Chronicles Of Testing

A quick and simple guide to win clients and at the same time, the trust of your own team. Stating it as it is and being true to your clients can actually be beneficial than you thought. Build happy clients and n urture your young team to handle a difficult client. Start with a lead or follow up on a previous happy client that you worked with Find a client who you and your team is equipped to provide a solution to their immediate problem Assist in identifying the problem if and when required Find a permanent solution to a pressing problem, know that they would have tried other solutions Guide them by providing adequate information and genuinely when needed Do not give them half baked solutions with an intention that would they come back to you, anyways Instead provide them with choices during a sales proposal Convey them that you can help them further, extend the contract and deliver quality in all iterations Talk to your client about the solution being i...

Many problems arise for testers and the testing team mainly due to the following reasons.       Late delivery of the code for testing       Test environment not being available / ready / setup aptly       Lack of information regarding the product , project , process and       Due to lack of clear communication at all these levels These are also the reasons for delay in delivery of tested code and the product for User Acceptance Testing in instances where there is a UAT team involved. Here is a mind map which sheds light on the requirements which the testing team requires prior to commencing testing and the teams involved in delivering this. This is applicable in an agile context where the testing team awaits for the DEV team for test deliverable's. Do add on to this mind map. Share and use in a context applicable to you. Having a check list will not help, unless it is put to use rightly.  T...