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In TDD, do tests need to be automated?
My manager's manager (... and his manager, and everyone else who wears a suit) at my firm is talking about how we really need to transition to TDD because it's better than what we're doing now. ...
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Layered Architecture of Test Automation Software
I was introduced to a 5-layer-model for GUI test automation frameworks, that was considered common knowledge. But I would be interested in a source describing this model. The layers are the following:
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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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Will the new ISO/IEC 29119 Software Testing standard work with agile methodologies like Scrum?
I somehow stumbled across some references to the new ISO/IEC 29119 Software Testing standard that is currently draft stage (apparently).
I have not seen the details of this new standard, however I ...
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Testing interactions with external systems
I'm trying to find a way to test the interactions of our platform with external servers, like Twitter, for example.
On our online photo sharing application, we have, for example features which let ...
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Estimating a testing project
How do you estimate a testing project? What are the things to be take care of while estimating the time for a testing project ?
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Test Automation for different Locale?
I have begun with automation for a product which is in one language and soon to be ported in another. The only good thing is - Test Automation is just begun.
So there are two things which worry me - ...
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How to assure quality when you don't have dedicated testers?
If you're a programmer working alone, or with a couple other programmers, and you don't have dedicated testers, the programmers have to make up the difference.
Obviously, even when you have testers, ...
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How do I download a file using Selenium's WebDriver?
Basically I want to at least check that a download-able file exists / download link works, and preferably get stuff like the file size too.
Here's an example:
link = ...
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XSS/CSRF security testing
I'm a Java Automated tester for a website built with GWT. My bosses now want me to specialize in security testing. The problem is that nobody in the company knows anything about security testing, ...
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How can I spoof HTTP request data while testing?
I'm testing a Windows desktop application, that requests data from a server during certain operations. I want to make sure the application can handle all possible responses, including bad ones.
What ...
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Problem with IE9 security certificate when accessing HTTPS URLs using Selenium 2 WebDriver
I have some Selenium 2 WebDriver test cases for Firefox and Internet Explorer 9. When I access HTTPS URLs on IE9 (Windows 7 64bit) I get:
There is a problem with this website's security ...
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How to deal with testers who do more than test
In my firm, we don't have testers, exactly. We have analysts who translate business requirements into specifications. (Think the guy from Office Space, except these guys actually provide some value. ...
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What are some tools for fuzz testing?
Fuzz Testing as defined by Wikipedia is:
a software testing technique, often automated or semi-automated, that involves providing invalid, unexpected, or random data to the inputs of a computer ...
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What are the pros and cons of a testing team having a lead vs having a manager?
Given that a lead (at least in my employer's view) would be a highly technically experienced person who also does administrative duties and a manager would be more experienced with management and less ...
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Maintaining automation framework for different browsers like IE and FF
How to maintain automation framework for different browsers like IE and FF?
In my current set up, I maintain two different configuration properties files, one with xpath locators that FF supports ...
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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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Android application testing
I have been working as Android developer and been presenting about Android testing with the main SDK tooling, Robotium and Robolectric and running builds on Hudson. It looks like there is a lot of ...
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How do you provide proper tests when there is little documentation
I've worked for companies that have little documentation for their applications, and most of it is probably comments in code.
How is a person, who is placed in the quality assurance department, ...
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Fitting regression testing in a Agile/ Scrum development cycle
What is the best way to fit regression tests into a Agile/ Scrum development cycle?
I've been working as the sole QA person in a 4 person Scrum team developing a new web client in jQuery. I am ...
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How can I report coverage on an n-dimensional test matrix?
I have a test matrix for my product's installation, which is n-dimensional, where n is about 11 or 12 at this point. For instance, the OS is one dimension, and the DB is another, and the Reporting ...
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Alternatives to Session Tester for recording exploratory test session results
I'm interested in hearing suggestions for ways of recording exploratory test session notes. We currently use a mixture of Session Tester and a wiki for recording test notes.
I like many things about ...
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What should you look for in a testing manager?
In some organizations, individual contributors have the opportunity to interview their prospective manager. What should testers look for in a testing manager?
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Good resources for traditional testers adapting to an Agile environment
I haven't experienced a transition from waterfall to Agile myself - I worked for companies using Prince2, waterfall approaches to managing projects, and then I got a job working for a company using ...
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Copying Production Data to a QA Environment
Many companies have a match of their production platform available in a QA environment, with the only difference being that the QA environment connects to QA datasources (which generally contain fake ...
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Best free (or very cheap) automation tool for Windows GUI testing?
I used to use vTask Studio, but it seems they've abandoned it. No updates in almost a year.
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How do you calculate the number of virtual concurrent users to use in a load test given data on actual site traffic?
When working on performance testing, one of the problems I've faced is trying to translate real-world web application traffic to simulated traffic.
A practical example is for an eCommerce site. ...
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What is best practice for test failures that have a low priority fix?
If I have a test that fails due to a known bug, but that bug is deemed lower priority to fix than other work, what should be done with the test?
I can think of 2 options:
Leave the test in the test ...
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What bug statistics are most useful? Why?
One of the managers at my company recently suggested that we should add a field in jira to track the number of times a bug gets reopened. I thought that it wasn't a very useful thing to keep track of ...
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Compare screenshots of rendered web pages
In my team, we use Selenium for automation of functional testing. We also do a lot of manual regression testing to make sure the appearance of the rendered web pages is ok. I would like to develop a ...
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Testing Unfamiliar Software
One thing I've picked up about testing software is to think about the software from the user perspective, and to sometimes "use" the software the way a "normal" user would. However, what if the ...
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Testing with no QA team in an agile development environment
I'm currently working on a small team of a few developers, but even a small team of productive developers can develop a lot of functionality in one iteration (2 weeks in our case). We don't have a QA ...
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How is Selenium different from other GUI automation tools?
I have used WatiN and WebAii but I have limited experience with Selenium. How does Selenium differ from these other tools?
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What techniques are available to determine which browsers to test?
When websites being deployed to the internet are about to go live, the age old question always comes up. "Which browsers should I test?"
I am not asking that question because it will soon become ...
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Data generation for QA tests
This question is kind of general and not very specific.
We have a Java project that uses Oracle database. We are currently using SoapUI tool for the QA tests. Each test needs some data to exist on the ...
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Tools for testing iPhone apps
I was wondering if there any automation tools out there that can help with the process of testing an iPhone application on the device itself and not on a simulator.
Ideally, it would have simulating ...
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Why Isn't SilkTest More Common?
The title says it all. I've been using SilkTest for about a year now in my current role. It wasn't my choice to use, and I've never used it, or even heard of it, before this role. There are definitely ...
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How can I better educate testers about context driven testing?
One of the more interesting dichotomies for testing is the contrast between trying to get standardisation across individual testers vs. applying context driven techniques that allow testers to apply ...
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Fundamental Requirements For an Entry Level QA Engineer
My intention is for this to be a Community Wiki. Being that I have not been granted the power to make this a Community Wiki, I ask that someone who does have the power make it one before it gets ...
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Abuse cases and misuse cases
Are abuse cases and misuse cases for security the same?
From what I have read in various sites, they appear to be same, but no where is it mentioned that they are same.
Please clarify my doubt.
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How do I tune the probabilities in a Markov chain based load test to produce specific hit rates?
I am writing a load test for a web application. I have a few month's worth of access logs that tell me relative hit rates of various URLs. However, the access logs do not contain enough information ...
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What goes in a Testing playbook?
The concept of the Testing Playbook has been recently added to the list of possible tools in your Context-Driven toolset. The Playbook has been described as being similar to the list of plays that a ...
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Good Grep Tools for Windows
We're looking for a Windows based tool to help us grep our apache & JBoss logs.
We have access to the unix boxes & are generally comfortable with the grep command, but because we don't use it ...
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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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Why should I move to Selenium 2 from Selenium 1?
What are the real benefits of using Selenium 2 instead of Selenium 1? I've read several posts related to new version but didn't get what are the advantages of Selenium 2.
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Is jQuery faster than CSS/Xpath selectors for IE 8.0 in Selenium1?
I am planning to run my existing Selenium 1.x tests in IE 8.0.
After checking few blogs and reading this, I tried to run my tests using jQuery locators with the method mentioned here. My tests uses ...
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How do I start the Internet Explorer WebDriver for Selenium in Python?
I had a devil of a time figuring this out. It wasn't documented on the web anywhere I could find. I ended up reading the webdriver init.py to find out.
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Software testing: a first step to development?
I've been testing Ubuntu daily builds for QA since last month. I wasn't too confident in learning development yet, because I didn't feel familiar with encountering a bunch of code. But I want to ...
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How to create a 'quality-centric culture' within a team/organization?
I have recently talked to the head of the quality department of another company and they struggle with the problem that the developers still think quality is actually the QA's job. They work in ...
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What Are Some Examples of Why Explicit Sleep Statements Are Bad
I've read various places that explicit sleep statements are a bad practice in automated tests, even if I've used them occasionally. They can be annoying (creating unnecessary waiting in tests) but I ...
