Questions tagged [test-management]
Use for questions about managing the test process, including organizing test cases and test results.
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Should Software Testers say that functionality is "working fine" or should they say that "it seems/appears to working fine or looks good"?
As a blackbox tester, while giving my testing status to the management, i usually refrain from saying that a particular feature, enhancement of defect is "working fine" and say that it seems/appear to ...
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How to manage test automation project with agile methodology when we have no control over the software we are testing
A team is developing software and testing it using a dummy back end. That team is not allowed to have access to the real system for testing (politics), so my team is testing it with the real back end. ...
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Test Planning of a new project before coding starts
I have some experience (less than two years) as a Java developer but relatively new in Testing (experience of 3-4 months in Manual Testing). I have been assigned role of a Test Manager for a new ...
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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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Testing NOSQL DB's like distributed Cassandra
Has anybody worked on testing Cassandra DB which is a NOSQL distributed DB?
What are the important things to be taken into account while doing this?
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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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Is it a good idea to use a GitHub repo to track test cases?
I'm trying to get my team to standardize on a tool to manage and keep track test cases. Currently we have a bunch of documents in Google docs or other formats such as Confluence and the main ...
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What can be done if requirements are changing continuously in Agile?
If requirements are likely to change frequently during development. Although a complete change in requirement is possible, most of the time, it is the technical details that are subject to change. e.g....
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When does the testing phase start in a project
When a new project starts in an organization, when does the testing role come in? Is it at the same time as the development stage, or later?
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How to prevent cheating by manual testers?
I'm the guy who is motivated to bring some quality assurance into our team. The problem is, that our developers very often hate testing and even if they have a test protocol, not all of them are ...
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What approaches in testing could be suitable, when team doesn't get enough requirements?
So, situation is quite tough. As a test-manager, I have a need to create an approach when the team has a situation: when requirements and specifications are not accomplished and don't satisfy the ...
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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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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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When writing automation, is programming required? If so, at what level?
I'm planning to make STQA as my career option.
I don't like programming at all however I'm good in manual testing and I have knowledge of understanding code(I do write code sometimes)
But in the long ...
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Different testing approaches for different teams?
I'm responsible for introducing QA to two teams in the same company (let's call them A and B). None of them had any systematic QA before.
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How to implement qa test process for large scale application?
There is a large scale application with thousands of functional points and which never had any QA team or person. So when a QA person or team starts working with this type of product what should be ...
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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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How to establish better tracking of escaped bugs?
At my company, we don't have good tracking for escaped bugs (or awareness of in QA a lot of the time) once releases go to prod.
When the users find bugs they have a tendency to go straight to the ...
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How do I deal with poorly documented tests?
I work in a big multinational company. There are too many testers in my company whose test cases (i.e. test steps) are unclear & are riddled with grammatical errors. Many of these testers are ...
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Is there a test management tool that I can associate tests with multiple projects?
I'm looking for a test management tool (mainly for manual testing), that would allow me to associate tests with multiple projects.
We're a consulting firm that has many clients with different ...
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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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Test Management Tools and automated tests - how to integrate the two?
I’m desperately looking for a test management tool that fully supports automated tests. As this sounds simple, I still fail to do so.
We have a bunch of automated tests, which are run as part of our ...
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Resources on implementing a well-balanced test pyramid
The test pyramid is a concept developed by Mike Cohn, described in his book "Succeeding with Agile". Basically, end-to-end tests (often called UI tests) go across all the layers of the application, ...
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How to handle client if you found a high severity defect on the release date?
Suppose the product/application has to deliver to the client at 5.00 P.M, at that time you or your team member caught a high Severity defect at 3.00 P.M (Remember the defect is high severity), but the ...
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Dealing with Failures after testing?
How do you mentally deal with this? For example im testing on a "Virtual" Environment of the customers set up....but a lot of things are simulated either due to not having the equipment etc...
When ...
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How to avoid duplicated bug reports, described from different user perspective?
We get a lot of bug reports that ends up as the same bug, but are described through the eyes of a different user.
For example one can see a device has crashed, the other sees communications loss and ...
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Are there specific coding guidelines for test automation?
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Currently we are trying to find more ways to write better code. Of course, this does not exclude our automated test cases. We are already testing in the dev environment with SonarCube and ...
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Should only Software Testers be blamed for serious production defects?
I work as QA engineer whose responsibility is primarily testing the functionality of a financial web application and database testing to some extent.
I have miss some critical defects in the past ...
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Test management product recommendation
I am looking for a test management product to structure our current manual testing. What I would like to it handle is:
recording of test cases, including parametrised ones;
historical analysis of ...
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Difference between Test case, Test specification, Test procedure and Test design?
I have researched this question on the web, but still don't understand the difference clearly.
please help! thanks.
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How to manage a lot of automated test cases
We are a team of 8 QA Analysts. We have automated more than 3,000 test cases for our application. As this number grows bigger and bigger, we are having issues controlling tests that are already ...
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Is it effective to have the tester of the software also be the business analyst?
I work as a business analyst leading the charge on a medium sized internal software project. It's my job to create the requirements, design the UI, write the functional specs, work with the ...
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Adding tests to a half-finished project
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We are a small dev team in a larger org. We have no testers allocated to us. We have had our backs against a wall for five months developing something as quickly as possible. In that time, ...
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Components of a Test Plan document?
What are the most important components/parts of a well-written test plan document for a testing project. Consider you are testing a Financial web app.
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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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QA Manager with no programming background looking to self-educate in SQE
I am a SQA professional with 15 years of experience. My industry experience is in games and in social network mobile platforms. I'm a very accomplished team leader and mentor, with more than a small ...
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What should senior QA know to transition to a Test Manager position?
I am looking to transition to a test manager role and I'm up for an interview.
Been doing test automation for more than 2 years, being QA lead at a startup where I initiated and executed QA process, ...
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Mathematical / statistical relationship between tests and bugs?
As project manager, I would like to convince higher management to invest more time for development of unit tests for existing methods. My understanding is that unit testing is foundation/pre-req for ...
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How to assess QA employee performance? [closed]
I often hear people talking about about Performance Metrics and Key Performance Indicators, but how to define quality engineering productivity exactly? What is it and how to measure? And what are some ...
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What is Scenario Testing and how to create complex test scenario's?
Is there any general approach or methodology to create complex user scenarios for any application or is it completely context-driven.
Are there some general test ideas/patterns/strategies to create ...
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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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What test management system should I use?
There must be many questions like this on the site but I have some unique requirements that affect my choice of test management / QA process management system. This is for managing the test cases and ...
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Zephyr vs Xray vs TestRail
We are thinking of implementing a test management tool for our test cases which are currently in Excel sheets. So far we have zeroed in on these three tools. Some of the features we are looking for ...
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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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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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Any tricks to using Microsoft Word to build cross-referenceable requirements statements in test plan documentation?
I'm in the process of updating document templates for a customer. Part of the documentation template stack are the usual QA items: Requirements (RS), Architecture (ADD), Test Plan (TP) and Test Report ...
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TestLink: How to copy test cases from one Testsuite to another Testsuite in Same Testplan
I have a testsuite A in which I have 6 test cases, and I want to copy it to testsuite B in the same Test Plan TS_1 in Same project 'X'.
First I Exported the test cases in XML format and then tried to ...
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How to test a system alone with very little experience?
I have little experience with testing and I'm being hired to work on a team where I am the only tester. I'm struggling to find the best approach for the process. Being alone should I write down a test ...
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Quality assurance when people's lives are at stake
We are currently working in an insurance claims processing space and even though we have high quality standards, testing and quality assurance overall has always been, honestly speaking, a supporting ...
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