tester to use. Many times it isn't while directly testing the app that some thing falls apart it when you play with it. That's another secret to good testing. Play with the product. Example while testing a phone to send and receive SMS I was able to prove that it could send and receive and passed the test. I then tried to send and receive and the same time. The phone locked up. There was no test case designed for it. I was just playing with it..

Testers  have to be creative with your test ideas. Think of scenarios that have not yet been tried. This is where you’ll save time by first understanding the duplicate bugs. It may sound hard, but it is time well spent in trying to understand the application and the scope for the test cycle. This creativity not only helps you for this particular test cycle, but will prove to be useful in other situations as well. So the point that you need to remember is this: Don’t just look for simple bugs.

Go through the other reports logged and try to reproduce the bug and see if you can dig deeper for serious bugs. It does help to generate quite a few new ideas if you take some time and spend in reading other tester reports.

You will enjoy creativity in coming up with different attacks (methods for finding defects) to show presence (or absence) of defects. However, it is most likely that you will first have to execute tests created by others (less creativity here). Then you will have enough understanding of the different types of possible defects, and conceive new tests that others will execute (more creativity).

Rather than executing test cases that have been written and executed over and over again, creative thinking testers adopt a more fitting and flexible approach to testing. Thinking testers delve into the unspoken assumptions and subject the product to a series of tests to determine its stability under different contexts and circumstances.

Creative testers are known to question the current testing methodologies and frameworks in order to find out the best-suited approach to a testing project. They will combine several different approaches to come up with a customized and suitable approach specific to the context of a project. 

If needed and feasible, thinking testers will rewrite old test scripts as well as write new ones. In some cases, creative testers may test randomly without writing a test case or following a series of defined test steps.

Thinking testers are known to think creatively, critically and broadly. They change the perspective of the whole team towards testing. Thinking testers adopt a brave and more flexible approach towards testing and challenge their teammates to do the same. Thinking testers take away the boredom that may frequently be associated with testing. 

Rather than simply testing the functionality and validating the product, creative thinking testers explore the product under different circumstances it may be susceptible to. Because of this, the delivered product is of a very high quality and has the highest chance of succeeding in the live environment.

Successful projects are a result of good people allowed to do good work. The characteristics that make someone succeed as a tester on an agile team are probably the same characteristics that make a highly valued tester on any team.

Creativity, openness to ideas, willingness to take on any task or role, focus on the customer, and a constant view of the big picture are just some components of the agile testing mind-set. Good testers have an instinct and understanding for where and how software might fail, and how to track down failures. 

Mindfire is a complete Agile software testing partner have have creative testers who do a good job of testing and delivering value.  It is a 12 year old  Offshore software testing company  which holds creative testers and offer quality work in their projects and follows An “agile testing mind-set” is customer-focused, results-oriented, craftsman-like, collaborative, creative, eager to learn, and passionate about delivering business value in a timely manner. Its has 1000+ testing projects, 750+people with 4+ years of Average Experience ISTQB and QTP Certified QA Engineers, 75+ team of certified Testers , Experience on tools QTP, Selenium, Jmeter etc  Experience in various verticals such as Healthcare, Mobile etc.

How To Protect Data Corruption By Testing?

In today’s information-driven enterprises, business critical information must be highly available, from internal company-sensitive data to applications that manage crucial partner and customer relationships. Outages are costly in lost revenue and damaged reputation, and can be crippling to the business.

Without the ability to reliably maintain the integrity of data, computers would be useless. No one would  rely on a system that scrambles bank accounts, garbles inventory data, or loses order information. Customer's business are critically dependant on every component of a computer system having a high degree of data Integrity. Data Integrity problems are most difficult to detect with traditional testing techniques.

Validating data integrity requires testers to think differently from other programmers. Testcases that programmatically determine when an error is encountered and consists in gathering diagnostic data are very powerful . Expose bugs that do not surface in cursory testing, such as memory management bugs, memory leaks, buffer overflows, etc. 

Ensure that the application meets the performance baseline established during performance testing. This is done by running regression tests against the application at a specified maximum load. Avoid modifying your system registry or over-clock your hardware to yield performance boost unless you're absolutely sure of what you're doing. You don't wish to fry your computer. 

Do not share or allow network access to any unknown users. Your computer data can be prone to theft and modification if anyone on the network can access your files freely. When you receive mails with attachment from unknown senders, do not open it. Attempt to create tests that have minimal requirements on configurations and other system attributes. Also keep the test execution simple. This makes it easy to port te tests from test system,share the tests with other testers and ensure lots of reuse.

In contrast, some emerging software disciplines such as extreme programming and the agile software development movement, adhere to a "test-driven software development" model. In this process, unit tests are written first, by the software engineers (often with pair programming in the extreme programming methodology). Of course these tests fail initially; as they are expected to. Then as code is written it passes incrementally larger portions of the test suites. The test suites are continuously updated as new failure conditions and corner cases are discovered, and they are integrated with any regression tests that are developed. Unit tests are maintained along with the rest of the software source code and generally integrated into the build process (with inherently interactive tests being relegated to a partially manual build acceptance process). The ultimate goal of this test process is to achieve continuous integration where software updates can be published to the public frequently. 

Mindfire hires dedicated certified testers to prevent data corruption and protects clients data most securely without fail. It is a leading dual shore outsource software development product and software testing company. Being an Agile software testing partner , we create cutting-edge software products exclusively for small to mid-size technology companies. Contact us today and we will connect you with the best Agile partner to help you ramp-up your software development quickly and safely! At Mindfire we provide daily test report for our client which will help them to stay updated about the project progress. We have hands on experience in Offshore Enterprise Application Testing, Expertise in Modular testing approach,  Experience in testing successful deployment in actual environment . To discuss how we can help you, please contact us on sales at mindfiresolutions dot com or call 1-248-686-1424.