Software Engineering Blog, page 10
Notes on software engineering from the Atyantik practice.
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Mithali Shrivastava
What is bug triage? How to run the triage process
Bug triage is where a team rates each defect's severity and priority and decides what to fix now, later or never. See who attends and how to run it.
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Mithali Shrivastava
Exploratory testing Rapid Reporter tool: a session-based test management guide
How the exploratory testing Rapid Reporter tool records a chartered, 90-minute SBTM session as typed notes, and how the CSV feeds a short debrief.
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Juzer Dhoon
Lighthouse performance score explained: how the scoring model works
How the Lighthouse performance score is calculated: the five metric weights, the log-normal curves, a worked example and a CI gate on five runs.
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Mithali Shrivastava
Heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough in software testing: which to run, and how many evaluators
Heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough compared: what each one finds, Nielsen's 10 heuristics, the four questions, and how many evaluators to book.
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Aatman
Risk-based testing: software testing techniques that put the hours where failure costs most
Of all software testing techniques, risk-based testing splits test hours by likelihood times impact. Score areas, run fast releases, trim regression suites.
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Juzer Dhoon
CSS grid layouts for complex, responsive designs
CSS grid layouts explained: what display: grid does, five copyable CSS grid examples, and one dashboard built with named areas, auto-fit and subgrid.
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Aatman
AI ML in software testing: six techniques, how each one fails, and what still needs a tester
AI ML in software testing, task by task: test generation, self-healing locators, visual AI, test selection, flaky tests, and how each one fails.
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Aatman
The psychology of bugs: why defects happen and which checks catch them
The psychology of bugs, from named studies: why defects happen, the biases behind them, and the review or test practice that catches each one.
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Jaykrishna Vijayan
Selenium Cypress or Playwright: choosing the right automation testing tool by how it drives the browser
Selenium Cypress or Playwright? Selenium vs Cypress vs Playwright compared by how each drives the browser, with a comparison table and a first test in each.
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Juzer Dhoon
Component-Driven Development: Storybook with Vite and Pico CSS
Set up Storybook with Vite and Pico CSS, write one story per component state, run every story as a test, and plan for the Pico CSS archive.
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Juzer Dhoon
CSS Grid and Flexbox together: one test to pick each, and how to nest them
CSS Grid and Flexbox together: one alignment test to pick each, how to nest them, when Subgrid helps, and how many columns an auto-fit grid makes.
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Kamil Khan
Headless commerce vs traditional commerce: how to choose the right ecommerce architecture
Headless vs traditional ecommerce compared on flexibility, integrations, omnichannel, scalability, maintenance and cost, with the best fit for each.
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