John Ruberto

Testing challenges for emerging growth companies

Congratulations, you have a winning product that is well received and growing fast. But with fast market growth comes a number of challenges, including testing your product to ensure continuous quality. Generally, when...

Questions Every QA Director Must Ask Themselves #3: What to do about Flaky Tests?

Flaky tests are worse than useless. At least If they were just useless, we could ignore them. What makes them worse than useless? For one, you cannot rely on the automated test result, so your team usually has to...

Questions every QA Director must ask themselves #2: What is Risk-Based Testing and how can I use it?

I was appalled – the QA engineer was playing a video game instead of doing real testing! But it turned out that I rushed to conclusions too fast. The video game was actually part of the test plan. The QA engineer was...

Questions every QA Director must ask themselves #1: How can my team prevent problems?

The health-care industry has a story they like to tell, it’s called the River Story and involves a group of rescuers working very diligently to help save all the people drowning in the river. Since the flow of...