Test management is the process of organizing and maintaining tests. Contrast with [tag:team-management].
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Where to start with introducing a testing framework
This I hope won't come across too broad of a question.
If you've been tasked with introducing testing process' for a web application developed in an 'agile' environment, released in 2 weekly cycles. ...
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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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Test Case Management Software
I currently write automated tests using WebDriver/Selenium 2 and utilize the Page Object model. I'd like to start documenting manual tests but our current process is only creating test cases in MS ...
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What should be a ideal Bug Post? [duplicate]
In my career, I have used a variety of issue tracking systems to post bugs. I have written a small article on what should be present ideally in a bug post ...
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Testing phase in the development
In my firm we have the practice that the test phase is made by the same people who develop the software and you are responsible for what the client does.
The organization has 2-3 software packages ...
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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 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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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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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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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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Is there a test management tool that I can associate tests with multiple projects?
I am looking for a test management tool (mainly for manual testing) that would allow me to associate tests to multiple projects.
We are a consulting firm that has many clients with different ...
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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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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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Alternatives to HP Quality Center for small business
Which are the alternatives today? Not only freeware, but tools affordable for a development team of 3-5 men.
I like the structure and flexibility of HP QC, so a similar tool would be nice to have.
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Are there ready solutions for saving robot framework test results into a database?
I like the level of details and more or less how they look like — report.html and log.html files created as a result of selenium/robot tests run. What I don't like is if I run pybot several times ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Test Result Management and Reporting tool
I'm looking for a some sort of management/reporting tool that collects the results of tests, stores them for reporting, then lets users generate reports based on those tests.
We have numerous test ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to change status of all test cases in QC test lab
In QC, How to change status of all test cases(including all steps) together.
I need to make a large set of test cases "pass" in one go, hope there would be some query which can do this.
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Applying Agile methodology - Testing /QA in Infrastructure Projects
What advice do you have for promoting Agile methodology in delivering Infrastructure projects.
Can this be done to good advantage for Quality assurance purposes or are infrastructure projects too ...
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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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How to export test cases from test plan in QC
We use QC for test management tool in our project. Usually we write test cases & test steps in spreadsheets and load into QC using 'Export to QC' excel add-in. We have a set of test cases already ...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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How far would you go in ETL and data warehouse testing?
Recently I've been testing on an ETL/Data warehouse project and the strategy I took was to work very closely with the business and leverage their knowledge to come up with all the weird and wonderful ...
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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 ...
