Software Testing Simple (Software Quality Assurance QA)

Identify common user interface defects, including misalignments, overlapping elements, spacing issues, and color or font mismatches. Explore content errors and real-world examples like overlapping text and button color mismatches.

Conduct localization testing to verify the app adapts to local culture, language, currency, and date/time formats. The French example shows some elements translated while others stay English, hindering user experience.

Explore usability testing to evaluate how easy a website or app is for customers. The lecture uses misclicks and confusing prompts, like paired buttons, to show why color differences matter.

Learn to capture screenshots to prove the existence of a bug, using system-specific shortcuts, and attach them to bug reports to improve QA efficiency.

Explore high level smoke testing for a credos platform, covering the home page layout, registration flow, and basic offer creation, with preconditions, steps, and expected results.

Master Chrome's mobile view to simulate your app on multiple device sizes using the device toolbar, with iPhone X and iPhone five options, and note its cheap and dirty nature.

Explore modern browsers and their variety, including Opera, Maxthon, and Dolphin for mobile, while noting Edge isn’t listed among many other options.

Learn how to test on ios without a device by using simulators and simpler alternatives to Xcode, as Xcode is heavy, paid, and requires a subscription.

Explore cross browser testing of web app user interfaces across different browsers and devices, covering three testing types and noting mobile testing and browser-specific issues.

Explore modern web architecture by contrasting the front-end client site with back-end servers and databases, and see how browsers request HTML via HTTP, render pages, and integrate third-party services.

Explore back-end testing concepts through web services, the network layer, and database testing for data storage, types, and languages, including server-side testing without a front end.

Explore the software build process from writing source code to compiling it into executable binaries that your operating system can understand.

Recap the end-to-end software development lifecycle from user stories and local development through smoke testing, feature testing in dev and qa environments, to staging, regression, and production release.

Perform lightweight, targeted testing to verify a specific story made it to production. Verify a brief feature, such as a color change from red to green, without extensive exploration.

Compare recruiters from agencies and direct hire HR for QA roles; recruiters proactively push applications and share interview questions and study notes, while direct hires offer steadier engagement.

Learn to use LinkedIn and Glassdoor to find roles, have city-specific alerts, match your skills with job descriptions, and apply with a single click via the easy apply feature.

Navigate QA interview personality questions, balancing psychology with teamwork and dealing with pressure. Discuss automation vs manual testing, notable bugs, production defects, and your fit for the company.