An application that is not tested is more likely to have errors as it evolves. With time, testers have discovered various test frameworks for different types of testing. We cannot say that there are 100% error-free application, but we still leverage testing efforts to improve product quality. Development teams do not trust their coding skills completely which is why software testing is taking back the digital transformation efforts. Henceforth, a software testing company also considers visualization for taking testing to a whole different level. There is a lot of information available on the internet when it comes to testing visually. So how about the idea of integrating visualization into the testing tools?
Tool for Manual QA Testers
Quality assurance (QA) managers believe that testing at the early stages of the software development process can improve product quality. Right from generating ideas, write test cases to check the quality of features and bug-reporting, visualization plays a vital role every step of the way towards production.
How Does Visualization Work in Testing?
Let’s have a look at how testers can embed visualization in software testing and improve software quality:
1. Review Products Visually
QA teams should have a good imagination for finding new test cases, test scenarios and finding bugs and rectifying them. Testers should have product sketches that allow them to see how the new product will look like. They should follow these steps when preparing for reviews:
- Documentation – Keeping in view the textual description of the product, testers should be able to draw the future product.
- Mocks – Testers should check the mocks without checking who will be using the product. Multiple image creation will allow the step-by-step development of the product.
- Get to know the Users – It is important to compare the mocks with the expectations of the users. This helps QA experts in meeting user requirements.
2. Visualizing Test Documentation
The pro-tips for visualizing test documentation are:
- Adding mocks to the test plans will allow team members to understand the tests and find out why the tests were written in the first place.
- Test coverage visualization will help in sorting how many test cases have already been written.
3. Adding Visual Touch While App Testing
Let’s see different ways in how testers add visual touch during app testing:
- UI Testing Approach – Testers may use tools to take screenshots and compare them. Tools allow you to create a screenshot of how a product looks currently. These screenshots become a check of the UI testing, and will highlight all the changes on the page as compared to the screenshot’s testers took earlier.
- Page Alignment – Testers may also use the ruler to check the alignment of a page, as it may disrupt due to changes caused by font sizes, buttons, animations, etc.
4. Bug Reporting
Most of the time developers close a bug as ‘cannot reproduce’ status, which is practically not possible in all cases. Developers tend to ignore reading the test descriptions. They usually need the visuals which work fine as information regarding the test cases. So, it doesn’t mean that text should not be added to test cases, but the visuals should be strengthened to make bug-reporting efficient.
Conclusion
We know that visualization is an important tool used in the software development process that ensures quality. There are various ways in which visualization can contribute to the development process. Whether it is including a test link on a page or complete automation of tests for the future product, visualization has it covered. Imagine if visualization is used as a separate tool in software testing, it could have positive impacts on testing in the future. Because even the simplest tools can help testers achieve their goals and make software testing more interesting.