Konstantin Klyagin

Bug Crawl Digest #1: Most Common Mobile Game Bugs

June 17, 2026
9 min read

Every week, QAwerk testers pick a game or app from the stores and hunt for bugs. We publish every finding on our Bug Crawl page, including steps to reproduce, video proof, severity, and other valuable...

What Is EvalOps? The Practice Every AI Product Team Needs Before Shipping

June 9, 2026
14 min read

Let’s imagine that you ship an AI product that nails every demo. Your team runs it through its paces before launch, and the outputs look sharp, so you ship with confidence. However, two weeks later,...

n8n Workflow Testing: A Production Reliability Framework for Engineering Teams

May 11, 2026
8 min read

How engineering teams catch silent n8n failures before production. The 4 maturity levels, 7 failure modes, and 6 pillars of production-grade QA....

Top 10 LLM Evaluation Metrics to Understand Before Release

April 30, 2026
12 min read

Shipping an LLM without a proper evaluation strategy is a gamble most teams don’t realize they’re taking. 67% of organizations worldwide now run LLMs in production, but the majority still rely on ...

Why Automotive E-Commerce Solutions Lose Customers & How Testing Helps

April 29, 2026
11 min read

Buyers of any automotive products and services today go online to research models, compare trims, check financing scenarios, and read specs on their phones long before they commit to a purchase. It me...

Inside a Successful Penetration Test: Team, Process, Results

February 4, 2026
11 min read

Founders run penetration tests because surprises in production cost real money. A good penetration test lets you see your product the way an attacker would, without the chaos of an actual breach. It p...

Busting Penetration Testing Misconceptions and Myths

January 22, 2026
8 min read

Today, we’ll talk about penetration testing myths and how believing in them might compromise your system’s defenses and, ultimately, lead to your business’s ruin. The dangers of cyberattacks are...

Top 10 Penetration Testing Tools for 2026

January 16, 2026
11 min read

Cybersecurity is becoming a greater concern every year as the world grows more digitalized. We are vulnerable in this technology-dominated economy, and criminals capitalize on that. This list of the b...

How DORA Regulation Requirements Are Resetting FinTech Compliance Standards

October 29, 2025
8 min read

Everyone’s talking about DORA compliance requirements, but most folks still treat it like a riddle wrapped in red tape. Spoiler: it’s neither boring nor optional, especially if your business is an...

Europe’s New Crypto Regulatory Wave: MiCA, DORA & DAC8 Explained

August 20, 2025
6 min read

Europe stands at the forefront of the cryptocurrency regulation revolution, with three pivotal frameworks—MiCA, DAC8, and DORA—poised to reshape the way digital assets are governed across the cont...

Game Testing Teams Explained: Who You Need & When You Need Them

August 11, 2025
5 min read

Shipping a flawless game today goes beyond brilliant design or addictive gameplay. You also need to make sure your release doesn’t crash, glitch, or disappoint....

AI Agent Evaluation: Metrics That Actually Matter

July 22, 2025
13 min read

The AI agent industry is rapidly evolving, but the real impact of these agents (and how much we can trust them) depends on a thorough evaluation. Let’s start by exploring an AI agent definition: sof...

15 AI Testing Tools for Smarter Testing in 2025

May 9, 2025
15 min read

AI in software testing has become ubiquitous. In 2024, 72% of companies used AI in at least one business function, which is a substantial jump from the 55% we saw the year before. Nearly every tool no...

Game Performance Testing: Optimize Multiplayer Game Performance

February 10, 2025
7 min read

Quality of experience is everything in multiplayer games. Players expect instant responses, zero lag, and fluid gameplay—even when thousands of users log in simultaneously. Any hiccup can trigger ne...

DeFi Testing Checklist: Your Roadmap to App Security

December 23, 2024
20 min read

DeFi apps introduce unique challenges that are not present in traditional software. Smart contracts, the building blocks of DeFi, can be vulnerable to attacks if not carefully tested. Additionally, th...

Web3 Testing Checklist: Ensure Your App Security

November 6, 2024
15 min read

Web3 apps are becoming more popular as businesses and developers look to leverage the benefits of blockchain technology. However, testing web3 apps can be complex due to the unique characteristics of ...

What is Automated Functional Testing: A Complete Guide

October 17, 2024
11 min read

Sooner or later, tech companies realize that their products have grown too big for manual testing only. They also want to keep the same pace of delivering new capabilities to their customers. At this ...

Mobile App Testing Checklist: The Ultimate Guide

July 29, 2024
14 min read

Welcome to the era of demanding users. With toddlers’ attention spans and endless choices, delivering a seamless app experience is crucial. Only 9% of users stick around if an app doesn’t meet the...

CrowdStrike Security Update Triggering Mass Windows Outage

July 19, 2024
6 min read

Just yesterday, the idea that a single IT misstep could cripple companies across entire industries might have seemed like a huge overstatement. However, the recent Microsoft outage is a stark reminder...

7 Ways to Improve Software Testing: Best Practices

July 11, 2024
12 min read

Raise your hand if you have experienced an unreasonable lack of organization, poor scheduling, and daunting bug reports. Okay, there is no point in sitting in front of your computer with your hand in ...

Ultimate Front-End Testing Checklist

May 24, 2024
16 min read

Imagine a company deciding to skip the front-end testing phase due to tight deadlines. "Everything's fine on the back-end, so why worry, right?" Will neglecting front-end testing help save on project ...

QAwerk Recognized with IAOP’s Global Outsourcing 100 Award for 2024

May 10, 2024
5 min read

Providing top-tier software testing services is one of our main goals. Since 2015, we've empowered global businesses, from ambitious startups to industry leaders, to release high-quality products. Ove...

Testing Eurovision Apps: Are They Accessible to All?

April 29, 2024
13 min read

Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is an international song competition known for its musical extravaganza and inclusivity. The 2023 event was viewed live by 162 mln people with largest audiences tuning in...

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 19, 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
8 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

Software testing life cycle (STLC) is a set of actions that are performed coherently and on a systematic and planned basis in order to find out if a software product works properly and if there are ...

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...

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