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8 articles tagged “qa”.
Acceptance criteria decide what gets built and what gets tested. This guide covers the eight properties that make a criterion checkable, with a real story rewritten from a score of 48 to 100 in our acceptance criteria grader, and the questions each rewrite answered before the sprint instead of during it.
acceptance criteria · requirements · product owner
11 MIN
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Accessibility stopped being a nice-to-have in June 2025. This guide covers who the European Accessibility Act applies to, which standard it points at, what enforcement has actually looked like in France, why overlay widgets do not count, and five checks a product owner can run on their own checkout in fifteen minutes.
accessibility · compliance · product owner
7 MIN
A practical guide to test cases: what to include, three techniques for choosing inputs, ten real cases for a checkout form with the results we observed, and how the cases become an automated test. Three of the ten raised questions the form's requirements don't answer.
qa · test cases · process
8 MIN
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We found a real bug in a practice shop and wrote it up two ways. The difference between 30 and 100 points is steps, expected versus actual, environment, reproducibility, and evidence. Each part is explained with the exact lines from the report.
qa · bug reporting · process
8 MIN
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A concrete comparison instead of a debate: which bugs on a deliberately broken demo shop an automated suite caught, which ones a person caught, and a short set of questions for deciding what to automate next.
qa · manual testing · automation
5 MIN
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Testing tools grouped by job: browser automation, API testing, BDD, accessibility, CI, test management, device clouds, and reporting. Each entry says what the tool is for, when you don't need it, and whether we've used it ourselves.
tools · qa · automation
7 MIN
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Where the test pyramid comes from, the only widely cited ratios and what their authors said about them, the ice cream cone and hourglass antipatterns, and a rule for choosing the layer of each new test.
test pyramid · strategy · qa
7 MIN
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A plain-language introduction for new testers: what testing is and isn't, seven principles every tester should know, the main levels and types, and a practice session on a deliberately buggy demo shop with a list of real bugs to check your findings against.
qa · software testing · beginner
6 MIN
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