You’re struggling to improve your testing efficiency. What can you do to get better results? (2024)

Key takeaways from this article

• Define testing goals:

  Setting clear objectives and metrics before you start testing can steer your efforts in the right direction. It's like having a roadmap; you'll know exactly where you're headed and can track your progress with precision.

• Seek guidance:

  Don’t shy away from asking for advice. Chatting with a more experienced colleague can provide insights that might just crack the code on your efficiency woes. A fresh perspective often leads to breakthroughs.

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• Cindy F. Humanized Leadership Mentor | Top Voice
• Prashant Balkrishna Kulkarni 🇮🇳 Time Not for Sale | Service before Self…

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  Simple solution.Find a guide or a senior or some experienced person or your colleague or your manager and take inputs from that person. This kind of guidance always helps. Never hesitate to take guidance from others.

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• Mohd S ALI QA Lead || Focus on Delivering the Bug free Product || API Testing || SFC

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  1. Streamline your testing procedures: Evaluate your current testing methods and look for opportunities to simplify or automate certain tasks. This could involve using testing tools and software to streamline the process and reduce manual effort.2.Prioritize testing activities: Identify the most critical areas for testing and allocate resources accordingly. By focusing on the most important aspects of your product or system, you can maximize the impact of your testing efforts.3. Enhance collaboration and communication: Encourage open communication and collaboration among team members involved in testing.By implementing these strategies, you can work towards improving the efficiency of your testing process and achieving better results.

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• Deoshree Nimje 🚀QA Lead | 🤖AI Explorer |🏆Certified Scrum Master | Agile Automation #QualityAssurance #TestAutomation

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  To improve testing efficiency, streamline test processes, prioritize test cases based on risk, leverage automation for repetitive tasks, and continuously assess and refine testing strategies to focus on high-impact areas.Success often depends on having a well-established process. It's not solely about the speed of testing; rather, it's about the effectiveness of a carefully structured setup and seamless execution.

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• Rowel Baritua Branch Manager

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  Defining the specific goals and objectives, will reconcile to the success of a certain task, or study being undertaken. Using the SMART approach will help to simplified and route out what must be considered in hitting the goals.S- specificM- measurableA- attainableR- realisticT- time bound

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• Md. Shahadat Hossain Doshaid AK College. Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka

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  Define clear goals and metricsBefore you start testing, you need to have a clear idea of what you want to achieve and how you will measure your progress. Define your testing objectives, scope, criteria, and deliverables. Use relevant and realistic metrics to track your testing activities, such as test coverage, defect density, defect resolution time, and customer satisfaction. Review your metrics regularly and adjust your testing strategy accordingly.2Automate what you canManual testing can be tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone. Automation can help you save time, improve consistency, and increase coverage. Identify the test cases that are repetitive, stable, and critical, and automate them using appropriate tools and frameworks.

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• Seyfettin Dincturk 🎮💼 7+ Years of Video Game QA Experience | QA Tester at BlackMill Games | Ex-PlayStation, Electronic Arts, 2K Games, Apple, Abstraction Games

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  Look for repetitive tasks that can be automated. Using tools to handle routine testing jobs frees up your time to focus on more complex and critical aspects, boosting overall efficiency.

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• Hasan A. QA Automation Engineer at OpenlyCRM | ISTQB® Certified

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  Improving testing efficiency often involves automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks. In my experience, identifying and automating test cases with stable and predictable outcomes has significantly increased efficiency. Automation not only accelerates the testing process but also allows testers to focus on more complex and exploratory aspects. For instance, I once automated regression tests, reducing the testing time and minimizing the risk of human error. By strategically incorporating automation, you not only streamline your testing processes but also enhance accuracy and overall testing results. It's a practical approach to achieving better efficiency in testing workflows.

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• Fathima Fairoos 1×Salesforce Certified || 2×Tosca Certified || Trailhead Ranger

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  Automation also enhances testing efficiency through its ability to simulate large-scale scenarios and handle complex test cases that may be challenging for manual testing. It contributes to the consistency of test execution, minimizing human errors and ensuring reliable results. Additionally, automated tests facilitate regression testing, allowing teams to quickly verify that new code changes haven't adversely affected existing functionalities, saving time and effort in the long run.

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• Rowel Baritua Branch Manager

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  Automation is a helpful tool, to fastrack results, in simplifying data, into a universal framework, that everyone can evaluate in one look.

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• Kenzie Champagne As a GSK employee, being ambitious for patients makes me accountable for the work I do to provide safe products. My hope is that future employees will have the same ambition should I become a patient.

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  Automation is recognized and acknowledged in many industries. Use this as an advantage to refine processes and minimize errors.

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• Seyfettin Dincturk 🎮💼 7+ Years of Video Game QA Experience | QA Tester at BlackMill Games | Ex-PlayStation, Electronic Arts, 2K Games, Apple, Abstraction Games

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  Figure out which tests are most important and need your attention first. Prioritizing ensures that you're tackling the critical areas efficiently. Optimize your testing processes to make the most of your resources.

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• Mike Cochrane Hardware engineer at SEL

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  See communication and collaboration below. Working with your team to determine what needs done first and is most important really helps. For example, someone might know about a component that was delayed so you cannot start that test. Even if it’s very important, if you can’t do the test until the component arrives, then other tests can be completed while you’re waiting.

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• Kenzie Champagne As a GSK employee, being ambitious for patients makes me accountable for the work I do to provide safe products. My hope is that future employees will have the same ambition should I become a patient.

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  Prioritize and optimize your testing. Using a validation plan may the best way to ensure you get the results that meet acceptance criterion for compliance.

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• Renjith PR QA/QC Welding Inspector at Tecnicas Reunidas

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  In my opinion the real power of the project completion is the communication and collaboration between the team whoever is involving the task. Taking responsibility and splitting that to the team will help to avoid the confusion or error and will help to complete the task before the targeted time.

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• Seyfettin Dincturk 🎮💼 7+ Years of Video Game QA Experience | QA Tester at BlackMill Games | Ex-PlayStation, Electronic Arts, 2K Games, Apple, Abstraction Games

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  Work closely with your team, developers, and other stakeholders. Good communication ensures everyone is on the same page, reducing misunderstandings and improving the efficiency of the entire testing process.

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• Timo Klütsch "Audits mit Leidenschaft bringen Mehrwert"

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  Oft hat es sich ausgezahlt, mit Zertifizierern oder anderen Unternehmen in engem Kontakt zu sein und nach deren Stand der Technik und Dinge zu erkundigen. Wenn man auf einer professionellen Ebene agiert, sind Menschen auch nur Menschen und helfen sehr gerne. Das hilft einem nicht wenig um seinen Horizont zu erweitern

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• Kenzie Champagne As a GSK employee, being ambitious for patients makes me accountable for the work I do to provide safe products. My hope is that future employees will have the same ambition should I become a patient.

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  You cannot do it alone. Collaboration and communication are keys to success. Do this with a team and make sure QA is include to ensure all stakeholders involved are doing the right thing and being accountable for actions.

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• Renjith PR QA/QC Welding Inspector at Tecnicas Reunidas

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  In my experience learn from someone with more experience will help us a lot to have clear picture about the scene rather than a book study and continuous monitoring and study about the field which we are involved shall continue as long as they can.

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• Seyfettin Dincturk 🎮💼 7+ Years of Video Game QA Experience | QA Tester at BlackMill Games | Ex-PlayStation, Electronic Arts, 2K Games, Apple, Abstraction Games

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  Stay updated on new testing techniques, tools, and industry trends. Continuous learning helps you adapt to evolving challenges, making your testing methods more efficient over time.

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• Kenzie Champagne As a GSK employee, being ambitious for patients makes me accountable for the work I do to provide safe products. My hope is that future employees will have the same ambition should I become a patient.

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  Everyone’s job involves learning and continuous improvement. We learn more and more new ways of thinking through collaboration with others. A new perspective can be refreshing and keep us reflecting on what can be done differently. We have automated processes to ensure we are providing a safe product. When that process changes for the better to improve efficiency, we have to ensure our procedures capture these revisions. As always, QA must be consulted to ensure the right things are being done in a compliant manner for safety purposes to the consumer.

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• Cindy F. Humanized Leadership Mentor | Top Voice

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  Sometimes, it's all about having a solid process in place. It's not just how efficient your testing is, but how well everything's set up and runs.

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• Iulian Benea Experienced Engineer in test automation and cloud.

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  I have found that coming into a project your testing efficiency is measured by the business owners or stakeholders who, in the end, measure your efficency.

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  Sometimes work in progress is not measured until completion which may be too late to take corrective actions. So there should be a way to sample such work in progress

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• Indrakant Choudhary Manager at Axis Bank

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  • Automate Where Possible: Automate repetitive and time-consuming tests.• Prioritize Tests: Focus on high-impact tests based on the application’s risk.• Improve Test Cases: Write clear, concise, and reusable test cases.• Implement Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)• Use Performance Testing Tools: Identify and use tools that can help in load, stress, and performance testing. • Regular Feedback and Adaptation: Implement a feedback loop from testing to development to continuously improve processes. • Educate and Train Team: Ensure team members are well-trained in efficient testing practices.• Metrics and Analysis: Use metrics to analyze the effectiveness of testing processes .

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