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Do ISTQB/ISEB Testing Certificates prove someone can test?
I have passed the foundation level exam, and to be honest, i'm pretty sure that anyone could pass that exam with a couple of days of studying. My question is are they certificates really of value to ...
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Are state transition diagrams a good software testing technique
I have been looking at different testing techniques and wondered if anyone had some "real world" examples of using state transition diagrams rather than the bog standard clock and light switch ones ...
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Favorite troubleshooting tips for testers?
At CAST2011, Chris Blain spoke about troubleshooting tips he's found helpful as a tester. Ones I especially identified with:
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Take no one's word, and make no assumptions
Look for other causes
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Which are the prevention activities that QA executes?
Most of my tester friends say that one important part of quality assurance position is "prevention". I´ve read a lot in the university about costs of quality and cost of poor quality and prevention ...
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Performance Testing a cloud application
What are the best approaches and what concerns are there about performance testing a web application that is hosted in the cloud?
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How many types of testing i should perform?
We have developed a project, QA already verify the project and now its ok to air. but i am still wondering about expected bugs.
So my question is how many testing technique is there to certify a ...
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Deployment Testing
What kind of things should be looked at after you have deployed a new system? So far I can think of the following:
Things to check:
a) Check it deploys to right folder: Open machine where build is ...
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How to test the graphical contents of a bitmap or a PDF file?
The module I'm testing creates some graphical reports which include things like scatter plots and multipage line graphs. The bitmap will never be exactly the same between test runs, since some ...
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What are the benefits of Block Testing?
I came across the term "Block Testing" in the book "How We Test At Microsoft". I can't really see how this should be applied, should you do this instead of statement testing? From what I understand ...
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Layer testing - How should I test data replication/update?
I have a development background and now I'm starting with software QA. While building a solution developers often create code which is shared among different platforms/applications. One example is the ...
