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Enterprise Application Testing Best Practices

Testing is challenging and given the constraints of time it is also stressful. New releases in the market every few weeks need to be bug free even if they are new features added to an existing product. With limited resources in the testing team, the only way to get ahead is by having some practices in place to ensure that the release maintains its quality standards without the team having to put in extra hours at the workplace.

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Enterprise Application Testing Best Practices

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  1. Testing is challenging and given the constraints of time it is also stressful. New releases in the market every few weeks need to be bug free even if they are new features added to an existing product. With limited resources in the testing team, the only way to get ahead is by having some practices in place to ensure that the release maintains its quality standards without the team having to put in extra hours at the workplace.

  2. 1. Blurring lines between development and testing The testing team is no longer doing only the testing part. These days it gets the feedback from the customer regarding their experience of the product and is also a part of the design discussions. Thus, they are able to convey the customer demands to the developers so that the end product meets the desired requisites. With the knowledge of code testing, the testers can preempt flaws in the design even before coding.

  3. 2. Identify what needs to be tested There are a million things that need to be tested in any product. However, when it comes to an update, the testers need not spend time with all the aspects. Only the areas where most changes took place need to be focused upon others can be taken care of by automation tests. Testing needs to be prioritized depending on what the coding team is changing in the release.

  4. 3. Fixing the bugs Bug fixing may be the job of the testing team not everything can be fixed. The team must prioritize the bugs with usage data from sources like Google Analytics. This data is an indication of how the users interact with the release. The areas in the application that users rarely use become low on priority. Also, if less than 1% of the users use a browser then issues specific to it become low priority. This does not mean that the release is sent in the market with bugs just that the bugs are tackled in a certain order. In case there are bugs after testing which are discovered by the users, they are high priority for getting fixed before the next release.

  5. 4. Two tier test automation To save time on the testing process, the two-tier approach is used. In the first tier, every commit to the code base is validated with developer changes and quick sanity tests. Tier two is more exhaustive and comprises automation tests that run at night. The idea is to balance between daytime sanity testing and nighttime regression testing to get the best results. 5. Solving environmental issues The environment in which the user will run the release might be different from the Software QA testing and development teams'. Therefore, testing needs to be done in production conditions by simulating the customers' environment.

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