This tutorial gives you a list of characteristic features that any tester must possess to become a good tester. And these features, in turn, help a lot in determining the Quality Quotient…
Category: Soft Skills For Testers
How to Write Effective Emails to QA (or any) Team [Sample Email Included]
What is the first thing we do when we get to work (or sometimes as soon as we wake up)? – Check email, right? Sometimes we don’t know what our day is…
5 Major Sins of Working With Testers and Developer
Working as a tester in a big corporation was probably the best thing that happened to me in my career. I can’t stress enough how lucky I am for doing the most enjoyable…
Zen and the Art of Software Testing
At STH we are changing the pace. Yes. Today we bring to you an article that will soothe the tired tester in you and set the mood for you to become better…
How Should Testers Handle Boredom?
I was asked this question in an interview recently- “What would you do when work gets monotonous and boring?” Here is what I said, “Fortunately that has never happened to me and…
How to Form an Effective Test Team
Most testing professionals are technically strong enough to test their solutions, but to form a strong Test Team having various skill sets, and to maintain it, requires some different individual skills that…
9 Ways to Quickly Improve Your Writing Skills as a Software Tester
In the last article, we discussed “Effective Communication Skills”; how important it is for Software testers and learned how verbal communication can be improved. In this article, we will continue the same…
16 Characteristics of a Great Software Tester
What Makes a Good Software Tester for a Great Software Tester? 7 Qualities of Highly Effective Testers Testers are the backbone of any IT company as they are the ones who can…
How To Be A Productivity Junkie (Especially as a Tester)
We all have goals. We all want to do more and be more. There are many ways to be successfully, but the most important one is also the simplest – you have…
Top Three Tips to Survive in this Recession – Economic Downtime [Part 1]
Recession – Retrospection – Re-skill This is a guest article from Gunasekaran Veerapillai. “Time to be different, not just efficient” – these are the words of C K Prahalad, the management guru on…