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QA Strategy Guide: Components, Steps, Metrics and Template

Your team runs nightly automation and keeps 1,400 manual test cases in a spreadsheet. The question “are we ready to release?” takes a meeting to answer. The Stack Overflow Developer Survey found that 84% of developers use or plan to use AI tools, and 46% distrust the accuracy of the output. New tools arrive faster […]

Michael Bodnarchuk

Oct 14, 2026

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Regression Testing vs Retesting: Key Differences With Examples

A developer fixes a bug and moves the ticket to Ready for QA. The tester needs to confirm that the bug fix works and that the existing features of the software application work as before. These checks are separate testing activities: retesting and regression testing. The CISQ report estimated the cost of poor software quality […]

Mykhailo Poliarush

Mykhailo Poliarush

Oct 09, 2026

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AI Test Case Generation: A Practical Guide for QA Teams

Your team gets a new batch of user stories every sprint, and the request for test cases arrives before the stories are final. You write the cases by hand, and half of your week goes to formatting steps and expected results. Capgemini’s World Quality Report found that 89% of organizations pilot or deploy Gen AI […]

Mykhailo Poliarush

Mykhailo Poliarush

Sep 29, 2026

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Mercury Testing: Running the Mercury 2.5 Diffusion LLM as Explorbot’s Planner

Explorbot is an open-source QA agent for autonomous testing of web applications. You point it at a URL. It reads the page, works out what the application does, proposes test scenarios, and runs them in a real browser. When something breaks, it reports the problem with steps to reproduce, and every verified scenario can become […]

Michael Bodnarchuk

Sep 11, 2026

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Manual Testing vs Automation Testing: Pros, Cons, and Key Differences

Your team already runs automated checks in CI and manual checks before each release. The World Quality Report 2025-26 by Capgemini shows a similar balance across the industry: teams automate 33% of their test cases on average, and manual checks cover the rest. So the real manual testing vs automation testing question is different: which […]

Tetiana Khomenko

Tetiana Khomenko

Sep 09, 2026

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Mobile App Testing: Types, Strategy, and Best Practices

Mobile app testing usually starts on an emulator. Your team runs the suite and releases once CI passes. But a crash report arrives from a Galaxy S25 during checkout. It happened on a build that passed everything. According to AppsFlyer’s 2025 app uninstall benchmarks report, the global average 30-day uninstall rate reached 46.1% in 2024. […]

Mykhailo Poliarush

Sep 02, 2026

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Test Cases in the Agentic Era: The Baseline AI Agents Need

AI agents are changing the economics of software development. Source code can now be generated, refactored, and replaced faster than it can be reviewed. Automated tests are generated as side artifacts of the code production, which raises the question of testing AI-generated code before it reaches production. For teams that adopt agentic AI in software […]

Michael Bodnarchuk

Aug 28, 2026

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Usability Testing for Mobile Apps: A Complete Guide

When your team releases a mobile app, the automated test suite passes successfully. Every functional test completes and the release is on schedule. Passing tests proves the app works. Whether anyone can use it is a separate question. You can see the difference only when real users interact with the product. That’s the task of […]

Tetiana Khomenko

Aug 26, 2026

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What is SDET? Software Development Engineer in Test Explained

You opened three SDET job listings, and each one reads like a different role. The first wants Selenium and Java. The second asks for Playwright with TypeScript. The third lists Kubernetes alongside test design and CI pipelines. So what does an SDET actually do, and is this the path you want to grow into? In […]

Tetiana Khomenko

Tetiana Khomenko

Jul 09, 2026

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Building an AI-Powered Test Case Drafting Skill with Testomat.io MCP

Writing manual test cases is one of those tasks that feels straightforward until it isn’t: every QA engineer on your team formats things slightly differently, context gets lost between features, and coverage gaps show up only when something breaks in production. My team solved this by building a reusable AI skill called test-case-drafting-template. This’s a […]

Daria Tsion

Jul 03, 2026

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Accessibility Testing Best Practices, Standards, and Workflows

When your team runs an accessibility scanner before every release, it catches the missing alt text and the low-contrast buttons. That’s the basic check. A mature approach goes deeper: it shows which WCAG criteria you cover and which failures repeat across releases. And once you move to continuous deployment,

Mykhailo Poliarush

Jun 23, 2026

Scalability Testing

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Scalability Testing: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Do It Right

Your application works fine with 100 users. But what happens when 10,000 show up at once? That’s the question scalability testing is designed to answer before real users find out the hard way. If you’re building software that needs to grow, scalability testing is one of the most important things you can do before a […]

Mykhailo Poliarush

May 29, 2026

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How to Reduce QA Testing Costs Without Cutting Quality

Testing budgets are under pressure everywhere. Yet when teams cut QA the wrong way — fewer testers, skipped test cycles, deferred automation — defects escape to production and cost far more to fix than they would have in a sprint. Understanding the full defect management process helps teams see exactly where those extra costs accumulate. […]

Tetiana Khomenko

May 25, 2026

QA Metrics

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QA Metrics: Software Testing Metrics That Actually Matter

Most QA teams track too many metrics, act on too few, and report on ones that look good rather than ones that reveal problems. A dashboard full of green numbers that hides a deteriorating codebase is worse than no dashboard at all — it creates false confidence. This article covers the software testing metrics worth […]

Mykhailo Poliarush

May 16, 2026

E-commerce Testing

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Ecommerce Testing Guide: Complete Test Plan & Checklist

An e-commerce website that crashes during Black Friday loses thousands of dollars per minute. A confusing checkout page drives customers away every single day. A security vulnerability exposes payment data and destroys years of trust in seconds. E-commerce testing prevents these disasters. But here’s what most teams get wrong: they treat testing as a checkbox […]

Mykhailo Poliarush

Feb 03, 2026

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