Test Design is the selection of test aims, methodologies and implementation methods to satisfy the goals of a testing scenario.
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Is unit and component testing sufficient?
If you can test every line of [your product's] code via unit tests, wouldn't unit testing alone (theoretically) be sufficient?
Are there other "necessary" benchmarks of proper test coverage other ...
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Difference between requirement, use case, and scenario?
I've taken a class on software testing best practices and test design. In the content, they have a model that basically shows that the three items are derived in this way:
Requirements > Use case > ...
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Any good test plan/cycles or experiences without using crowdsourcing?
I'm trying to rethink our test cycle that we use at my company and am wondering if anyone could give any leads, examples, experiences, etc. to how you test without the use of crowdsource data. The ...
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Best QA techniques [closed]
Can anyone tell me what are the best techniques to do a full QA on a social networking sites. I have a social networking site which is now growing each day. A whole lot of feature have been developed ...
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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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how to test mobile application which uses wifi connection?
i am in need to test the application which was working based on the wi-fi signal strength,is it there any application/automation tool to randomize my wifi signal and check for applications ...
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testing an nfc application
my company is currently developing an NearFieldCommunication(NFC) based application,what can be the test scenarios need to be checked for nfc based application ?how to test the applications which uses ...
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How to obtain “fresh mind” results?
I noticed that when you start on a project with a beginner mind (for that particular product) you have a fresh approach and start noticing a lot of bugs.
After a while and some experience with that ...
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Should A Formal Test Plan For Dynamic String Testing Include All Combinations?
Situation:
Large enterprise web application
Formal test plan in HP Application Lifecycle Management (née Quality Center)
Many dynamic text strings in the web application with several variables
An ...
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Is there a guide or systematic way of writing test scenarios?
Are there best practices in coming up with effective test scenarios? Are there documented test scenarios that can be reused across different systems?
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Web application GUI automation best practices
Our team develops automation solutions for various web based products.
I'd like to compile a list of patterns and best practices from the GUI web automation space that have been used and proven as ...
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Are there common techniques for testing the conformance of an implementation to a general contract?
Say you have defined some abstract interface and you specify a general contract for that interface to which all implementations must adhere. Are there common techniques that can facilitate testing the ...
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Best practices for organising and naming test cases
I have a Python package which may contain several modules. Of course, I have unit tests, component tests, and functional tests. All of them are in package/module/test directories, most of them are ...
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Internationalization testing
By internationalization testing I intend testing application with one or more additional languages and one or more additional regional settings (locale).
We expect a number of risks with ...
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Where to start when testing web pages with large number of options
I have inherited a web application that has no useful requirements/specifications, and no tests. The page that I am currently looking at sets the configuration options for the application and consists ...
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How to test a location based application
Our application is location based. We have tested its main functionality, (using mock locations) and now it is time to test how it reacts on real cases using GPS.
So, what are the main limitations ...
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What are the tiers of testing that should be done on a large scale distributed system?
Let's say you have a large distributed system in the cloud that's got dozens of developers working on it and actively adding code to. Your job is to make sure all of the quality gates are used and the ...
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What Are Some Examples of Why Explicit Sleep Statements Are Bad
I've read various places that explicit sleep statements are a bad practice in automated tests, even if I've used them occasionally. They can be annoying (creating unnecessary waiting in tests) but I ...
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Where to focus testing? On integration level or unit level?
Consider a modern web application that serves JSON through a REST API to a rich Javascript-based application with one or more single-page apps within it. Our own application is written using Angular ...
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How does the DataSource attribute on a test run the test multiple times?
This is going to be a bit long/wordy/verbose, but I've been looking at it for a while and I think that I'm bad at explaining things because people seem to get confused about what I'm asking.
You know ...
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How to make sure your test data are correct?
We are doing integration tests where we simulate manually data coming from external systems to our application. Integration tests task has become bottleneck in our team, because preparing test data is ...
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Fitnesse editor with syntax validation?
We use Fitnesse with tens of project-specific fixtures to design the tests. However, writing the correct test is tedious, because of some trivial errors we make:
Syntax errors: unclosed tables, ...
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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 ...
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What are some good test cases in order to do License Key authentication while software is being installed?
I want to learn about:
What could be the test cases to ensure the test coverage while any proprietary software is being installed using a license key. I wish to avoid (a) re-installation (b) multiple ...
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In performance testing, when have MFAT approaches been successfully applied (in addition to an OFAT approach)?
Background:
MFAT = "Multiple Factors at a Time"
OFAT = "One Factor at a Time"
In the field of Design of Experiments, practitioners in a large variety of fields (including software testing) have ...
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What is the best practice for testing against modules which collect statistic
We have a distributed application which should be monitored. There are some modules which collect external data (disk usage, free disk space, CPU utilization, memory utilization, etc) and some ...
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What are the best practices for Integration Testing of a middle-ware?
I want to know about the best practices of Integration Testing for a middle-ware product. It includes several backends and also I want to test it over multiple platforms. The features of Clustering is ...
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Is there a name for this type of vector operation?
I often find myself wanting to generate a lot of negative test cases by mutating a known good set of inputs.
Let's say I have a function that will accept (a, b, c) as an expected valid input for a ...
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Conditional statement for fail and error test outcomes in Selenium?
Say I have this function:
def tearDown(self):
""" clean up by closing the browser window """
self.driver.quit()
I want to skip closing the browser if the test failed or errored out (so ...
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How common is testing based on log files analysis?
Here is a document that outlines challenges and solutions of testing of Mars Science Laboratory:
http://compass.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ws-slides/havelund.pdf
I found the approach of log files ...
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What proportion of different types of software testing does your team use?
Note: I've asked this over on SO and p.SE and it got closed. I'm not trying to game the system, just looking for a home :)
I'm seeking a little "wisdom of crowds" estimation or a pointer to an ...
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Testing/Verifying Google Analytic code
I need help figuring out a test methods for Google Analytic. Our client pushes out a lot of marketing campaigns and they love using GA to track what is working, what is not working and where to focus ...
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test cases for conversation unsubscription in a email
I am a newbie at testing.
The scenario described here is what happens when a user tries to unsubscribe from a conversation using Mailing list manager.
To unsubscribe the user sends an email ...
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What are the first steps a tester should perform when using combinational testing?
Hypothetically, lets assume that I am testing the "Search and compare flights" functionality of this website*, and I want to apply a combinational testing technique.
Where should a tester start this ...
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Are Mind Maps useful as a testing tool?
I don’t know much about Mind maps but I’ve seen expert testers (James Bach and Michael Bolton) use them to plan out their test strategy – usually in a demonstration. It seems like a plausible way to ...
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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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Encouraging project teams to define Edge cases
Can you please give me concrete examples of Edge cases preferably for Financial systems (General Ledger) and STP Settlements to help us kick start the right kind of thinking /approach by both the ...
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XMLs and JMS queue trigger to database - what to test?
I'm testing a system that involves XMLs from a JMS queue getting inserted into a database using a JMS trigger (webmethods).
Firstly, I turn off the JMS trigger to let messages accumulate on the ...
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Promoting Non-Functional Testing
What advice can you give for encouraging Project managers, and Developers to factor in tests for purposes of proving an application system's performance, resilience, capacity, scaleability etc beyond ...
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How can I use causal loop diagrams to help me test?
Causal loop diagrams seem like a really powerful tool for modelling a system - but I have no experience with applying them to my testing.
Do you use causal loop diagrams? How do you use them, and ...
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IPv4/IPv6 dependency testing
Research from the Software Improvement Group has shown that 1 in every 12 applications behaves incorrectly when confronted with a dual-stack IPv4+IPv6 environment. How does Quality Assurance usually ...
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When is it inappropriate to use white box testing?
Sometimes, tasked with testing a piece of software for which there are no requirements, a tester will resort to white box testing. Are there times when that is inappropriate?
Here is an example. At ...
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What online games (ideally with a bunch of glitches) would make for a good software testing training exercise?
I'll be giving a 3-day course on software test design later this month with lots of hands-on exercises. I'd like to include one or more exercises that would involve testing an online game for ...
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Test case design standards- friend or foe?
Currently we use an agile team based approach to testing, where each team is responsible for their specific area of a product. While we have found this to be effective and easily manageable, over ...
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Testing database transformation mappings
If regularly testing the creation of different datawarehouse tables using mappings from source tables. What do you suggest is the best approach or specific SQLs to do the trick?
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What new things need to be covered in Embedded Systems testing compared to normal manual testing?
Can you provide me with some common checklist for Embedded Systems testing please? What are the new things that are covered in this?
And can you also advise me some interesting references for reading ...
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Test isolation and automation
We are using Selenium webservices for our automated functional testing .
I have a test which tests creation of some objects. If I run the same test again, I need to make sure that each test has a ...
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xUnit tests patterns for testing threaded applications
Are there either any xUnit (or otherwise) design patterns or anti-patterns for testing threaded code?
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Is Selenium's LoadableComponent a good solution as test design pattern?
I need to refactor my Selenium tests, and come across their LoadableComponent wiki page. I began trying to use it, though I couldn't really understand what is it good for. I took a look at their ...
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How to use Selenium's PageFactory annotations with dynamic loaded elements?
I'm rewriting some Selenium tests according to the page object design pattern taking advantage of Seleniums' annotations. My problem is that I have some html select elements whose option elements are ...
