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My favorite answer here: it depends. As Phil said, each company handles things differently.
As a thumbnail guide, most of the job ads I've seen treat 1-2 years experience as a junior role, where there's likely to be a fair amouont of guidance needed. 3-5 is usually seen as an intermediate level, where the tester is largely self-guided and is starting to ...
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Title is not relevant with respect to long term career goals. Your question is about different career path - Being an Individual Contributor Vs Being a Manager.
The goals and expectations are different for both the roles.
Answer to your question - You grow up in your role based on your experience, contributions, taking up more responsibilities, ...
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Depend on industry, domain and whether companies give out titles or not
Some companies will have a rigid structure where you need X years before you get a title change
I've known 'test managers' who have 2 years or less experience and you can find people who've worked for many years who are happy just to be called testers
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Have you had a look at Enterprise Tester? It integrates strongly with JIRA and would allow you to do exactly what you are looking to do. All of your main tests (as in the example above) could be stored in the test library and then run in separate execution sets (test 1 - text x), giving you different permutations of the single master test.
I would ...
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I can't speak to JIRA or Zephyr, but my experience with TestLink is that you can define environments and easily copy tests - or nest test suites indefinitely deep.
I'd suggest you rethink some of your layering: for instance, with the example you've given, look at a test suite for environment with the following structure:
Feature X Test Suite
Windows Test ...
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It depends on the test framework you are using. The frameworks I know allow you to define your own assertions. With that, you could define a time based assertion like assertSpecifiedBefore(<specification>, <date>), which checks the last modification date of the specification is not newer than the date of test creation (<date>).
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Take a look at Microsoft Test Manager. Although not dependent on .net, it is fully integrated with Team Foundation System - so if you're not using TFS for work item management / scrum process - it will not work for you.
It does allow you to define standard and custom relationship and you can create your own transitions to invalidate tests if that is what ...
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The short answer
You've been tricked into asking the wrong question by a process that is not designed to actually provide you any guidance your day-to-day tasks. See the pithy Q&A on the Programmers site for a pragmatic take on this:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/175393/iso-12207-verification-of-integration-and-unit-test-validation
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