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Fantastic Testers and How to Hire Them

August 22, 2017 Craig Randall 1 Comment

One day, I realized that my testing workload was too much for me to handle alone. It was time for me to embark on the recruiting train. Hiring new testers is critical to protecting existing team members from burnout and to cover the ever increasing volume of testing needs. Hiring…

How to defuse a bomb… Wait, I mean a bug

August 15, 2017 Michele Campbell 0 Comments

Helpful testing methods to get a quality product out faster When you have a product release happening very soon and there are major features going out, you may feel a bit of pressure trying to make sure there are no bugs going out with those features. Testing the product under…

Developers and Testers: Nemeses or Soulmates

October 5, 2016 Michele Campbell 2 Comments

My husband and I have been married for a little over two years now. In that time, we have heard all kinds of marriage advice; some of it is good and some not so good. Most of that advice could be applied to just about any relationship, for instance, that…

Selenium IDE: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

September 13, 2016 Jared Yarn 16 Comments

Here at Lucid Software, we are always trying to release high quality code to users as quickly as possible. For every release, we spend three to five days doing a full regression to make sure the code is user ready. Three to five days is not as fast as possible….

Oh, the Things Preprod Can Do: Catching more bugs with a production-like testing environment

September 6, 2016 Alixe Langshall 0 Comments

Testers: you know this story well. There’s a feature you’ve tested thoroughly in development and looked at it in your staging environment, but now it’s gone out to production and doesn’t work. There’s some aspect of the story that works differently when you put it in production and is causing…