Author: Konstantin Klyagin

Konstantin Klyagin

Founder of QAwerk
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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

Web3 Testing Checklist: Ensure Your App Security

Web3 Testing Checklist: Ensure Your App Security

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 ...

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What is Automated Functional Testing: A Complete Guide

What is Automated Functional Testing: A Complete Guide

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 ...

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The Best Tools for Mobile Game Testing

The Best Tools for Mobile Game Testing

Mobile games continue to have more coverage within the overall global gaming industry year after year, with an expected 10.39 % market size increase by 2029, making the mobile gaming pool an incredibl...

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Mobile App Testing Checklist: The Ultimate Guide

Mobile App Testing Checklist: The Ultimate Guide

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...

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CrowdStrike Security Update Triggering Mass Windows Outage

CrowdStrike Security Update Triggering Mass Windows Outage

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...

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7 Ways to Improve Software Testing: Best Practices

7 Ways to Improve Software Testing: Best Practices

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 ...

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Ultimate Front-End Testing Checklist

Ultimate Front-End Testing Checklist

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 ...

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

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

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...

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Testing Eurovision Apps: Are They Accessible to All?

Testing Eurovision Apps: Are They Accessible to All?

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...

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Desktop Game Testing Checklist: Your Comprehensive Manual

Desktop Game Testing Checklist: Your Comprehensive Manual

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 ...

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UI Testing Checklist: A Guide for Perfect Web UI

UI Testing Checklist: A Guide for Perfect Web UI

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...

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SaaS Testing Checklist: Your Full QA Guide

SaaS Testing Checklist: Your Full QA Guide

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...

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Mobile Game Testing: Detailed QA Checklist

Mobile Game Testing: Detailed QA Checklist

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...

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Most Important Software Test Metrics

Most Important Software Test Metrics

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...

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Top 5 Game Testing Companies in 2024

Top 5 Game Testing Companies in 2024

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

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Alpha Testing vs Beta Testing: A Complete Comparison

Alpha Testing vs Beta Testing: A Complete Comparison

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...

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Complete Website Testing Checklist

Complete Website Testing Checklist

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...

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Unicorn Tech Companies in 2021: How are They Coping?

Unicorn Tech Companies in 2021: How are They Coping?

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...

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Popular Bugs in Mobile Apps: Bug Crawl Stats

Popular Bugs in Mobile Apps: Bug Crawl Stats

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...

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QA in Software Development: Role and Importance

QA in Software Development: Role and Importance

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...

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COVID-19: QAwerk goes remote

COVID-19: QAwerk goes remote

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...

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Coronavirus: What it means for the IT

Coronavirus: What it means for the IT

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...

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Bug Crawl: Easy and Fast Way to Perfect Your Product

Bug Crawl: Easy and Fast Way to Perfect Your Product

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...

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Agile Testing Process – Principles, Methods & Advantages

Agile Testing Process – Principles, Methods & Advantages

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...

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Crowdsourcing vs Outsourcing: A Testing Battle

Crowdsourcing vs Outsourcing: A Testing Battle

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...

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

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

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 ...

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Mistakes in Programming that Cost Lives, Time, and Money

Mistakes in Programming that Cost Lives, Time, and Money

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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Welcome to Bug Parade: The Biggest Fails in Software Testing

Welcome to Bug Parade: The Biggest Fails in Software Testing

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 ...

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GDPR Fails Compilation

GDPR Fails Compilation

[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...

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Are you GDPR ready? QAwerk’s compliance checklist

Are you GDPR ready? QAwerk’s compliance checklist

[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...

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Performance Testing Best Practices: What You Should Know?

Performance Testing Best Practices: What You Should Know?

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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