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How to write multiple test step for same expected result

For example, I want write test case to load the page when user clicks on add button. There are two way on how I can view the add button: Step 1 : View Dashboard Step 2 : Click on Add Button or Step ...
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Getting the correct line of code for the Defect Density Calculation

Based on my understanding of Defect Density: Defect density = divide the total defects by total line of code. Question #1: Does the number of errors and failures in unit testing shoud be included in ...
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Responsibilities and suggested tasks of a QA/automation within an agile team?

I've been told by my line manager that I, as the sole QA tester and automation developer of our agile team, lack the engagement, commitment, and mindset of a quality lead, which I effectively am, by ...
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Why is a QA automation engineer preferred to a developer or cross-functional team approach?

After regularly seeing job openings for "QA automation engineer", I wonder why this role is so prominent? (I deliberately assume a specific view in this post, hoping to get interesting ...
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Will a developer be annoyed when a tester reports bugs one at a time instead of all at once?

There is sometimes the following situation happens to me: I report a bug. Then the dev fixes it. Then I re-test and discover a new one (I think it's not a new bug introduced, it's just me that missed ...
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Can TDD be a tester task?

I'm working in a team developing a web application frontend (using Angular) and backend (using Java). The manager and the team asked me to be in charge of doing TDD (since I am a test automation ...
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How does the QA Team Lead role change in a cross-functional agile teams structure?

My Product Team has a centralized QA team with a QA Team Lead. Currently, we are going through restructuration, which will distribute the QA team members among 4 existing dev teams: each team will ...
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Standards for Test Scenario [closed]

Is there any standards to create Scenarios, so that every QA will cover all the defects?
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Name a non-testing related activity that improved your testing? [closed]

I’m curious to know different activities that can help us as testers even that are not directly related to testing?
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How to find volunteering works in Testing?

How to find volunteering works in Testing? I am looking for volunteering works in either Manual or Automation Testing. I am a Salesforce Certified Administrator, ISTQB certified Tester. Could anyone ...
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How do you track trends in software testing? [closed]

How do you track trends in the industry? Do you use any tooling for this?
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Can Test Automation Engineers call themselves Software Developers or Programmers? [closed]

One of my colleague asked me if what I do is a part of software development. He said that can you call yourself a developer or a programmer/coder or someone who is creating/developing test scripts for ...
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Which is the best tool for free temporary email service? [closed]

I checked the various tools for it but want to know about the best tool for my requirement. found some of the high rated tools on web: TEMPMAIL MAILDROP MAILINATOR Mail7 YOPMAIL Although I tried all ...
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Is there any disposable email service that allows receiving verification emails at a temporary address?

Is there any disposable email service that allows receiving verification emails at a temporary address that self-destructs after 24 hours so that it will be helpful in automation of 'customer ...
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What does a bug do to you?

(Warning: this is not a question about a factual problem, rather a subjective discussion about approaches to deal with them. Sorry, I saw the warning - but still hope this is possible here. If not, I'...
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how to automate developers tools - console [duplicate]

How can we automate developer tools - console section using Selenium? how to get data from the console for a particular service call. ex: as per the screenshot attached I what to know a.fn.init[div#...
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Jmeter - All threads other than current thread wait

I am new to Jmeter and I have been struggling with my test plan. Test plan steps: Enters the site Creates multiple wish lists (like the wish list on amazon) In the wish list dashboard the order of ...
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Not able to create login 401 error on login authentication error https://cis-dev1.manageamerica.com/Account/LogOn [closed]

https://cis-dev1.manageamerica.com/Account/LogOn User :- cis-dev Password:- UiCD!s5s3ieQ
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Legal test (on pre-producten Stage) slows down deliveries. How can I structure or accelerate this process?

In the course of, among other things, legal test procedures in the staging area, we have integrated a further step, namely pre-production, in which our lawyers check the texts of the pages to be ...
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What are the proper metrics and methodologies for measuring how well a QA department is doing?

I'm trying propose meaningful changes to measure how well the QA department in our company is doing. I've gone through similar Stackexchange pages that go over measuring a teams/individual's ...
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not any locator works My Email address field are not fields automatically in testing selenium on login page

import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox....
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How to test SSO integration?

I am doing QA for a website, and they have recently added SSO integration for their website. How can I manually test that this SSO integration is working fine. Also I need to automate the testing ...
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How can I keep this framework scalable?

I am developing an automated test suite for regression testing using Extent Reports, Selenium WebDriver and C#. The tests are confined to a single Visual Studio console app. What I have right now ...
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Capture arguments of onclick() javascript call using Selenium Java

I am writing a selenium script in Java to capture the arguments passed in JavaScript onclick() call/method. Attached is the image in which method/function name is highlighted. Now, In this method ...
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Error while running automated scripts in robot framework

'pybot' is not recognized as an internal or external command I am installing Python, Pip, Robot Framework and its all needed libraries and its working fine. 1) Python, Pip & Robot Framework all ...
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How can QA honestly identify their own strengths and weaknesses?

As a QA, I think of myself as being a bit above average in my field. I get paid well, I get promotions, & I never had any problem getting a good job. I am fortunate enough to meet with new people ...
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Communication vs. Technical skills ,how to choose in a given hiring QA position?

Context: As been involved in QA hiring positions from last couple of years in different companies, I have been seeing the trend as QA is getting more and more technical.Now it is reaching to a point ...
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Asking behavior change to allow easier testing

I'm a QA engineer (the first and only one in my workplace) and I'm trying to automatize tests using Selenium + Java. I'm working on an application where there is a calendar use to select the user ...
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What is the level of coding needed to be a QA automation engineer?

I'm a manual tester that has started to work on appium and selenium automation work, but I have not architect a framework nor can I write code to work with an api to integrate lets say Testrails and ...
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How unit testing helps QA testers?

I've faced this question in an interview..But I couldn't answer it well... Actually, I don't know the exact and professional answer for this one...Can anyone please help
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Selenium C# Tests on Various Browsers

I would like to run my tests on multiple browsers but NOT in parallel. I want to provide a pop up to the user to choose which browser (IE, Chrome, Firefox) to execute all tests on when first started. ...
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How to provide more value from test automation to Dev/entire team?

Working primarily as UI test automation engineer, what further steps one should take to be more valuable & useful to the Dev team. How one take automation to a level where it becomes an handy ...
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Test automation role: challenges beyond automated tests and frameworks?

Before asking the actual question, let me describe the current situation. The IT department consists of a few Scrum-like teams, with one or two software testers per team. Furthermore there are two ...
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Setting the Benchmark for performance Test

I have a task to set a performance benchmark using stat given by google analytics. Google Analytics stats: My Research:- What I did was Since daily user count is 122154 I set benchmark as follows: ...
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Error Rate of Jmeter Execution Report

I execute jmeter script via Blazemeter and I got 2% error. Is it a acceptable rate? In detail report I observed 1353 request are failed. I just run the script for one user. In that case non of the ...
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How to make while loop for example 5 automatic registration account

How to make while loop for example 5 automatic registration account this is my code and I want to make an automatic python script for 5 registration account from selenium import webdriver driver = ...
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How application log lead to software quality assurance?

In my application there are multiple log files existed in test environment and production environment. How those application log leads to better software quality?
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How to export test cases in the latest selenium IDE

How do I export test cases in the latest version of Selenium IDE? There is no export option in the file menu.
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Is checking web content for typos and spelling mistakes part of QA or testing?

At my work a test manager is getting her team to raise any bugs or defects within JIRA. When I look at JIRA bug reports, there are a whole lot of text copy issues raised for web content. I always ...
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Testing Google Address Autocomplete

We currently have a test that brings the test to and address page. The test types in 123 and selects the first suggestion by Google's Address Autocomplete API. What we are running into is that we ...
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How to avoid Upwork scams [closed]

Has anyone been a freelancer on Upwork.com? Is this site a legit remote work place? I don't want to get identity theft from sharing my info and my computer. I need experience to showcase I can do ...
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How can I help speed up/improve the client QA process?

I work as a Developer on a product that is implanted in the client's website. In our development process, we develop the application, deploy to our Development environment, do testing to see if ...
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What are key advantages of adding developer who can test vs tester who can code

Background: To hire for an engineer position in a small(2-3 developers) agile team where there is no existing "tester" in the team. Problem statement: We are trying to decide what skills we should be ...
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Beginner S.R.S testing section writing advice

I'm writing the Testing section for a SRS for a group project. We started out with the IEEE std 830-1993 SRS template but have kinda moulded it around our project to suit our needs. We are taking an ...
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What are the tools that we can use to automate, before completion of the development?

I'm kind of new to software automation and I'm doing UI automation by using selenium webdriver. I have heard that there are some tools, that can automate a system before we get the UI of the system ...
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How will automation testing be different at all Software Testing Level?

I have a few doubts about Automation Testing at each testing level, These question is being asked in an interview. Test Level:- 1. Unit Testing 2. Integration Testing 3. System Testing 4. User ...
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Multiple product-specific QA teams vs a single generic QA team

Our company has been growing and with it our products and the QA team. Our QA team previously has only handled a single "headline" company's product and had this "startup"-like flexible and agile ...
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Contract-to-hire - viable to break into industry?

I am about to graduate with a BS in software development. I am proficient in Java, javascript, html, and css, but I feel like I'd like to orient my career more toward software testing and QA than ...
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How to move toward Dev Ops in testing from Agile

We are looking to move towards DevOps methodology. Currently, we are using Agile methodologies in testing. We, as a team wants to increase the number of deployments/releases in a year. For this, we ...
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Tests for a printer this is connected in a campus and need to identify the student using it to print his pages

Well, it's my first time I've encoutered QA, the interview will consist of programming questions and QA questions for student Automation role(Programming automation programs that check other company's ...
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