Test management is the process of organizing and maintaining tests. Contrast with [tag:team-management].
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How long does it typically take to progress from Test Analyst to Senior TA to Test Lead to Test Manager?
How long does it typically take to progress from Test Analyst to Senior TA to Test Lead to Test Manager?
I've been working as a TA for almost a year and was wondering how long it typically takes to ...
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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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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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How to automatically break Unit Tests when their related Requirements change (before any code change)
The shop I work for has recently switched to Agile/Scrum software development. We've started logging User Stories, and defining their scope with Acceptance Criteria. So, we have
Features defined ...
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Modifying multiple Test Cases status [duplicate]
Sometimes I have a list of test cases in the Test Lab and I want to their Status to be changed. Is there any neat way to do it except of just going and doing that one by one?
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Automated Test Management: Running, Saving Results, Querying, etc
The team I am currently working with has a very large application to test (several custom programs, running in a distributed environment), and has built up a very large set of automated test cases for ...
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How do you manage large sets of Acceptance Criteria?
Where I work we've recently made the switch to SCRUM. We've gone through the usual problem involved in such a transition from Waterfall but, overall, we now have a functional Agile/SCRUM approach.
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I should follow ISO 12207 but how should I verify integration/code without testing?
I am forced to follow ISO 12207 for systematic approach. I have been reading a lot here and found similar questions, yet not the same one and definitely not any suitable answer.
According to this ...
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Is QC effective for QA teams that write their own test automation solutions?
I am an experienced software developer and team leader. Lately, I joined a project in which I am supposed to manager the QA process. My team will be composed of Software Engineer in Test members since ...
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Can we auto create TestCases from the PBI Acceptance Criteria?
Is there a way to auto create Test Cases from the Acceptance criteria defined in TFS?
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Test Data Bank creation: approach, important points, useful links, data generators, file storages?
Being Senior QA, I often face one and the same problem: for every project I'm involved in I need to prepare / collect / generate various sort of testing data. It might be VERY different - below are ...
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What other standards exist for Hardware QA?
I have been tasked with considering standards that can be used for hardware testing and QA - the hardware in this case being, for example, DAQ (DAC/ADC) and timing systems for diagnostics in a physics ...
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Open source tool for QA Management,which can provide integration with Bugzilla and jira [closed]
Which is the BEST Open source tool for QA Management, which can provide integration with Bugzilla and jira.
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Open project vs Project Libre [closed]
Have you experience of using these and the knowledge to make a comparision between them for the suitability of managing a testing effort?
https://www.openproject.org
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Deployment Testing - when to perform
In order to put an updated service live we have a test team who conduct SAT, UAT etc and the desktop support team will create a Rapid Install Package (RIP) for deployment. My question is when is it ...
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Bug Reporting/Tracking Solution for Third Party and In-house Teams
I am gearing up to start a project where development will be taking place in-house and with a third party at the same time.
I am trying to find a solution which will allow both us and the third ...
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Should a scrum be any different for testers from multiple teams?
I am about to start managing a team of testers within a company. Each tester is on a different team, one tester per team. For example, one tester is on the database team, another on the software ...
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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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Looking for an excellent example of using a spreadsheet for test case management
It is an unfortunate reality of our industry that many testers are stuck using a spreadsheet to manage their test cases.
I wanted to ask (in a community wiki), what are some good techniques and ...
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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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Top n tests failing most frequently in TeamCity
We're considering including top n test failing most frequently into smoke test suite. We want to test things that have tendency to break.
How can we find such tests in TeamCity 6?
I see no related ...
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Looking for test management tool to integrate with JIRA, Hudson, SoapUI, and Selenium
I'm checking an open source test management tool for my company. The main options are Xqual and Testlink.
In the past I worked on Testlink, played a bit with Xstudio.
Our product is written in Java, ...
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Open source test management tools [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Looking for test management tool to integrate with JIRA, Hudson, SoapUI, and Selenium
I'm looking for an open source test management tool. Our application is written in ...
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Are metrics something important?
When I worked for a CMMI level 5 company, they used a predictive approach for almost all and for that same reason metrics were very important, they were the inputs for next projects. But now, I think ...
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Where can I find ISTQB Foundation mock exams with reliable answers?
Where can I find ISTQB mock exams with reliable answers?
I have heard that there are a lot of sites with mock exams but they told me to be careful because some of their answers are not correct.
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Documentation tool in Session-Based Test Management (SBTM)?
I wonder if anyone have experience of a tool for session-based testing?
Nowadays we use SharePoint lists where we can write down our session plus other relevant info about the session (requirement, ...
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Is there traceability matrix in agile?
In traceability matrix the links between requirements and tests can help answer:
Which requirements is almost never tested, and which is tested extremely often?
Will a change to a particular ...
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MS Test manger not able to stop a test and re-start with attachments taken
Is there a way when using test manager to stop a test part of the way through close down test manager and continue the run at a later date with the attachments you have taken?
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How to set a parameter in MS Test Manager 2010 to open a web browser
I have recently started using Microsoft Test Manager 2010 and watched a few videos on the features for it. In one of the videos there was a shared step that when you run the test manually it opened ...
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Any good UI evaluation documentation tools?
I am looking for a specific tool which will help me document what I see when I perform web site usability evaluations. At the end of each evaluation, I need to create an report for my client. The ...
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What is automation testing and why do we need it?
I am new to the field of software testing. I would like to clarify the following basic things:
As there were different types of testing process, we used to do manually enter testcases and write for ...
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How to deal with automated test cases that always fail?
I'm facing a lot of automated GUI tests that fail one or more verifications during their run. All the failings points have been reported in our tracking system and they are known issues but get ...
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How to keep track of the features in a website for impact analysis?
I have been working for an ecommerce client for the last 6 years as manual and automation QA engineering. New features gets applied to our site once in 2 weeks. Whenever a redesign project comes up, ...
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The structure of test logs?
I am working on a project which involves documenting test logs. I want to know the structure of test logs (what should be included).
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Language preferences in the QA community
I work on a test management tool that includes a REST API.
We are looking to add code examples for consumption of the API as well as client libraries.
Initially we were looking to target Python for ...
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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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Updates to scripts in test lab
It's been my understanding that when using Test Lab in Quality Center, if changes are made within a script, i.e data/ criteria change those updates DO NOT go backwards and update the the case in Test ...
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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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How to organize Test Plans in Microsoft Test Manager
Question: for those of you who create Test Plans based on product area rather than per iteration, why? And for those of you who create new, fresh Test Plans based on your release cycle (iteration / ...
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Is it possible to use TFS (Without Test Manager) with open source test management tools?
Is it possible to use Team Foundation Server (Without Test Manager) with open source test management tools, for example Bugzilla as the management interface linking in with Team foundation server?
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Setting the resolution of the slave used by Network Suite of TestComplete wanted
We are using a Network Suite inside of TestComplete 9 to do distributed testing. We have already setup a project that executes on 2 remote computers, our slaves.
Sometimes the resolution on the slave ...
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How is the QA org chart across organisations? [closed]
Is QA org a separate vertical operating across different portfolios or is it distributed in each portfolio and detached from other portfolios in the same organisation ?
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How to understand existing test coverage?
I believe this is a common issue for any QA that enters a project with existing test base.
I entered the project which have lots of unit tests and FIT tests for existing functionality. When I test a ...
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Framework and tools for managing testing and monthly releases?
I'm not anywhere close to being an expert on professional QA and testing but I do work with it as part of managing a IT system at work. To be honest, we are not very mature when it comes to using an ...
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Is a Final Release Report a good way to communicate results?
I'm getting ready to release the next version of our software. In the past when the release is ready to go I will send around an email saying "release xxx is done" and include a basic set of release ...
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Courses for non-IT people to study testing?
I am a non-IT student, but I want to enter into the IT world. Which courses do I have to study to get job in testing? What is the difference between QA tester and ISTQB tester? Which is the best ones?
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Analysis of test steps in HP ALM
Using HP Application Lifecycle Management v11 to track testing, defects, etc. Within this web app they have analysis features that let you create graphs/reports for defects/tests/test instances. Does ...
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What should I be concerned about testing online game in general? [closed]
I have background in software application testing, but I am pretty new to game testing. I would like to seek some advice when considering taking on game testing project. What type of questions should ...
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Separate tasks between development and QA
As my company begins its first agile project, I'm wondering if it would be easier to have separate tasks for QA and development for each story/requirement. Is it a cleaner process or will the lack of ...
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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 ...
