Software Testing Blog

A mobile testing strategy isn't a device list. Here's the 4-decision order that decides what to test first, and a document skeleton you can fill today.

Desktop usability tests miss glare, one thumb, and a dying battery. Here's how to run mobile app usability testing that catches what actually breaks flow.

BDD testing writes scenarios in plain Given/When/Then language that developers, QA, and stakeholders all read. Here's how it works and when it pays off.

Unit testing checks the smallest parts of your code in isolation. See what it involves, who writes the tests, and how QA builds on top of them.

Alpha testing is a private round of checks on nearly finished software, before any customer sees it. See who runs it, what it catches, and how.

The QA process runs from requirements to release sign-off. See what happens at each step, when automation starts, and what your QA team hands you.

SIT testing checks that your separate systems work as one before UAT starts. Learn how it differs from integration testing and UAT, and when you need it.

Test coverage percentage is the easiest automation number to put on a slide, and one of the least useful on its own. A suite with 90% coverage that runs for an hour and fails at random tells you less than a smaller suite your team believes on every merge. The cost of misreading it is paid in engineer hours: every unexplained red build means someone reruns the pipeline, reads the logs, and decides whether to trust the result.

Sanity testing is a quick check that a bug fix works and broke nothing nearby. See what it covers, how it compares with smoke testing, and when to run it.

Shift left means starting tests early, ideally before any code is written. See the four ways to do it, with examples from real QAwerk client projects.