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Imagination is the strongest tool for tester to use. Many times it isn't while directly testing the app that some thing falls apart it when you play with it. That's another secret to good testing. Play with the product. Example while testing a phone to send and receive SMS I was able to prove that it could send and receive and passed the test. I then tried to send and receive and the same time. The phone locked up. There was no test case designed for it. I was just playing with it.

Testers have to be creative with your test ideas. Think of scenarios that have not yet been tried. This is where you’ll save time by first understanding the duplicate bugs. It may sound hard, but it is time well spent in trying to understand the application and the scope for the test cycle. This creativity not only helps you for this particular test cycle, but will prove to be useful in other situations as well. So the point that you need to remember is this: Don’t just look for simple bugs. Go through the other reports logged and try to reproduce the bug and see if you can dig deeper for serious bugs. It does help to generate quite a few new ideas if you take some time and spend in reading other tester reports.

You will enjoy creativity in coming up with different attacks (methods for finding defects) to show presence (or absence) of defects. However, it is most likely that you will first have to execute tests created by others (less creativity here). Then you will have enough understanding of the different types of possible defects, and conceive new tests that others will execute (more creativity). Rather than executing test cases that have been written and executed over and over again, creative thinking testers adopt a more fitting and flexible approach to testing. Thinking testers delve into the unspoken assumptions and subject the product to a series of tests to determine its stability under different contexts and circumstances.

Creative testers are known to question the current testing methodologies and frameworks in order to find out the best-suited approach to a testing project. They will combine several different approaches to come up with a customized and suitable approach specific to the context of a project. If needed and feasible, thinking testers will rewrite old test scripts as well as write new ones. In some cases, creative testers may test randomly without writing a test case or following a series of defined test steps.

Thinking testers are known to think creatively, critically and broadly. They change the perspective of the whole team towards testing. Thinking testers adopt a brave and more flexible approach towards testing and challenge their teammates to do the same. Thinking testers take away the boredom that may frequently be associated with testing. Rather than simply testing the functionality and validating the product, creative thinking testers explore the product under different circumstances it may be susceptible to. Because of this, the delivered product is of a very high quality and has the highest chance of succeeding in the live environment.

Successful projects are a result of good people allowed to do good work. The characteristics that make someone succeed as a tester on an agile team are probably the same characteristics that make a highly valued tester on any team. Creativity, openness to ideas, willingness to take on any task or role, focus on the customer, and a constant view of the big picture are just some components of the agile testing mind-set. Good testers have an instinct and understanding for where and how software might fail, and how to track down failures.

Mindfire is a complete Agile software testing partner have have creative testers who do a good job of testing and delivering value. It is a 12 year old Offshore software testing company which holds creative testers and offer quality work in their projects and follows An “agile testing mind-set” is customer-focused, results-oriented, craftsman-like, collaborative, creative, eager to learn, and passionate about delivering business value in a timely manner. Its has 1000+ testing projects, 750+people with 4+ years of Average Experience ISTQB and QTP Certified QA Engineers, 75+ team of certified Testers , Experience on tools QTP, Selenium, Jmeter etc Experience in various verticals such as Healthcare, Mobile etc.

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