Test management is the process of organizing and maintaining tests. Contrast with [tag:team-management].
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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 ...
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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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How do you track Exploratory Testing in SilkCentral?
According to the marketing materials for SilkCentral, they support tracking your exploratory testing. I can find nothing to support this claim. I have done the following:
Searched their help files
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Tools for tracking automated tests
I have used STAF/STAX in the past, and liked the way that information was tracked in the tests.
I'm currently investigating Technologies to tie together a few tools that use XML-RPC, and am ...
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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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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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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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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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What is customer focus testing and how do I implement it?
I am working in a project as a tester in which I have to do the Customer Focus Test (CFT). But I have no idea on how to do a CFT. Can anybody explain me?
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Tracking manual test cases which are automated
My question is intended to those QA shops which follow the paradigm of writing manual tests and automating them. Though I know that many QA shops don't agree to this paradigm at all.
Given the ...
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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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What should be the critieria for the selection of new feature test cases to be moved into build acceptance test suite?
I am working on a project to move new feature test cases to build acceptance test suite. Later on I will also be selecting which test cases should be moved to regression suite.
While I was selecting ...
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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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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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What type of testing should I be starting with for a big PHP site?
My title explained it all. I have a site to be tested which has almost 100 million lines of codes. This site hasn't been tested yet. I don't know what type of testing should I start with. Should I ...
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How do you organise and manage testing charters?
There appear to be very few tools out there specifically aimed at managing charters for exploratory testing sessions. If you're using SBTM or TBTM, how do you manage your charters?
Some of the ...
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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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What are useful integrations between TCM, Defect Tracker, Source Control and Project Management software?
My company is looking for a new defect tracking tool. One of the issues I have with the old tool and with the current direction things are going in the search for a new tool is that we have ...
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Keeping automation code away from application source code
Disclaimer: this question is not related to - "Test cases in source code"
I am working on a super fast development environment where manual test cases were given no importance (thankfully things are ...
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What testing procedures/software would you recommend?
My office doesn't currently have any kind of automated testing or anything that runs on our web site updates prior to release. We really need something. I'm not entirely sure what options are ...
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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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What test management tool to manage Cucumber tests?
In my company we have our tests specified in Gherkin (Cucumber), and we use Jenkins to schedule the execution of these tests.
We have the need of a management tool, where we can associate the tests ...
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Test cases in source code
Will it be a good practice to have test cases stored along with the source code in a file or within the source code comments itself? Few months back, I met a programmer from a big corporation who ...
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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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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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Good resources for building a QA team
Our corporation has, up until this point, largely lacked a 'quality mentality' of any kind. From no testers, they went to two testers - but 5 or 6 product teams still rely on a mix of developer 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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Is there some software to document the results of functional software testing?
Can anyone recommend some software that can be used to document the results of functional software testing?
This is not at developer level, it is for testers to follow documented procedures/scripts ...
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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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Best article/site to describe “Software Testing as a Service” concept and suggest comparable metrics
My team (40+ QA Engineers) executes functional, integration and automation testing services for a large customer.
We are not developing products, only test them.
We test various applications built by ...
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How to transfer Test Cases from one TFS2010 server to another
We have two TFS servers, one we use for testing the output of our developers, and one we use for testing features in TFS. The main problem with this is that it means I have to create new test cases to ...
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What is the relation between development hours and testing hours?
Some say that testing hours should be less than development hours when estimating a development project. But I don't fully agree with this. (take an example of web application with shopping cart).
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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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What is the best way to report test results?
The testing department is new at my company so I am trying to establish some test reporting policies.
We are starting out by develping a suite of regression tests which will be good for the long term ...
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Tester Versus Test cases written by the tester [closed]
I have always believed that a great tester is one whose test cases help in discovery of a lot of bugs in the product and not one who finds a lot of bugs in a product.
In otherwords a team or a ...
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Advice when putting together a cost benefit analysis when considering changing defect tracking systems
we use a homebaked defect tracking system in my org. As a QA I have worked in various different organisations previously and find the current in-house solution to be sub par. I initially started to ...
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What's the recommended practice for separating unit tests from integration tests for automated testing?
On a project I've been working on, we've been steadily increasing the code coverage through tests. Some of these tests were done as integration tests, and some as unit tests. The integration tests can ...
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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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What criteria do I apply to a highly complex development project to warrant getting “real world” data?
Both the product I used to work on and the one I'm working on now have a fairly large and complex matrix of possible configurations, work-flows, and data scenarios. The one product had, no joke, ...
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Any good open source test management tools ?
I am thinking of developing some test management tools, to sit alongside the open source automation tools that I currently use. Primarily for recording manual and automated tests, results and ...
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what should I do if my stability tests cycle is longer than the release cycle ?
Our long term stability test cycle takes about two weeks to complete, during this time another release (sometimes two) is being released.
What should I do ?
The test cycle can't be shortened, and we ...
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What are guidelines to use for exit criteria when releasing?
When I am in ship mode I normally apply a set of criteria before I will "Ship". They do vary, however they are typically along the lines of the following:
Zarro Boogs (Zero active issues). This ...
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Is testing a product your company uses different than a product shipped to customers ?
Being in the embedded world I have always tested products that goes to OEM's or end clients, I have never tested a product that my company really use.
Besides the fact that you can use and feel the ...
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Difference between “Testing Behaviour” and “Test Case”
I'm new to software testing and would like to know the difference between "test case" and "testing behavior".
For example, a registration form on the web has the following fields:
-Name:
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When is it OK not to have dedicated testers/QA team?
It just came into my mind that there are no dedicated QAs in stackexchange team.
Since they are indeed making an awesome product, I wonder when does the absence of dedicated quality assurance people ...
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What are the challenges around the integration of Manual and Automated Tests?
This is more a request for your professional opinion than a question...
We are seeing how test automation is spreading to more and more organizations. This in itself is a good thing, but at the same ...
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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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reporting cumulative test results
Wondering if anybody else is using this way to report test results.
Some of the projects in the company I work for report test results on a cumulative basis, meaning that a test that passed once is ...
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What the most efficient way of testing cross platform (i.e. iOS and Android) applications?
I work on several projects were the client wants basically the same application implemented in both iOS and Android. At the end of the day, you have to test both - they are distinct pieces of ...
