Software Testing and ancient principles of YOGA

Are you wondering how YOGA is related to software testing?

Yes, there are a lot of similarities between them. I just happen to read about various benefits of yoga and I found that the way yoga benefits your health, software testing benefits the health of the product you test.

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Improving flexibility

Yes off course one of the most obvious benefits of Yoga is improving your physical flexibility. In the same way, by means of testing, we improve the product quality. Especially, by focused customer-theme based testing and knowing more about customers, we can improve the ways and means of using our product. May be sample apps published and whitepapers written can help customers understand various ways they can make use of our products in flexible manner.

Improved health

Some of the benefits of Yoga include improved muscle strength, protecting spine, preventing cartilage and joint breakdown, and better bone health. In the same way, software testing improves the product health and quality. Security testing improves the software from getting health issues from attacks, performance testing helps the software to assure healthy performance and reliable product for customers and more importantly, functional testing helps the product to have good health and stamina in terms of product functionality.

Helps your focus

An important component of Yoga is focusing on the present. By ensuring same sprint automation and continuous integration, QA engineers can focus on current features testing and leave apart the regression tests.

Boosts your immune system functionality

Yes. Definitely Yoga boosts your immune system in the same way security testing boosts the immune of your software.

Definitely there are a lot more similarities. Also don't forget to check out this article which talks about app testing and Yoga.