Author: Konstantin Klyagin

As a tech entrepreneur, ardent traveler, and conscious citizen, Konst brings decades of experience in software development and testing, sharing his expertise on platforms like Forbes, TechCrunch, and Entrepreneur. His career has spanned roles as a software developer, tech lead, project manager, and technical writer in both startups and large international companies, leading to the establishment of an IT services business.

Recent posts by Konstantin

Desktop Game Testing Checklist: Your Comprehensive Manual

February 29, 2024
19 min read

How can you elevate your desktop game from “meh” to “mind-blowing”? A simple answer is thorough testing followed by bug fixing and retesting. The whole process should involve diverse hardware ...

UI Testing Checklist: A Guide for Perfect Web UI

February 15, 2024
17 min read

In today’s competitive landscape, a visually consistent website design is an absolute must-have to deliver exceptional user experiences. With so much online content, users are more likely to stay on...

SaaS Testing Checklist: Your Full QA Guide

February 1, 2024
15 min read

In the evolving digital age, Software as a Service (SaaS) has become integral to businesses worldwide. With a projected market size of over $462 billion by 2028, the SaaS model delivers applications o...

Mobile Game Testing: Detailed QA Checklist

January 30, 2024
26 min read

The mobile gaming sector has experienced an unprecedented surge in the past few years, with its market size mushrooming faster than any other entertainment segment. To put it in perspective, recent da...

Most Important Software Test Metrics

July 28, 2023
11 min read

Product testing is a crucial stage in software development, and it tolerates no levity. It relies on testing tools and frameworks to take your software product through numerous test cases that simulat...

Top 5 Game Testing Companies in 2024

May 31, 2023
3 min read

How to choose the best QA providers? Learn about top 5 game testing companies you can trust and rely on. ...

Alpha Testing vs Beta Testing: A Complete Comparison

February 21, 2022
13 min read

Both alpha and beta testing are forms of user acceptance testing, allowing to build confidence before the product launch. Both of them help collect actionable feedback and increase product usability...

Complete Website Testing Checklist

January 20, 2022
14 min read

Any software development life cycle should involve a testing phase — otherwise, the product already delivered to end users may be full of defects, which will result in a large number of negative...

Unicorn Tech Companies in 2021: How are They Coping?

September 7, 2021
3 min read

The year 2020 has been rough on unicorn companies around the world. From the pandemic to the eventual economic recession, businesses have struggled to cope with these challenges. Although some un...

Popular Bugs in Mobile Apps: Bug Crawl Stats

August 4, 2021
25 min read

We’ve come to a point when it’s time to look back and evaluate the results of our Bug Crawl initiative. With almost 200 apps tested for free, we can make some evidence-based conclusions and hope...

QA in Software Development: Role and Importance

July 17, 2020
15 min read

High quality. These are the ultimate “holy grail” words in any business niche, project life-cycle, service implementation, etc. It’s easy to save on a “small” thing or two - the long-standin...

COVID-19: QAwerk goes remote

July 17, 2020
4 min read

Coronavirus pandemic made us all stop in the daily rush and look at things from a different angle. Social life rituals we’re all used to will no longer be in place, business traveling and meetings a...

Coronavirus: What it means for the IT

July 16, 2020
6 min read

Coronavirus is spreading around the planet, and we at QAwerk are seriously concerned about the situation. We’re a QA software testing company located in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and we decided to ge...

Bug Crawl: Easy and Fast Way to Perfect Your Product

September 16, 2019
4 min read

Being experts in the IT industry, we know about the importance of testing and want to share this knowledge as we believe high-quality software is the key to success. Although it may seem obvious wh...

Agile Testing Process – Principles, Methods & Advantages

September 11, 2019
7 min read

If you are a developer or a tester, the word agile is nothing new to you. But if you are new in it and wonder what agile testing is and what it means in practice, you won’t have any questions left a...

Crowdsourcing vs Outsourcing: A Testing Battle

September 3, 2019
3 min read

Don’t you hate it when the app you’ve downloaded doesn’t work correctly? It crashes randomly, buttons don’t work, information is not updated when it is supposed to? You don’t want that. Neit...

iPhone Theft in Barcelona: How it Was + Security Tips Thieves Hate

August 8, 2019
8 min read

The story below happened to our iOS developer on his trip to Barcelona in May. Sergey works for our development unit at Redwerk and is really tech-savvy. Luckily, he knew how to act and didn’t give ...

Mistakes in Programming that Cost Lives, Time, and Money

July 22, 2019
6 min read

Computer systems run the modern world, which sometimes leads to technical failures being the cause of fatal accidents in the material environment. Such failures are usually the result of human mistake...

What is Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)? Step by Step Guide

March 12, 2019
6 min read

[table_content] Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC): Step by Step Guide Entry and exit criteria for testing STLC phases Requirements Phase Planning Phase Analysis Phase Design Phase Implement...

QAwerk is a 5-Star Agency on Clutch at the Top of their List of Application Testing Companies

March 5, 2019
3 min read

End-to-end solutions are our specialty at QAwerk. As a one-stop shop that provides high-end QA and software testing services for clients all over the world, we take great pride in our ability to help ...

Welcome to Bug Parade: The Biggest Fails in Software Testing

November 19, 2018
6 min read

Bugs, flaws, glitches - not the most pleasant words and a real disaster for software developers. These small (or sometimes big) pests can completely ruin even the most powerful code and make products ...

GDPR Fails Compilation

August 10, 2018
6 min read

[table_content] Remind me to flunk my GDPR or Global Giants hit with GDPR Dance, you got a letter! Selfie is at gunpoint!! So, what to do next? [/table_content] It’s been a month since...

Are you GDPR ready? QAwerk’s compliance checklist

May 29, 2018
4 min read

[table_content] Go with GDPR flow! How it affects you and what to do? What is GDPR? Who’s in GDPR? What to Do? Contact us for GDPR compliance testing! About QAwerk [/table_content] Go with G...

Performance Testing Best Practices: What You Should Know?

January 18, 2018
8 min read

Today, the functionality of a product is no doubt an important and integral component in the testing process. But there are response time, reliability, resource usage and scalability that do matter as...