Test management is the process of organizing and maintaining tests. Contrast with [tag:team-management].
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 ...
