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What testers should know about domain knowledge

Often, QA professionals require industry domain knowledge in order to respond to unique specifications, workflows, or technology adoption.

How to do a product evaluation for enterprise software

Before your company commits to a new software production evaluation, it makes sense to determine if the software truly meets the business’s needs.

27 Selective QA Interview Questions for Managers to Ask

In this article, you’ll learn more about how to interview QA job seekers, and you will have access to 27 best QA interview questions!

You're sold on load testing. But for what "unreasonable" load should you test?

Load testing – where you discover the point at which a computer system fails – is based on preparing for (graceful) failure by knowing its breaking point.

The mobile testing gotchas you need to know about

Testing gotchas on mobile devices has its own set of perils. For how many of these are you prepared?

Five Must-Have Skills to Look for in a QA Tester

You want to hire the best possible people to ensure software quality. Look for these QA skills beyond the tech skill buzzwords.

Irina Astrom of Functionize Recognized as One of CRN’s 2020 Women of the Channel

CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Irina Astrom, Global Alliances Operations Manager, to its esteemed Women of the Channel list 2020.

The challenges of testing GUIs

As a matter of fact, you can deploy GUI testing. But it's not that easy, especially for mobile devices.

The human backup: establishing the team's unlikely successors

Any business knows the importance of backing up data as a contingency plan. But do you back up your humans too? Here’s how tech teams can prepare for a short-term staff disruption, such as an employee who is unexpectedly out with the flu – or with Coronavirus.

Four essential Jenkins plugins

Thinking of ways you can up your CI/CD game? Check out these super-useful Jenkins plugins!

Software QA in the time of Coronavirus

What’s changed for software testers in the last few months? Beyond the need to set up a home office, that is.

How NASA does software testing and QA

Doing software testing for positive world-changing applications is a dream job. But that comes with additional concerns and responsibility!

Functionize Introduces Architect: New Intelligent Automation Utility

Let us introduce the Functionize Architect, the new intelligent automation utility, that takes software testing to a whole new level!

Things that are called ML/AI that really aren’t

So many products promise to be ML/AI when they are just an impressive algorithm. But smart isn't the same as intelligent when it comes to the minds of machines.

Aligning BDD with Continuous Delivery

Let’s explore how Behavior-driven development (BDD) fits into and enables continuous delivery (CD).

Let’s make testing Agile, they said. Uh, what did they mean by that?

People talk about adopting Agile methodology in testing and using a DevOps-centric culture, but development teams regularly say that testing is a bottleneck.

16 things that testers wished they’d learned earlier

What did it take you entirely too long to learn about software testing? Check out our article for 16 QA basics you wish you knew earlier.

What are canary launching and dark testing?

A review of canary testing and dark launching, two popular approaches for testing new features and performance in complex applications

What should be on a QA tester’s résumé?

Professional software testers need job-hunting advice, just like anybody else. The key takeaway from recruiters? Customize your QA résumé — and watch the typos!

5 surprising books that QA professionals recommend (and 10 useful references that won’t shock you)

QA professionals’ jobs aren’t straightforward. Neither are the software testing books they recommend.

In search of the full stack testing team

How do you know if your testing team is doing a good job? These five guidelines are a good start.

5 things QA testers wish programmers understood

Software developers need testers to be their shield in the fight against software defects. QA professionals want programmers to know how to strengthen this alliance.

The role of testers in an Agile organization

Check out the article to know how the role of testers in Agile are embedded with the developers and work closely with them.

From the QA trenches: 6 signs of project success or failure

Surely, the software testing staff can see indications of QA project's success or failure well before anyone else.

The future of software testing in 2020: Here’s what’s coming

Artificial intelligence and machine learning aren’t the only changes to expect in in the future of software testing, but they’re a big part of it.

Daniel Gannon of Functionize Recognized on CRN’s 2020 Channel Chiefs List

3 Lessons from big software failures

We all learn from mistakes. Ideally, we learn from someone else’s mistakes. Here are several epic software failures and their takeaways.

Cloud-based testing transforms your QA

Most people use their own infrastructure in testing. This is fine for manual testing, but it can't scale. This is where cloud-based testing helps you

How to deliver a technical presentation to a non-technical audience

You need to explain a topic that'll make your audience's eyes glaze over. No problem. Just follow these instructions in your technical presentation.

So you want to become a software QA professional?

Are you considering a career path in software QA? Here’s what you need to know to get started.

5 reasons why QA needs humans

How to incorporate AI and Machine Learning into QA

AI and Machine Learning can make life easier for software testers, but they’re no quality-assurance panacea. Here’s what these technologies are best suited for.

A glossary of testing terms

Check out our software testing terminology guide to expand your professional vocabulary!

The myth of 100% code coverage

Ask what code coverage should devs aim at, and many will say 100%. In this blog, we explain why this mythical goal can lead to a false sense of security.

Behavior-driven development. Who needs Gherkin?

Behavior-driven development is a popular agile methodology. Here, we discuss how to do BDD without the need to learn the Gherkin language.

Data-driven testing – when does it help you?

Data-driven testing is increasingly common in test automation. Here, we explore common scenarios and explain the impact it can have on your testing efforts.