For questions concerning proper naming of events, activities, practices, or tools used in SQA. Using a proper terminology helps team collaboration and hence improves the overall quality of a Product.
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What's the difference between “testing” and “quality assurance”?
Is there a difference between "testing" and "quality assurance"? If so, what are the main goals of each process? What are the critical differences?
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11answers
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Are code reviews considered part of QA?
I was having a discussion with a fellow developer and we were talking about QA practices. I was thinking that code review would be a QA practice because you're not making anything, but rather are ...
11
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6answers
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Installation testing is part of functional or non-functional testing?
In your test strategy/testing where would the installation testing (set-up/deployment with or without installer) belong? Is it a part of functional testing or non-functional testing?
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4answers
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What is the difference between “automated testing” and “automated regression testing”?
"Automated Testing" as a term seems to have a number of different uses. For some, it means built in unit tests that, when a new build is run, execute to make sure code refactors have not broken ...
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6answers
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Differences between: QA, QC, Software Testing, Verification, Validation, Prevention and Detection
I've trouble understand the differences between these terms:
"Quality Assurance", "Quality Control", "Software Testing", "Verification", "Validation", "Prevention" and "Detection".
Here is what I ...
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4answers
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What's the difference between code coverage and test coverage?
At first I though it was the same but with eclemma it seems different. But I can't find anything about it.
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3answers
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Any good references on Privacy Testing?
I heard a reference to Privacy testing recently (James Whittaker mentioned it here.) and it seems like a valuable area to know something about. It's extremely important these days as companies balance ...
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4answers
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What do you do when you encounter overloaded terminology in your workspace?
I've been in many difference sized companies and in many different environments where we've used terms interchangably, Testing Terms, Development Terms and Process types have been overloaded in one ...
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5answers
963 views
What is the difference between sanity and smoke testing?
When there is a new build we perform smoke testing,in few projects they call it as sanity testing.Can someone please elaborate on the difference between the both.
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7answers
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What is the difference between regression testing and re-testing?
I was asked this question in an interview recently. Just wanted to see what your opinions were on this...
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3answers
4k views
What is shakeout testing?
What is shakeout testing? Googling gives things such as,
To identify an initial test which
verifies that a load has been
successful and all software is
accessible and functioning as
...
4
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2answers
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Is this a good simplification of fake object types?
With every unit testing text I get my hands on comes a little different terminology and more or less different definitions of various fake object types. I find that a lot of this differentiation is ...
4
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5answers
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What would be a good term for continuous testing post-deployment?
I'm thinking of live production sites here, where there is a continuous community or much content being updated, sort of like a newspaper site or community site (the one I work at is a healthcare ...
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3answers
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Why testing, by definition, cannot find deadlocks and stack overflows?
Sean M. Beatty says in "Where testing fails" article that "deadlocks, stack overflows, race conditions and timing problems cannot be detected by testing (whether it is code inspection, whide-box ...
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2answers
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Does system testing precedes system integration testing?
Accordin to ISTQB etc., it should. But from practice I can see it is not that clear.
An example: We have a backend (pulling data from external systems, processing...), DB, and frontend.
Testers do ...
3
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2answers
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How would you call backward porting testing?
A real life example-
Linux Kernel A feature B was tested and released,
Linux Kernel A+1 feature B+1 was tested and released
Now feature B+1 is ported back into Linux Kernel A
How should I call the ...
2
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3answers
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Fail over testing Terminology
I am working in a Manual System testing team, we are expected to test what happens if the SQL databases, supporting servers go down, load balancing falls over that the websites respond with the ...
2
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2answers
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What is Functional Show Stopper in Bug Tracking?
Functional Show Stopper comes as one parameter of 'Priority'. I know Show Stopper.. but what is Functional Show Stopper ? What kind of issues can be categorized under this ?
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3answers
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Is my test a perf unit functional smoke test or something else?
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
Each test is different. Some are big and talk to databases, others quick and self contained.
We all know we'd prefer the fastest and most robust ...
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2answers
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If a test mocks out one dependency but not another, is it still a unit test or does it become a functional test?
My code is something like:
function Controller(dep0, dep1) {
dep0.call();
dep1.call();
};
The test is something like:
function test() {
dep0Mock = mock.create();
controller = new ...
2
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2answers
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ISTQB: testing = analysis but dynamic testing != dynamic analysis?
This is more like an academic question. Although, common perception is that dynamic analysis is testing itself, most of advanced sources (but AFAIK also the ISTQB) distinct between:
dynamic testing ...
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2answers
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What is Pre-beta release?
I've been coming across this term too much recently. But I'm not sure what it is. I know about Alpha testing and Beta testing. I know the version of the application made available to users for and ...
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3answers
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Suitability of functional testing to problems with many interrelated inputs
I have read that functional testing is not that suitable when there is a lot of interrelated inputs. Is my understanding correct that e.g. following program would be really difficult to test using ...
0
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1answer
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Fundamental classification- discrepancies
Is there any trusted, verified and regarder classification of testing? The discrepancies I talk about are like:
Functional testing =testing against documentation/requirements to verify functions ...
