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The Ultimate Test Planning Guide: Step-by-Step Approach to Software Excellence

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  In today’s competitive market, your software’s quality can be the deciding factor in its success. A well-designed test plan is your roadmap to excellence. This guide offers the essential steps for creating a test plan that ensures your software functions flawlessly and meets all user expectations. What is Test Planning? Test Planning is a testing construct developed to document the different testing activities needed to deliver a quality product to the end users. A test plan in hand will give you a clear picture of the different areas of focus in the software to ensure it meets all the quality standards set and is ready to go into production. Test planning also includes a list of all the tasks that must be done promptly to keep track of and ensure the testing is done on time. Significance of Test Planning Test planning helps teams organize their efforts, allocate resources wisely, and cover all the bases. It also allows transparency across teams. In case there is a new joiner to ...

A Comprehensive Guide to Ad Hoc Testing in Software Testing

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  Before you release an application, you carefully plan your tests, execute them, document the results, and fix bugs, ensuring you’re able to touch all the moving parts of the code. But what if, soon after the release, your users start experiencing errors you never thought existed in your app? This happens because we mostly focus on testing expected user journeys. However, actual user interactions are unpredictable, even causing your app to break. This is where ad hoc testing enters the picture. It allows you to expose hidden defects that structured testing might not be able to uncover. In this blog, we’ll see what ad hoc testing is, its characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, and best practices for efficient testing. What is Ad hoc Testing? Ad hoc testing is a style of informal software testing that is typically performed without following test design principles and writing test cases. The aim here is to test the features of the software or app to discover potential flaws o...

Mobile App Security Testing: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Perform It

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  A  2025 report  shows that people collectively spent around 4.2 trillion hours of their time on mobile apps. This isn’t surprising as we use these apps for almost everything, from managing finances and tracking health to booking flights and even ordering groceries. But this convenience comes with a responsibility. Mobile apps regularly work with user information to offer tailored services and improve experiences. And a lot of the information these apps use is confidential in nature, like login details and financial records. Threat actors are constantly on the lookout for security gaps in mobile apps, which they can exploit to gain access to user accounts and spread malware, steal data, and cause financial fraud. This is why robust mobile app security testing is a must. In this blog, we will guide you through the basics of mobile app security testing, including its types and techniques, as well as best practices for optimization. TL;DR Mobile app security testing helps y...